Do you ship kis to the USA ? This looks like a great project for me and my three sons. We could buy an old Leaf, replace with a larger battery pack and add CCS charging.
Thank you for doing this! Making source code like this available makes life so much easier if you run into problems, or you're running some strange edge-case configuration that wasn't anticipated in the code. I haven't personally used a CAN-bridge in a Leaf, but I've spent a *lot* of time reverse engineering similar things, where source code availability would have saved days of work.
Good call. Home diy EV repair and battery management is very much a community effort. Remember you didn't invent it in a vacuum even if your design is unique. Your worst financial decision was to buy a broken Leaf battery pack.
@@DalasEVRepair You're absolutely right! Over here on O'ahu, the Leaf and the i-MiEV were popular back in 2012. Sadly, I don't personally know any of the drivers of these cars. It would be interesting to find out what they think of their experiences on O'ahu. The longest trip one can take on this island (without turning around and driving back the way one came...) is about 180km. It is a route that goes around the eastern and central part of this island. (The route around the western and central part of O'ahu is blocked by a nature preserve and bird santuary). In 1978, the bicycling portion of the very first Ironman competition we had here was on this central and eastern route. I've ridden this route quite a number of times myself at a very slow, non-racing pace. I haven't owned or driven a car in 10 years, so that tells you something about this island. I wish you all the best in the fight against questionable engineering by the big tech companies. Aloha, my friend.
Dala this is your contribution to the world that will help many fellow leaf owners and ev enthusiasts continue to use their cars and help climate change in the process. It is not a mistake.
I can relate to that. Tried a few closed source projects and then I'm the only one who can help and fix. Now that it's open source you have to make sure that people stop contacting you privately - guess how I know 😉
@@pashko90 yes, attaching a price tag to time helps making people think twice whether they can't just find the info on the internet for free 🙂 and those who decide to pay are very focused and help financial existence of creators
Dala, thanksfor this extremely valuable contribution to the EV community! And frankly I think this decision will be also beneficial in financial terms as it gives your new projects more visibility. Carry on!
Legend! Thanks for doing this. I wonder if it will impact demand and price of the used packs? My brother in law's 24kWh is pretty low range now and would seriously benefit from a 40 or 62 :-)
this is how 3d printers got affordable, the guy that reverse engineered the really expensive $100k 3d printers made his project open source. Now you can buy a 3d printer for $99. Someday we'll look back at this project and think "imagine if we were still at the mercy of dealerships to replace our batteries"
Hi Dala! Thank you for open sourcing your projects! I'm very excited about your CCS conversion! I'm a software engineer myself, but I've not spent much time building ICs and controllers outside of Raspberry Pi & Arduino. I'm personally interested in replacing the Leaf pack with my own LFP cells and BMS. How much effort do you think it would take to accomplish building such a bridge? I would prefer to do this vs adding my own range extending pack in parallel and consuming internal volume and extra weight. Maybe we could work together and open source the project?
My best financial decision was buying a 2014 Nissan Leaf. It had battery issues a week out of warranty and after over a year of back and forth Nissan did the right thing and bought the car back from us under the Texas Lemon law for the price we paid. I wanted another fun car to drive so bought a manual Mazda MX-5 ND2 RF. This is the way. No reason to be chauffeuring a heavy battery around and all the inconvenience it entails.
Thank you for this! I've got a Gen1 Leaf that I'll be hunting for a replacement pack for, for sure - my main concern has been that you or other sources for this sort of converter (can bridge) would be long done before I get around to it. :)
Hello… I agree. You are a true gentleman . Quick question. Can I buy an early Leaf (2012 24Kwh) and modify it to do 2 way charging? I have a barn that I can put PV panels on and then was hoping to use the Leaf as an inexpensive mobile battery pack and drive it the 150m to the house….! Is this something that at least in principle is acheivable…. Regs Rupert
Dala, this may be a stupid question but what do you thibk it would take to use tesla cells in a nissan leaf? Ironically, it's easier to find used tesla cells in the states than finding leaf cells that arent severely degraded.
Hi Dala. Is this flashing process to upgrade to a 40kwh battery or 62kwh? Is it compatible with both or just only one? Thanks in advance for your help!
I am getting ready to purchase my first leaf. A 2011 with 38k miles on it. Battery health is typical for the age but I assume I may be upgrading the battery some day. Do you have a video where you go through all of the steps to upgrade to a better battery? Thanks and have a great day.
So let me understand, can you use this for the Leaf Home Battery conversion that you did the other day? because that was awesome. I would love to do that at my farm. We currently have Lead Acid batteries which don't hold much power to run the pump.
