Super to see and hear you back Jake. I look forward to hopefully more of your content. A great way to judge your car's position is suspend a cork, on a string, from the ceiling to just touch your windscreen, just in front of your eyes, at the distance you want. You can always test it with a flick from your screen wiper.
Not sure on the Leaf but my model 3 can use Octopus Intelligent with a 3pin plug as the car/app controls the charge. Gives me 7.5p rate and around a minimum of about 55 miles a night but often more as they give bonus time as well. More than enough for me and I think most. Saves the roughly £1000 of a charger install. It would take me years to break even on the cost of the charger.
Had our Leaf since 2017 and its an old one with 24kwh battery. Never worried about all thqt charging to 80% malarkey and our battery SoH is around 75%, its done close to 100k miles with no hiccups. Never ran out of charge (got close once 😂 - learnt from that!) I'm getting about 70miles range from mine on a good day, drops to about 60 miles when the weather is crap. Love the preheating and the amount of money we've saved must be enormous. Enjoy the car, lovely colour! That autopilot thingy is useful on long motorway journeys and does actually mean you get to your destination less tired. But each to their own. Nice to see you back btw.
I had the roof of my red Leaf wrapped in gloss black. It really sets it off, IMO. I hope you enjoy driving your Leaf as much as I have mine over the last, almost, 3 years. :)
Hi. I’ve owned 4 EV’s now, over the last 4 years the charging network has expanded massively. I’ve done 500 mile trips in my old 34kWh E-Golf with 4 Rapid charger stops on route with no charging speed drop. Egolf has no thermal management like the leaf. My current MG5 61kWh I’ve had for 13 months now 16k miles 99% charged at home with a 7kW charger. According to my services battery health is still at 100%. I also use it to power my home regularly. Over the 16k miles I have saved £2700 over diesel cost.
Great to see you back again Jake. Thank you for the overview of the Leaf. One of the few electric cars I’ve test driven and I was impressed. The regenerative braking and space in the back seats stood out in particular. Hope you get on well with it, looks a good buy
We had a Nissan Leaf for 2 years. One of the first things I did was to drive from Germany to England and back for a Weekend. We switched to a ID3 but stil fond memories of the Leaf. One of the negative points with the Leaf was the ChaDeMo charger, as this is not very widespread compared to CCS and thus a limiting factor for long journeys due to availability. Is ChaDeMo more prevalent in England?
House seems to be looking nice Jake. As for the car , you need to dump whatever you have been told or think you know about fast charging damaging batteries as you are very mistaken. You will have no issues using fast chargers while you are out and about on longer journeys. Use your charger at home overnight to charge fully and charge out and about on fast chargers on your IKEA trips between 20 and 80 % .. it's pointless going above that as the charge speed drops dramatically once you get to 80% .. and in fact the battery likes to be at least decent temperature before you start charging to get the better speeds. If it does get too hot , the car will simply drop the charging speed. I know people that have exclusively fast charged on public chargers and have done 100-150k plus mileage and never once slow home charged .. I exclusively use public fast chargers with my i-pace as I can't charge at home and have no battery issues. There is a lot of wrong information being spread around about EV charging and it's not helpful at all. Good luck with the car mate 👍
we have identicle car. same colour same year. we love it. never fast charged it. only ever charged with nissan supplied charger to 100% everytime. car has lost no range and has cost us just one wiper blade in 4 years. no need to ever service it. just drive it.
Hello Jake thanks for the vid you really helped us to not buy a Nissan Leaf it's just the range thing. My wife has a Hyundai Santa Fe 2.2 diesel she loves the car and will not part with it, the car has 7 seats we have a large family she does do a lot of miles around town she is a mobile hairdresser and only gets about 37mpg. My larger mobility scooter goes in the back so that's handy. We have had it about 4 years and i have been very impressed with the Hyundai so I purchased her a second car. I purchased the Hyundai i40 tourer it's the 1.7tdi it does about 65 mpg it was top of the range full leather lovely big boot she forgets she has to put diesel in it, BUT she still prefers to drive the Santa Fe. We're planning on going to Scotland in the next couple of weeks and she does do long journeys as well, I do keep my eye on the EV vehicles I've been watching RUclips about the solid state batteries anyway keep your vids going. PS my largest mobility scooter can do over 30 miles on a charge at a blistering 10mph.
