Nissan Leaf

KCross · 17-12-2018 4:48pm

SV Premium doesnt seem to have ProPilot. Only SVE has it.

However the SV Premium does have the other safety things like lane departure, blind spot detection, intelligent cruise control, pedestrian emergency braking etc (according to nissan.ie anyway)

ProPilot, I assume, is just that final bit where it will stay between the lines on its own.

unkel · 17-12-2018 7:53pm

€31k is a lot of money without pro pilot if you can get an Ioniq for €26k that does have it...

NIMAN · 03-01-2019 1:11am

Another random EV question popped into my head today!:rolleyes:

When the Leaf is regen braking, and you get the full 5 circles showing as regen'ing on the dash, if you press the footbrake to slow yourself down even more, are you getting any more regen to the battery over and above?

Maybe like 7 or 8 circles on the display?

rolion · 03-01-2019 3:08am

Yes.

I tend to drive it B mode when in traffic or urban areas.
That will increase the regeneration process.

You can see "live" how that works from the Nissan econnect button (blue one of the lower right side of dashboard) and select Energy display info, then Electric Motor
That gives you a higher details of the consumption and regeneration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qNm7SJronM

rolion · 03-01-2019 3:13am

Another tricky question.
Due to recent cold weather, i like to leave the charging cable connected to the car.
The battery management switches off the charging once it reaches 80% (aka long life mode).

Does leaving the cable in charging mode affects the battery in a good way, bad way … or none !?

ELM327 · 03-01-2019 10:44am

rolion wrote: »

Another tricky question.
Due to recent cold weather, i like to leave the charging cable connected to the car.
The battery management switches off the charging once it reaches 80% (aka long life mode).

Does leaving the cable in charging mode affects the battery in a good way, bad way … or none !?

I used to do this in my 24kWh.

No short term negative effects, except I found a direct correlation between charging to 80% mode and leaving the cable in, and running down the 12v battery. Now, I don't know if that was just my car or a wider thing?

grudgehugger · 03-01-2019 8:46pm

rolion wrote: »

The battery management switches off the charging once it reaches 80% (aka long life mode).

Does this "long life mode" exist in the Leaf 40? I haven't spotted it as an option...

KCross · 03-01-2019 8:54pm

grudgehugger wrote: »

Does this "long life mode" exist in the Leaf 40? I haven't spotted it as an option...

I dont think so. It was removed even from the L30 so unlikely to be in the L40 either.

rolion · 03-01-2019 9:35pm

One thing that really "annoys" me is that few times, while driving...I had to keep my eyes on the dashboard and / or the screens to read the numbers or the figures...especially the regenerative ,the electric motor power consumption.

What I can advise my other myself is to stay focused on the road and keep my eyes off the screens...very easy to lose the control of the direction or steering and the next second you are in the back of the car in front of you...did it few times, very scary stopping at the small space.

I see a massive improvement some sort of heads-up display or audio notifications if my eyes goes off the windscreen or some sort of radar / autopilot enabled by default while driving ?

Of course, is nothing wrong with the Leaf, just thought applies to it..as dangerous driving style.

Batesy · 03-01-2019 11:05pm

Anyone else having grief with the app the past few weeks?

Very annoying how flaky it's been.

unkel · 03-01-2019 11:13pm

rolion wrote: »

I see a massive improvement some sort of heads-up display

Some cars had HUD decades ago. It is starting to filter down to budget cars these days. The Kona EV has it in some spec levels.

rolion wrote: »

some sort of radar / autopilot enabled by default while driving ?

Standard in the 2016 Ioniq. As long as you drive over 60km/h the lane keep assist is activated automatically. The active cruise control is also standard in the base model. These two combined are autonomous driving level 2. Also emergency braking should someone step in front of your car, or if you don't spot a car stopped ahead of you. Standard equipment in the base version of an econobox EV 3 years ago.

NIMAN · 04-01-2019 6:29am

Batesy wrote: »

Anyone else having grief with the app the past few weeks?

Very annoying how flaky it's been.

Big time!:mad:

AhHaor · 04-01-2019 9:17am

NIMAN wrote: »

Big time!:mad:

Leaf manager isn't working either. It's been flaky since November

Stealthirl · 05-01-2019 5:01am

EVA is acting up for me the last while aswell,it connects to the cloud but hangs while trying to connect to the car. Started about the same time nissan said they were working to fix there app.

quenching · 05-01-2019 9:59am

Batesy wrote: »

Anyone else having grief with the app the past few weeks?