Dala, hello! I bought a bridge 2 can, I flashed it as indicated in the instructions, but the values kW, lbs from 24 and the car aze0 24 did not change, and cells from 40 kW, please tell me what needs to be done so that the car sees the entire capacity of the battery?
@@DalasEVRepair I'm good at circuitry, but it's not my thing to program or rather write firmware. Can I ask you to make a firmware for this bridge? and how much will it be? lbc unit from 40kW is indecently expensive...
@@DalasEVRepair ok thanks will try the 2port can bridge and see if there are any issues the main issue I had with the 3port can bridge was the timer for charging didn't work
Highly appreciate your contribution to Ev community ⚠️ Well done Genius ☘️Your parents and family members must be very proud of you ⚘️⚘️⚘️ The Nikola Tesla of our time 🌍 🌎 🌏 ❤
@@DalasEVRepair was thinking about this.. with some of the newer nissan models coming out with CCS2 are their modules an option? some of the 2021 models must have managed to run into a tree by now :)
@@DalasEVRepair I’m sorry for bothering you, I have another question, dose this board with its normal code have different application or it’s for Battery upgrade also ?
@@ahmadzarara3149 When you buy it, it comes flashed with a mileage spoofer for Mercedes Benz vehicles. Highly illegal piece of kit! After flashing it, it becomes an useful thing that can do battery upgrades:)
Hello Dala, I am from the state of Missouri in the USA. How can I possibly have one of your 40kwh packs shipped to me? I understand I'll have to pay but I've NEVER bought anything as far as your country.
@@DalasEVRepairto bad :( Scraped electric cars have so many electronic parts but no one can give them second life. Is less expensive to buy new models then improve old ones :(
@@DalasEVRepair thanks for your reply, are they known to fail after some time of use?or once you have a working one,it will last the life of the car, I have got mine working now, I believe that it was incorrectly flashed the first time
@@jasong7374 The one I installed on my own car in 2021 is still running great! But having a backup is not a bad idea, they are only 13€. Who knows if it lasts 5-10-15-20years!
@@DalasEVRepair with my install i have solder in plugs on the can wires of the car and the can bridge, and also Carry a spare programmed and tested can bridge in the glove box,so if I have any issues I can change one on the side of the road, probably being more careful than nessary, but this is my first 40kwh upgrade on a 24 aze0 so still learning
Hello, Could you help me with the fact that my car (2017) got a 40kW battery instead of the 24kW one, and since then it doesn't charge above 94%. What is the reason for this? Thank You!
Battery will charge to 92-97% real SOC, that you can see with Leafspy. The dashboard will show 100%. This is due to temperature/voltage diffs/internalresistance. Completely normal, nothing to worry about!
![Nissan Leaf Budget Battery Upgrade [ZE0, 24kWh-30kWh]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1Dwsk9lnr6I/mqdefault.jpg)
![Nissan Leaf Budget Battery Upgrade [ZE0, 24kWh-30kWh]](/img/tr.png)
You're a good person Dala. You're the type of the person the community needs.
Sir, I salute you for taking this principled stand that favors repairability and user servicing.
👍👍👍
Do you ship kis to the USA ? This looks like a great project for me and my three sons. We could buy an old Leaf, replace with a larger battery pack and add CCS charging.
A true engineer, enjoy solving problems rather than making money. Respect~
I don't even work with modifying LEAFs, but I've started supporting you on Patreon just because I want to see more Open Source EV stuff. Thanks!
Appreciate the support! ❤️
Yes same - im not rich enough to give more - just hope dala can go full time youtube on some crazy project's
The CCS mod would be great as all new chargers now seem to only support CCS
Will a CCS to Chademo adaptor do?
ruclips.net/video/wydql2N_F-k/видео.html
Thank you for doing this! Making source code like this available makes life so much easier if you run into problems, or you're running some strange edge-case configuration that wasn't anticipated in the code. I haven't personally used a CAN-bridge in a Leaf, but I've spent a *lot* of time reverse engineering similar things, where source code availability would have saved days of work.
Yes this has been 3 years in the making! 😅
CCS UPGRAGE would be life changing!
Good call. Home diy EV repair and battery management is very much a community effort. Remember you didn't invent it in a vacuum even if your design is unique. Your worst financial decision was to buy a broken Leaf battery pack.
Mahalo! You have struck another blow in the fight for right-to-repair and against the bureaucracy of manufacturers.
So silly that they did not make newer batteries backwards compatible from the start!