My wife has the same car, we've had no problem with it in the 4 years of owning it. Charges well overnight on slow charge. The charger door lock is on the right of the steering wheel. Nice to see you back! Also, drive with the ECO off and let the car do the work. It'll put some charge back on the battery too. Horrible marketing ploy by Nissan not to add an alternator to this car!
Why on earth do they not have dynamos fitted to the wheels? You'd have endless range! But I suppose there's no fuel or energy tax to be harvested from such technology?
Jake can you please do an update vlog, I've always enjoyed your house progress and interests, and I've always loved the centre parks vlogs in particular. Your videos genuinely bought some cheer on a monotonous day and I really miss them.
😭 I will come back one day, I promise! I hope you're doing well. I highly recommend you check out Atomic Shrimp. His content is far more interesting than mine ever was 😃
Good for you! I also bought a used 2020 40kwh model 3 months ago. I got lucky and had already installed level 2 charging for the previous EV I owned and the model that I purchased had the fast charging option so it came with the 30 amp evse which hooked right up to the NEMA 15-20 outlet and could carry the proper current so it worked out great. The Leaf is a great car and I'm just sure you're going to love it.
So it's still cheaper to run than EV than diesel? I keep reading regular fuel is now cheaper? I use a company provided EV and it has pros and cons, such as very quiet pleasant driving and no gear changes. The downside is obviously having to charge daily and having to plan those charges into my day (I don't use a home charger). Be aware your those two rate tariffs though cheaper at night almost always have a mre expensive day rate to compensate. Nice to see you back!
Tesla model 3 LR does about 280 miles (once a week charger for me/most people) and can be had for around £18,000 now. Way cheaper to charge at home and still cheaper than fuel at Superchargers. Only non Tesla chargers are more expensive.
LEAF is great in the winter. Heated steering wheel, heated mirrors and seats, and good demisting. The range goes down a bit though when you have the AC+HEAT running on a journey, so watch out for that. Cold temperature also raises the internal resistance in the battery so you end up with slightly less capacity available. Just plan that into your range estimates. Every LEAF owner should install Leaf Spy Pro onto their phone and use a dongle to read the information from the car using the app. Gives you lots of information about the battery health, and other data from the car's sensors. Useful when planning a longer journey and need to keep an eye on battery capacity remaining. The range estimate in the car display is not reliable in comparison.
Welcome back and welcome to the world of EV. Don’t forget to charge to 100% and let car switch off charging so that it can balance the battery to full capacity.
charge to 100% is ok, just dont leave it standing at that level for a long time. i have the earlier leaf and love it. i also have a vw camper diesel. anything i buy in the future will be electric.
Last year we got a 12-bar Nissan Leaf from 2014 that had done 60k miles. Treat it right and it will last. As for electricity, we were on a British gas standard tariff at 30p pkwh but they do an ev tariff from 12 to 5am for 10p a kwh so we moved to that (12 till 5 for anything electric not justy a car) . So there are savings to be had if you can change. It can do 90 miles on a full charge in summer but we use it for journeys of 30 miles each way max and it's fine (winter did see a 20% drop overall in the number of miles we got on a charge) with a nice drive. For over 30 mile journeys (like trips to the coast, Scotland, wales etc) we take the old diesel out of mothballs and use that..
Charging to 100% doesn't damage the battery - not on the 3 LEAF's I've owned from 2015 anyway - multiple Rapid charges per day will do though. Yes pressing the charger release button for a couple of seconds will release the cable (been like that since 2010) it's in the Manual 👍
You have picked a great car 👍 it has alot of kit for the price you paid for. I too swapped my lexus hybrid for the 62+kwh Tekna 21 reg, just had it now for one week. I Love the car, it will save me £2200 on petrol+service every year.
I’ve just done the ev move too and absolutely love it. The drive of electric cars is so smooth. Mazda red is the best colour on any car! The don’t fast charge or fill to 100% regularly is a myth it doesn’t make any difference
Good to see a new vid from you after all this time. Interesting to see the costs in the uk. In New Zealand the government has just changed the rules over EVs, and EV owners now need to pay road user charges, and get no rebates when purchasing a new EV. So EV owners have to pay tax for each km they travel ,to pay for the roads. Whereas petrol car owners pay this tax in the fuel cost, so don't need to pay per km. So it doesn't really work out any cheaper to own an EV, and with increasing electricity prices, it will likely be more expensive, especially if using charging stations. WE were going to get an EV, but now will probably get a hybrid or petrol only car.
