I finally caved in, and started renting a garage space 200m from the apartment. It costs 50 per month, with unlimited electricity. This solved my range anxiety issues permanently. I am limited to 8Amp charging, but that is OK, I only need this space once or twice a week. I should have just done this from the start
Now I can start to experiment with the timers properly before going on a long trip!
Oh, and here is a snip of a LeafSpy screenshot, showing the consumption during prewarming.
On 21*C, with fanspeed on 2, it makes the cabin nice and warm in a matter of minutes. Consumption hovers between 1500-1800W in this state. Green is going in, red out.
With the 16A charger (3300W), you can charge the battery and still preheat the cabin. Awesome!
With a 8A charger (1600W), if you preheat, all electricity will be pulled from the battery, and the charger barely keeps up replenishing it.
Some people on the nissanleaf forums have even reported SoC dropping a few % when preheating, this is probably only in USA where they have only 110V, and a normal L1 charger would only output 1000W+-200W. Thanks EU for 240V
RikH said:
Hi Dala,
Why is it that you don't have an outlet at your apartment? Is it because you rent it electricity included? In that case I guess you bet nobody noticed you where charging you car in stead of preheating cause many Finnish ICE cars have electrical heaters as well.
Yeah, no parking spaces available, need to get on a multi-year waiting list for the apartment. Workplace also told me to wait for 2022, when they complete the new facilities. LOL
Menno said:
Anyone thought to make new battery block out of 18650 or 20700 recycled batteries. I like the idea to do an Leaf with bad battery and build it with 20700 cells of which I got heaps and love their output.
That would theoretically work, but the currents involved would limit you to only using new cells for safetys sake. Since you have no control of charge/discharge currents. Also the shunts are so shitty, so a change in chemistry would be more noticeable. Maybe if you replace all cells with 18650 it would work better.