@@DalasEVRepair You're absolutely right! Over here on O'ahu, the Leaf and the i-MiEV were popular back in 2012. Sadly, I don't personally know any of the drivers of these cars. It would be interesting to find out what they think of their experiences on O'ahu. The longest trip one can take on this island (without turning around and driving back the way one came...) is about 180km. It is a route that goes around the eastern and central part of this island. (The route around the western and central part of O'ahu is blocked by a nature preserve and bird santuary). In 1978, the bicycling portion of the very first Ironman competition we had here was on this central and eastern route. I've ridden this route quite a number of times myself at a very slow, non-racing pace. I haven't owned or driven a car in 10 years, so that tells you something about this island. I wish you all the best in the fight against questionable engineering by the big tech companies. Aloha, my friend.
I do have to say. This channel has been the BEST source for all things Nissan leaf!!!
Man you're such an altruistic person for doing this Dala, you've gained a patreon supporter
Thank you! 🙏
Legend, support you gave and still give is amazing. You turned my leaf into a nice hot hatch :)
Dala this is your contribution to the world that will help many fellow leaf owners and ev enthusiasts continue to use their cars and help climate change in the process. It is not a mistake.
Well done Dala ! Hope you are successful with your ventures.
Thank You for doing this! There are so many leafs out there with original batteries approaching
I can relate to that. Tried a few closed source projects and then I'm the only one who can help and fix.
Now that it's open source you have to make sure that people stop contacting you privately - guess how I know 😉
I don't mind to pay for consultations.
@@pashko90 yes, attaching a price tag to time helps making people think twice whether they can't just find the info on the internet for free 🙂 and those who decide to pay are very focused and help financial existence of creators
5 Thumbs up from former Leaf driver in Norway. Now you will have time to iron out the CCS upgrade which you can sell for €€€... :)
Dala, thanksfor this extremely valuable contribution to the EV community! And frankly I think this decision will be also beneficial in financial terms as it gives your new projects more visibility. Carry on!
Much love and respect. We’ll be covering this!
Thanks Nikki! 🙏
New cars are so expensive and I love my LEAF...I'd pay a pretty penny for a CCS upgrade! And maybe a solid state battery upgrade in another decade :D
Well done sir! Adapt and live your life!
I want the CCS2 upgrade. Also a charging limiter to charge at max 38Kw/h. Charging the battery at 45kw/h just boils it.
Legend! Thanks for doing this. I wonder if it will impact demand and price of the used packs? My brother in law's 24kWh is pretty low range now and would seriously benefit from a 40 or 62 :-)
Doubt this will do anything with pack prices, but the overall upgrade cost goes down significantly!
Thanks for helping to stamp out information hoarding.
Thanks for watching 😁
this is how 3d printers got affordable, the guy that reverse engineered the really expensive $100k 3d printers made his project open source. Now you can buy a 3d printer for $99. Someday we'll look back at this project and think "imagine if we were still at the mercy of dealerships to replace our batteries"
Well done, brother time is precious and can not be regain.
Thank you very much for this gift Dala!!!!
because you are a researcher and money is not a priority. that's why you're so awesome! 👍👍👍👍👍🇪🇺🇺🇦🕊️
Right on! You rock! You're doing a great thing releasing this.
Kiitos Dala mielenkiintoisista videoista! En ole vielä ostanut sähköautoa, mutta kovasti kiinnostaisi varsinkin näiden videoiden ansiosta!
Kiitos! 🙏
You are a rare Tesla❤ One in a Million!
Thanks a lot Dala...
Legend!
Hi Dala! Thank you for open sourcing your projects! I'm very excited about your CCS conversion! I'm a software engineer myself, but I've not spent much time building ICs and controllers outside of Raspberry Pi & Arduino. I'm personally interested in replacing the Leaf pack with my own LFP cells and BMS. How much effort do you think it would take to accomplish building such a bridge? I would prefer to do this vs adding my own range extending pack in parallel and consuming internal volume and extra weight. Maybe we could work together and open source the project?
That's awesome. I have a leaf power Wall and watch some of ypu videos. Thanks for what ypu do
My best financial decision was buying a 2014 Nissan Leaf. It had battery issues a week out of warranty and after over a year of back and forth Nissan did the right thing and bought the car back from us under the Texas Lemon law for the price we paid. I wanted another fun car to drive so bought a manual Mazda MX-5 ND2 RF. This is the way. No reason to be chauffeuring a heavy battery around and all the inconvenience it entails.
Thanks Dala! Now we just need someone to create 3rd party battery packs so they don't need to be sourced from Nissan or wrecks.
Where have you been? EVs Enhanced announced one forever ago.
Thank you very much for sharing and for all the work you're doing.