Some extra notes for you. The button on the roof is to turn off the interior alarm sensor, eg if you leave the dog in the car. The 8 year warranty on the battery is pretty decent but as long it has service stamps should be no issue. Even without them could be fine. The lane warning is a PITA turn it off unless your on the motorway. You can set the heating / cooling on a timer in the binnacle rather than use the app. After the 1st 3yrs the App costs £3 per month to press the heating button & signal the horn.
One thing I will add, British Gas currently do a EV tariff that is fine with your plug in the wall charger. From midnight to 5am it is only 8p per KW. Which probably translates to around 2p per mile.
I have a 40 kWh Leaf in Canada, with the steering on the proper side 😉, I have enjoyed it for 3.5 years. It won’t take long for you to lose the range anxiety and you’ll find the car can go further than you now think.
It's lovely to see you. I will need a minute or a day or a week before I can watch this. I would *never* buy an electric car, though of course I hope for the best for yours. This is coming from someone who's owned a hybrid for 20 years. Buying a new big battery for it costs more than the given value of the car now. And it needs a new battery every four years. It adds up.
Don't worry too much about fast chargers, but try to only 80% when you use them if possible. So on your IKEA trip 115 X 2 = 230 miles. Too far on one charge... but if we divide it by 3... lets call it 80 miles. We can stop and charge to around 80% at around then, it shouldn't take long, pop into ikea, drive back to that charger and top up to the 80% again before driving home. I do a 135 mile trip regularly, it is the only time I slow charge it to 100% before my journey. Just for info, theres a japanese guy who used to do monthly updates fully charging his, he also used to do lots of rapid chargers... he got 200,000 miles out of it in 6 years. I have some experience charging lithium cells, and its a combination of the speed you charge, the speed you discharge and going over about 90% that they start to get hot. Remove one of the three and you will be ok.
Great little video. I've owned an Electric since 2017. The only REAL downside of owning an Electric is all the unsolicited information about the environment you will be barged with.
Its just me but im not comfortable keeping an ev in an integrated garage, especially when charging it, even more especially when charging it with a granny charger
I have owned my 62kw Leaf for a year now and have done 13300 miles and based on my home charging cost of 8.9 pence/ kWh charging only between midnight and 5am has cost me £401.00 It would have cost me £1940.00 in my Peugeot 2008 petrol which did 48 mpg average so I've saved £1538 not to mention no road tax cost.
Where are you getting all this advice about 'what will damage the battery'? Because its utter rubbish do your read the Sun!! However what could damage your car and the garage is that granny charger, I would get the fast charger sorted asap. The only mechanical concerns you should have are the brakes, make sure they service every year, especially if you use the regen braking, because they go rusty. Otherwise enjoy, and please do read the manual.
5:40 disinformation, charging to 100 won't damage the battery but it will slightly increase degrading of total capacity in the battery in modern EVs. So in 10 years you may get 10-15% degrading compared to 5-10%, a non issue to most people who change cars every 5-10 years anyway. The most important thing is to avoid leaving the battery at extremely low or high charge states for extended periods (such as going on holiday). Doing so will increase degrading of the battery. Best to leave it at about 40-60%
Hello, I would like to suggest you acquire a 100 gallon (378.5412 liters) fish tank. Or develop a keen interest in space travel. The general dynamics of "my auto", or "my home paint job", well.... However, the potential to point out the new, the dynamics of "look at this"... Just saying....
a toyota hybrid or lexus hybrid are the best mpg and most reliable, plus the value of the car will stay high when you sell it, not a plug in hybrid, but the ones that charge by itself
Yet more FUD parroted by the blind leading the blind. Batteries are warranted by the manufacturer in most cases for nearly a decade, and are designed to last the life of the car, so the need for replacement by the owner is very unlikely. There are plenty of examples of 10+ year old Teslas and Zoes with 150k+ miles on the clock on original batteries with minimal degradation.
