Nissan Leaf 40 kWh Bangkok challenge

Uploaded 2 years ago by Bjørn Nyland

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- The Provincial Electrical Authority's head office in Bangkok has several chargers.
- There are 25kW DC chargers made in Thailand.
- These charging stations require relatively low investment and not much grid connection.
- The Nissan Leaf in Thailand costs almost one million baht.
- The reviewed car is stripped down, it has a very basic screen and a CD player, but no navigation.
- The car does not have ProPilot.
- There is no camera for the system in the car.
- The battery is tiny. It is a 40 kWh Leaf; the 62 kWh version is not offered in Thailand.
- The charging speed is slow.
- A low consumption of 114 Wh/kilometer was observed on the superhighway.
- The leaf has low range.
- Adaptive Cruise control, is not available.
- Charging provided only 24kWh with the battery temperature at 49 degrees celcius
- 200km were traveled to reach the current charging station
- An hour of charge time is expected, while reviewing the cost of a Khāmoo meal which is 70 Bhat.
- 16kWh available after one hour.
- The Thai Leaf is limited at 50kW for max speed.
- The car is pulling 500w of heater, while reviewing the gauges for 52degree celcius
- The reviewer used EVME car-borrowing service.
- It took approximately 12 hours to reach Chiang Mai.
- The average kWh was over 150 per 100 km traveled
- There are limited fast chargers outside major cities.
- High temperatures result in high degradation.
- Adaptive cruise is absent in lower models.
- Passive cooling during slow driving.
- Charging is limited to 15kW when temperatures are high.

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