Thank you for this! I've got a Gen1 Leaf that I'll be hunting for a replacement pack for, for sure - my main concern has been that you or other sources for this sort of converter (can bridge) would be long done before I get around to it. :)
Thank you for your special contribution to a New low budget electric mobility!
You da man! I really really mean that!
I surely hope that anyone and everyone who uses and benefits from this ‘free!!’ Info will donate a few dollars/Euros to Dala’s EV Repair.
I will try to test it. thanks a lot!!!!
Very Cool!
Fantastic!
Thanks Dala. 🙂👍
Today I happened to see a video of Transport Evolved...
Sounds like you watch a lot of good youtube channels! ;)
Look forward to getting it thanks
You can still charge for support.
You make it free because you are not a money slave. Thank you 🙏
Hey Dala, when I will have finish everything i will send you 1000$ for your amazing work for the community. Thanks you a lot from Canada. - Yann
No please don't, send it to some charity instead 😂
Allright haha will do then @@DalasEVRepair
Well done ❤️💙💚💜
Rent yourself out as an consultant. 😎
amazing!
Amazing
You're a good man, Dala!
Good work
You can charge for support now instead of doing it for free.
Hello… I agree. You are a true gentleman .
Quick question. Can I buy an early Leaf (2012 24Kwh) and modify it to do 2 way charging? I have a barn that I can put PV panels on and then was hoping to use the Leaf as an inexpensive mobile battery pack and drive it the 150m to the house….! Is this something that at least in principle is acheivable…. Regs Rupert
Probably, not something I will develop though! Chademo connector itself costs >1000€ , for that you can almost buy an entire 24kWh battery
Thank you
Thank you 😊🙏
Well you need like 100-160€ of batterys there are better ways Syl SC50 Pouch cell 50Ah - 3.6V 15€ for 1
bless you
Dala, this may be a stupid question but what do you thibk it would take to use tesla cells in a nissan leaf? Ironically, it's easier to find used tesla cells in the states than finding leaf cells that arent severely degraded.
See this: github.com/dalathegreat/Nissan-Leaf-Bruteforce-Upgrade#a-word-of-caution
Hi Dala. Is this flashing process to upgrade to a 40kwh battery or 62kwh? Is it compatible with both or just only one? Thanks in advance for your help!
Not sure yet. This software is only for 2011-2017 LEAFs
@@DalasEVRepair I have a 2012 leaf that is why I asked. So with this flashed PcB I may be able to install a 62kwh battery in my 2012 leaf?
@@jesuskingofkings Yes!
@@DalasEVRepair Great! 👍 God bless you! Have a wonderful day.
@@jesuskingofkings62kwH is the biggest investment. ~10k€ is the price that I know it.
Does this mean I can enhance my existing leaf battery without having to change it , please advise?
No this is for upgrades only!
please please pleas find a way to make a universal ccs upgrade for all chademos not just leaf!
Dala, By open sourcing are you ok with somebody offering a kit either built or parts along with your instructions for sale?
Absolutely!
I am getting ready to purchase my first leaf. A 2011 with 38k miles on it. Battery health is typical for the age but I assume I may be upgrading the battery some day. Do you have a video where you go through all of the steps to upgrade to a better battery? Thanks and have a great day.
Yes, check my older videos, ruclips.net/video/1Dwsk9lnr6I/видео.html
So let me understand, can you use this for the Leaf Home Battery conversion that you did the other day? because that was awesome. I would love to do that at my farm. We currently have Lead Acid batteries which don't hold much power to run the pump.
Two different projects, both open source! So feel free to use!
nice!
will the LeafEnhancer support new hardware?
Someone from UK , that upgraded nissan leaf from 24kw to superior KW ? will be great
Dala, hello! I bought a bridge 2 can, I flashed it as indicated in the instructions, but the values kW, lbs from 24 and the car aze0 24 did not change, and cells from 40 kW, please tell me what needs to be done so that the car sees the entire capacity of the battery?
My CAN bridge is for doing OEM complete battery upgrades, not cell swaps. You need a 40kWh BMS and current sensor...
@@DalasEVRepair I'm good at circuitry, but it's not my thing to program or rather write firmware. Can I ask you to make a firmware for this bridge? and how much will it be? lbc unit from 40kW is indecently expensive...
Hi. Can anyone tell me (im a leaf owner but no technical/engineering experience) how I can upgrade a Gen 2 battery from 2013?
All explained on Github: github.com/dalathegreat/Nissan-LEAF-Battery-Upgrade/wiki
Lol come to Mauritius
Upped patrion!