@@MrBinabanana That is true. However you see a lot of Leafs being sold that have a limited range left, and they are not economical to replace, and as a result they sell quite cheaply. This in part is because their range isn't that long to begin with compared to Teslas. However if it was an ICE, the range would not have decreased at all after 15 years, and it could have a decade of life left . The average age of cars in come countries can be about 15 years , and the average age is increasing.
@@home-space Whilst true, the Leaf is not representative of the vast majority of EVs that have been developed and built in the last decade. Their battery chemistry, and electrical and thermal management on the early models wasn't ideal and is known to cause issues with longevity. But look at a Hyundai IONIQ from 2016 with 100k miles on it, however, and you're unlikely to see any appreciable degradation. Some manufacturers implement better battery management than others, but the technology itself can easily outlive the rest of the car when the manufacturers get it right.
Super to see and hear you back Jake. I look forward to hopefully more of your content. A great way to judge your car's position is suspend a cork, on a string, from the ceiling to just touch your windscreen, just in front of your eyes, at the distance you want. You can always test it with a flick from your screen wiper.
Not sure on the Leaf but my model 3 can use Octopus Intelligent with a 3pin plug as the car/app controls the charge. Gives me 7.5p rate and around a minimum of about 55 miles a night but often more as they give bonus time as well. More than enough for me and I think most. Saves the roughly £1000 of a charger install. It would take me years to break even on the cost of the charger.
Nice to see you back.
Had our Leaf since 2017 and its an old one with 24kwh battery. Never worried about all thqt charging to 80% malarkey and our battery SoH is around 75%, its done close to 100k miles with no hiccups. Never ran out of charge (got close once 😂 - learnt from that!) I'm getting about 70miles range from mine on a good day, drops to about 60 miles when the weather is crap. Love the preheating and the amount of money we've saved must be enormous. Enjoy the car, lovely colour! That autopilot thingy is useful on long motorway journeys and does actually mean you get to your destination less tired. But each to their own. Nice to see you back btw.
Hi Jake
Missed you mate. Your gentle humor brings the light in these dark times.
I had the roof of my red Leaf wrapped in gloss black.
It really sets it off, IMO.
I hope you enjoy driving your Leaf as much as I have mine over the last, almost, 3 years. :)
Good to have you back, Sir
Thank you kindly
Hi. I’ve owned 4 EV’s now, over the last 4 years the charging network has expanded massively. I’ve done 500 mile trips in my old 34kWh E-Golf with 4 Rapid charger stops on route with no charging speed drop. Egolf has no thermal management like the leaf. My current MG5 61kWh I’ve had for 13 months now 16k miles 99% charged at home with a 7kW charger. According to my services battery health is still at 100%. I also use it to power my home regularly. Over the 16k miles I have saved £2700 over diesel cost.
Blimey, he's back. And he's mildly worried about a new purchase. So no change there.
As ever Jake very amusing. Oh - and it's red.
Great video. Good to see you back. Look forward to more content from you.
Great to see you back again Jake. Thank you for the overview of the Leaf. One of the few electric cars I’ve test driven and I was impressed. The regenerative braking and space in the back seats stood out in particular. Hope you get on well with it, looks a good buy
My pleasure!
Just bought a nissan leaf 4miles on the clock a techna top range pre reg from nissan 16500 pounds absolutely love it wife loves it no negatives at all
Great to have you have you back here. Great review!!
We had a Nissan Leaf for 2 years. One of the first things I did was to drive from Germany to England and back for a Weekend.
We switched to a ID3 but stil fond memories of the Leaf. One of the negative points with the Leaf was the ChaDeMo charger, as this is not very widespread compared to CCS and thus a limiting factor for long journeys due to availability. Is ChaDeMo more prevalent in England?
House seems to be looking nice Jake.
As for the car , you need to dump whatever you have been told or think you know about fast charging damaging batteries as you are very mistaken.
You will have no issues using fast chargers while you are out and about on longer journeys.
Use your charger at home overnight to charge fully and charge out and about on fast chargers on your IKEA trips between 20 and 80 % .. it's pointless going above that as the charge speed drops dramatically once you get to 80% .. and in fact the battery likes to be at least decent temperature before you start charging to get the better speeds.
If it does get too hot , the car will simply drop the charging speed.
I know people that have exclusively fast charged on public chargers and have done 100-150k plus mileage and never once slow home charged .. I exclusively use public fast chargers with my i-pace as I can't charge at home and have no battery issues.