Very annoying how flaky it's been.

Not working for me either.

McGiver · 05-01-2019 10:15am

Batesy wrote:

Anyone else having grief with the app the past few weeks?

The app hasn't worked for me for couple of weeks. Web access works but that's ridiculous, because it runs on Flash so you can't use it on a smartphone really.

optimal · 05-01-2019 4:54pm

McGiver wrote: »

The app hasn't worked for me for couple of weeks. Web access works but that's ridiculous, because it runs on Flash so you can't use it on a smartphone really.

Not working for me either. I’ve written to them, awaiting an answer!!

Batesy · 05-01-2019 7:45pm

It beggars belief that Nissan don’t have a top quality support for their app.

NIMAN · 05-01-2019 10:33pm

Mine can still turn on the climate control, but it'll not update the battery level.

_dof_ · 06-01-2019 9:29pm

It's been terrible since the latest update.

Try the My Leaf app on Android phones, it seems to be much more stable.

Gumbo · 06-01-2019 10:22pm

Hasn’t worked for me since the update a few weeks back.

Funny thing is, I get random remote charge notifications, for example today, telling me my charge on the 3rd January has stopped.

hawkeye_bmr · 06-01-2019 11:06pm

If you really need to see what battery charge is, go to the route planner, then refresh the battery status on the page it opens.

Saved me a trip back to the car in Dundrum when I was doubting if I pressed the timer override button!

_dof_ · 06-01-2019 11:11pm

kceire wrote: »

Hasn’t worked for me since the update a few weeks back.

Funny thing is, I get random remote charge notifications, for example today, telling me my charge on the 3rd January has stopped.

Yes, exactly this, and no proper notifications at all. Originally, the notifications to the phone worked, but the notifications to SMS or email didn't work. Then a couple of months ago, they managed to start sending SMS and email notifications for a couple of weeks.

Now, nothing apart from the odd random one to the phone.

The ratings for the app in the play store are overwhelmingly 1 star, with a lot of comments being that they'd award 0 stars if possible, also that the problems have started since that latest update in December.

NIMAN · 06-01-2019 11:17pm

_dof_ wrote: »

It's been terrible since the latest update.

Try the My Leaf app on Android phones, it seems to be much more stable.

But MyLeaf uses your Nissan login, and it's not updating my battery level on that either, so same as the official app.

Getting random alerts too.

_dof_ · 07-01-2019 1:09am

NIMAN wrote: »

But MyLeaf uses your Nissan login, and it's not updating my battery level on that either, so same as the official app.

Yeah, they'd both share that same backend server, as does the web site I assume. But today, I tried checking the battery level in the Nissan app, and it stayed with the spinning arrow for about 5 minutes and no response.

So I tried the My Leaf app, and after a minute or so, it did update the battery status. Then when launching the Nissan app, it showed the new battery status straight away, since it had already been updated on the server.

I assumed that the Nissan app hadn't sent the request properly in the first case, it hadn't ever actually triggered the reading of the levels from the car, but it's hard to tell. I suppose if you're in the car at the time, you can hear the clicking of the relays when the communications happens, at least I can hear clicking from the back of the car when there's some communication from the server to the car.

McGiver · 08-01-2019 2:05pm

I actually can't login on the phone at all. Website access works fine.

Gumbo · 08-01-2019 4:05pm

McGiver wrote: »

I actually can't login on the phone at all. Website access works fine.

I said I'd check the website and ive no cars in my garage?

Wonder if I went through the add car process would it help?

Am I on the right site - https://ie.nissanconnect.eu/en-ie/?returnUrl=%2Fen-ie/app%2Fownership%2FCsmVehicle%2FAll

or

http://cq5.prod.nissan.eu/IE/en/YouPlus/private/carwings/mycarprofile.html

_dof_ · 09-01-2019 1:19am

I use the first one and it is working fine

Gumbo · 09-01-2019 2:36pm

_dof_ wrote: »

I use the first one and it is working fine

My car is in the garage on that site but I cant seem to check anything?

randombar · 10-01-2019 12:18am

Looking to join the leaf club. I can't see myself making the journey across the sea. Two little kids and a busy job. Any recommendations? Ideally I'd love to trade in my 06 Corolla against something and pay around 10 k or so. Alternatively buy privately and selll corolla privately. Never much luck selling cars though.

Nissan Leaf

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