Appreciate it! 🙏
Hi pleas pleas can you provide video on how to connect to 2015 leaf pleas
Hi Dala me again is the software on the 2port can bridge the latest version and did it solve the timed charging issue
Open an issue on Github if you notice something broken! The entire community can now work on this!
@@DalasEVRepair ok thanks will try the 2port can bridge and see if there are any issues the main issue I had with the 3port can bridge was the timer for charging didn't work
Does it increace the driving range without any swap or upgrade to the battery , my car is leaf 2019 with 40kw battery
No this is only for battery upgrades, nothing else!
My leaf 2018 Canada, how can I buy your hardware?
See the link in the description!
Highly appreciate your contribution to Ev community ⚠️ Well done Genius ☘️Your parents and family members must be very proud of you ⚘️⚘️⚘️ The Nikola Tesla of our time 🌍 🌎 🌏 ❤
So now you can do the Leaf CCS? :)
y e s
@@DalasEVRepair was thinking about this.. with some of the newer nissan models coming out with CCS2 are their modules an option? some of the 2021 models must have managed to run into a tree by now :)
Hola una pregunta
Esta actualización que hace exactamente?
Hi Dala, Is there any schematic for the blue PCB ?
Unfortunately I don't have it!
@@DalasEVRepair I’m sorry for bothering you, I have another question, dose this board with its normal code have different application or it’s for Battery upgrade also ?
@@ahmadzarara3149 When you buy it, it comes flashed with a mileage spoofer for Mercedes Benz vehicles. Highly illegal piece of kit! After flashing it, it becomes an useful thing that can do battery upgrades:)
It kind of sucks that some crook selling illegal devices that end up cheating people out of a lot of money is making money off of this.
How can i test the soh of the battery before installation ??
With this: github.com/dalathegreat/Nissan-Leaf-Battery-to-OBD2
@@DalasEVRepair the link is broken
I’m confused what this is
Hello Dala, I am from the state of Missouri in the USA.
How can I possibly have one of your 40kwh packs shipped to me? I understand I'll have to pay but I've NEVER bought anything as far as your country.
I do not sell anything. Not even can-bridges. Look for batteries from scrapyards/salvage auctions!
@@DalasEVRepair thank you.
Is very complicated to use 3x6.6kwh / 3x3.3kwh nissan leaf inverter's to become a DC ChaDeMo charger ?
Cheapest Chinese DC portable 10kwh charger is 7k€+ :(
Ya its complicated
@@DalasEVRepairto bad :(
Scraped electric cars have so many electronic parts but no one can give them second life.
Is less expensive to buy new models then improve old ones :(
Flywheel generator with alternator . jailbreak the ev salute
Hi does the 2 port can need 12v power when flashing?
Nope!
@@DalasEVRepair thanks I'm trying to flash it but it says cli file not found
is or will this be available on ebay and amazon??
Yes, but prices are better on Ali's!
If you get a dead one out of the box, will it show when being programed or when fitted in the car? Thinking I have a dead one
Unfortunately both failure modes are possible (unable to program / no passing thru messages)
@@DalasEVRepair thanks for your reply, are they known to fail after some time of use?or once you have a working one,it will last the life of the car,
I have got mine working now, I believe that it was incorrectly flashed the first time
@@jasong7374 The one I installed on my own car in 2021 is still running great! But having a backup is not a bad idea, they are only 13€. Who knows if it lasts 5-10-15-20years!
@@DalasEVRepair with my install i have solder in plugs on the can wires of the car and the can bridge, and also Carry a spare programmed and tested can bridge in the glove box,so if I have any issues I can change one on the side of the road, probably being more careful than nessary, but this is my first 40kwh upgrade on a 24 aze0 so still learning
Молодец!
hi is it possible to install a tesla battery in a leaf?
Possible? With enough (hundreds) of hours in R&D, anything is possible. Economically viable is another question entirely...
Sort of like buying time with other peoples money.
Hello,
Could you help me with the fact that my car (2017) got a 40kW battery instead of the 24kW one, and since then it doesn't charge above 94%. What is the reason for this? Thank You!
Battery will charge to 92-97% real SOC, that you can see with Leafspy. The dashboard will show 100%. This is due to temperature/voltage diffs/internalresistance. Completely normal, nothing to worry about!
The dashboard show 94%, and LeafSpy same.
@@PixiTrabi then you have an older CAN bridge?
I didn't do the swap, so I don't know. Where is it in the car where I can look at it?
I didn't do the swap, so I don't know. Where is it in the car where I can look at it? The exchange took place in February 2023
Just use laser hair removal for the little wisps of hair in the front. Be free!
Actually, cause of people like you they had to do it.
Thanks