There is a lot of wrong information being spread around about EV charging and it's not helpful at all.
Good luck with the car mate 👍
we have identicle car. same colour same year.
we love it. never fast charged it. only ever charged with nissan supplied charger to 100% everytime. car has lost no range and has cost us just one wiper blade in 4 years.
no need to ever service it. just drive it.
Hello Jake thanks for the vid you really helped us to not buy a Nissan Leaf it's just the range thing. My wife has a Hyundai Santa Fe 2.2 diesel she loves the car and will not part with it, the car has 7 seats we have a large family she does do a lot of miles around town she is a mobile hairdresser and only gets about 37mpg. My larger mobility scooter goes in the back so that's handy. We have had it about 4 years and i have been very impressed with the Hyundai so I purchased her a second car. I purchased the Hyundai i40 tourer it's the 1.7tdi it does about 65 mpg it was top of the range full leather lovely big boot she forgets she has to put diesel in it, BUT she still prefers to drive the Santa Fe. We're planning on going to Scotland in the next couple of weeks and she does do long journeys as well, I do keep my eye on the EV vehicles I've been watching RUclips about the solid state batteries anyway keep your vids going. PS my largest mobility scooter can do over 30 miles on a charge at a blistering 10mph.
My wife has the same car, we've had no problem with it in the 4 years of owning it. Charges well overnight on slow charge. The charger door lock is on the right of the steering wheel. Nice to see you back! Also, drive with the ECO off and let the car do the work. It'll put some charge back on the battery too. Horrible marketing ploy by Nissan not to add an alternator to this car!
Thanks for sharing
Glad to see you back making videos on RUclips. 🙂
Why on earth do they not have dynamos fitted to the wheels? You'd have endless range! But I suppose there's no fuel or energy tax to be harvested from such technology?
Jake can you please do an update vlog, I've always enjoyed your house progress and interests, and I've always loved the centre parks vlogs in particular. Your videos genuinely bought some cheer on a monotonous day and I really miss them.
😭 I will come back one day, I promise! I hope you're doing well. I highly recommend you check out Atomic Shrimp. His content is far more interesting than mine ever was 😃
I too would be very interested to hear how you are getting on with your EV 😊
you are the best RUclips channel Dr Jake!
Thanks glad to see you are still doing videos.
Really good and informative video. It's great to see you back 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good for you! I also bought a used 2020 40kwh model 3 months ago. I got lucky and had already installed level 2 charging for the previous EV I owned and the model that I purchased had the fast charging option so it came with the 30 amp evse which hooked right up to the NEMA 15-20 outlet and could carry the proper current so it worked out great. The Leaf is a great car and I'm just sure you're going to love it.
I'm just about to get a leaf on Tuesday morning and moving from a diesel nissan juke
So it's still cheaper to run than EV than diesel? I keep reading regular fuel is now cheaper? I use a company provided EV and it has pros and cons, such as very quiet pleasant driving and no gear changes. The downside is obviously having to charge daily and having to plan those charges into my day (I don't use a home charger). Be aware your those two rate tariffs though cheaper at night almost always have a mre expensive day rate to compensate. Nice to see you back!
It’s certainly cheaper if you’re charging at home. Thanks for the heads up re the daytime rates!
Tesla model 3 LR does about 280 miles (once a week charger for me/most people) and can be had for around £18,000 now. Way cheaper to charge at home and still cheaper than fuel at Superchargers. Only non Tesla chargers are more expensive.
LEAF is great in the winter. Heated steering wheel, heated mirrors and seats, and good demisting. The range goes down a bit though when you have the AC+HEAT running on a journey, so watch out for that. Cold temperature also raises the internal resistance in the battery so you end up with slightly less capacity available. Just plan that into your range estimates. Every LEAF owner should install Leaf Spy Pro onto their phone and use a dongle to read the information from the car using the app. Gives you lots of information about the battery health, and other data from the car's sensors. Useful when planning a longer journey and need to keep an eye on battery capacity remaining. The range estimate in the car display is not reliable in comparison.
Welcome back and welcome to the world of EV. Don’t forget to charge to 100% and let car switch off charging so that it can balance the battery to full capacity.
I meant charge to 100% once a month or so.
charge to 100% is ok, just dont leave it standing at that level for a long time. i have the earlier leaf and love it. i also have a vw camper diesel. anything i buy in the future will be electric.
Last year we got a 12-bar Nissan Leaf from 2014 that had done 60k miles. Treat it right and it will last. As for electricity, we were on a British gas standard tariff at 30p pkwh but they do an ev tariff from 12 to 5am for 10p a kwh so we moved to that (12 till 5 for anything electric not justy a car) . So there are savings to be had if you can change. It can do 90 miles on a full charge in summer but we use it for journeys of 30 miles each way max and it's fine (winter did see a 20% drop overall in the number of miles we got on a charge) with a nice drive. For over 30 mile journeys (like trips to the coast, Scotland, wales etc) we take the old diesel out of mothballs and use that..
Charging to 100% doesn't damage the battery - not on the 3 LEAF's I've owned from 2015 anyway - multiple Rapid charges per day will do though. Yes pressing the charger release button for a couple of seconds will release the cable (been like that since 2010) it's in the Manual 👍
I do love your compost buffer
Charge to 100% occasionally for cell balance purposes.
You have picked a great car 👍 it has alot of kit for the price you paid for. I too swapped my lexus hybrid for the 62+kwh Tekna 21 reg, just had it now for one week. I Love the car, it will save me £2200 on petrol+service every year.
I’ve just done the ev move too and absolutely love it. The drive of electric cars is so smooth. Mazda red is the best colour on any car! The don’t fast charge or fill to 100% regularly is a myth it doesn’t make any difference
I'm currently paying £0.00 per kWh for charging at work.
Don't suppose that will last long though!
There you are. Welcome home
Good to see a new vid from you after all this time. Interesting to see the costs in the uk. In New Zealand the government has just changed the rules over EVs, and EV owners now need to pay road user charges, and get no rebates when purchasing a new EV. So EV owners have to pay tax for each km they travel ,to pay for the roads. Whereas petrol car owners pay this tax in the fuel cost, so don't need to pay per km. So it doesn't really work out any cheaper to own an EV, and with increasing electricity prices, it will likely be more expensive, especially if using charging stations. WE were going to get an EV, but now will probably get a hybrid or petrol only car.
Great car sir! I think the Fully Charged Show has a event coming up in your country soon. I'd love to go to one of those!
Great overview of the Leaf. Are you planning on looking into doing Vehicle to Home/Grid with a compatible charger in the future?
Good to have you back! Just a one off or you bringing more content on a regular basis?
Some extra notes for you.
The button on the roof is to turn off the interior alarm sensor, eg if you leave the dog in the car.
The 8 year warranty on the battery is pretty decent but as long it has service stamps should be no issue. Even without them could be fine.
The lane warning is a PITA turn it off unless your on the motorway.
You can set the heating / cooling on a timer in the binnacle rather than use the app.
After the 1st 3yrs the App costs £3 per month to press the heating button & signal the horn.
Just bought a Nissan Leaf n-connecta 74 plate for £16,250, bargain....?
Have you got a spare wheel. I have one to sell.
It’s the same colour as your old carpet. Just kidding, good to see you back sir!
One thing I will add, British Gas currently do a EV tariff that is fine with your plug in the wall charger. From midnight to 5am it is only 8p per KW. Which probably translates to around 2p per mile.
I have a 40 kWh Leaf in Canada, with the steering on the proper side 😉, I have enjoyed it for 3.5 years. It won’t take long for you to lose the range anxiety and you’ll find the car can go further than you now think.
It's lovely to see you. I will need a minute or a day or a week before I can watch this. I would *never* buy an electric car, though of course I hope for the best for yours. This is coming from someone who's owned a hybrid for 20 years. Buying a new big battery for it costs more than the given value of the car now. And it needs a new battery every four years. It adds up.
Don't worry too much about fast chargers, but try to only 80% when you use them if possible. So on your IKEA trip 115 X 2 = 230 miles. Too far on one charge... but if we divide it by 3... lets call it 80 miles. We can stop and charge to around 80% at around then, it shouldn't take long, pop into ikea, drive back to that charger and top up to the 80% again before driving home. I do a 135 mile trip regularly, it is the only time I slow charge it to 100% before my journey. Just for info, theres a japanese guy who used to do monthly updates fully charging his, he also used to do lots of rapid chargers... he got 200,000 miles out of it in 6 years. I have some experience charging lithium cells, and its a combination of the speed you charge, the speed you discharge and going over about 90% that they start to get hot. Remove one of the three and you will be ok.
Great little video. I've owned an Electric since 2017. The only REAL downside of owning an Electric is all the unsolicited information about the environment you will be barged with.
Well said!
Welcome back, doc. I'm waiting for the first nuclear fusion car. Until then, it's petrol & diesel for me.
Its just me but im not comfortable keeping an ev in an integrated garage, especially when charging it, even more especially when charging it with a granny charger
I have owned my 62kw Leaf for a year now and have done 13300 miles and based on my home charging cost of 8.9 pence/ kWh charging only between midnight and 5am has cost me £401.00
It would have cost me £1940.00 in my Peugeot 2008 petrol which did 48 mpg average so I've saved £1538 not to mention no road tax cost.
cool! thanks for the vid.
Good for your usage, going down to Tesco and back 😂😂😂
My wife was just asking about the britisch gentleman with his nice car reviews. This is a very pleasant surprise 😊
😀
Where are you getting all this advice about 'what will damage the battery'? Because its utter rubbish do your read the Sun!! However what could damage your car and the garage is that granny charger, I would get the fast charger sorted asap. The only mechanical concerns you should have are the brakes, make sure they service every year, especially if you use the regen braking, because they go rusty. Otherwise enjoy, and please do read the manual.
5:40 disinformation, charging to 100 won't damage the battery but it will slightly increase degrading of total capacity in the battery in modern EVs. So in 10 years you may get 10-15% degrading compared to 5-10%, a non issue to most people who change cars every 5-10 years anyway. The most important thing is to avoid leaving the battery at extremely low or high charge states for extended periods (such as going on holiday). Doing so will increase degrading of the battery. Best to leave it at about 40-60%
Hello, I would like to suggest you acquire a 100 gallon (378.5412 liters) fish tank. Or develop a keen interest in space travel. The general dynamics of "my auto", or "my home paint job", well.... However, the potential to point out the new, the dynamics of "look at this"... Just saying....
a toyota hybrid or lexus hybrid are the best mpg and most reliable, plus the value of the car will stay high when you sell it,
not a plug in hybrid, but the ones that charge by itself
great vid missed ya
So cool !!
This channel has died a death.
Zero content for months.
Omg jake video !!!
Hi, I was just thinking about you and thought I'd pop into the comment section to wish you and your stunning girlfriend a wonderful Merry Christmas :)
Nice to see you after a while mate, still enjoy playing Lego 😂?
Good Afternoon 🌞 Very Good 👍 Congratulations 🎉 Sooo Nice Sharing Have A Nice Day Greetings ✨
congratulations you just lost 3k in depreciation
@@Ride_Revive please explain
As you do when you buy any car from a dealer. So what's your point?
just wait till the battery need replacing then you will see the real cost of electric cars
They are not economical to replace, so they get sold with limited range left.
Yet more FUD parroted by the blind leading the blind. Batteries are warranted by the manufacturer in most cases for nearly a decade, and are designed to last the life of the car, so the need for replacement by the owner is very unlikely. There are plenty of examples of 10+ year old Teslas and Zoes with 150k+ miles on the clock on original batteries with minimal degradation.
@@MrBinabanana That is true. However you see a lot of Leafs being sold that have a limited range left, and they are not economical to replace, and as a result they sell quite cheaply. This in part is because their range isn't that long to begin with compared to Teslas. However if it was an ICE, the range would not have decreased at all after 15 years, and it could have a decade of life left . The average age of cars in come countries can be about 15 years , and the average age is increasing.
@@MrBinabanana your comment is bullshit plain and simple
@@home-space Whilst true, the Leaf is not representative of the vast majority of EVs that have been developed and built in the last decade. Their battery chemistry, and electrical and thermal management on the early models wasn't ideal and is known to cause issues with longevity. But look at a Hyundai IONIQ from 2016 with 100k miles on it, however, and you're unlikely to see any appreciable degradation. Some manufacturers implement better battery management than others, but the technology itself can easily outlive the rest of the car when the manufacturers get it right.