EVTV Friday Show - January 10, 2014 - LEAF Battery Modules in the Lab !!

- Nissan Leaf battery module introduction
- Factory Five 818 build at EVtv Europe in Amsterdam
- Jehu Garcia 18650 cell examinations for the Samba Electric VW Bus
- Karman Ghia progress

- Cadillac Escalade heater issues 

This is going to be Awesome ! Jack is now "playing" with used battery module from the Nissan LEAF ! They retail for 120USD on eBay right now. He says that they are lighter, more energy dense, and even cheaper than the CALB cells ...
Stay tuned for the Charge and Discharge tests to see how to use them with no BMS as usual ...







Anne on the Factory Five 818 build






GEVCU 4 wire harness

30 units arrived at EVtv


Jehu and his thousands of cells recycling




Brian on the Karmann Ghia progress

Another JLD meter for Temperature Control





Cadillac Escalade Heating System - Take 4 ? Getting ready for summer :-)





EV Catalogue edited by EVtv

Looking for a solution to Charge the LEAF at an Autolib Station

Since last saturday, when we found out that an Autolib Charging cable is too short for a LEAF, I have been looking for a solution ....

All Autolib charging stations have a Type 3 outlet and plug, a J1772 to plug into the car, (and third party EV ones have a regular 220V outlet)


First I thought, let's get a Type 3 (only in France ...) to J1772 cable, 7 meters long at least to go from the back of the car to the front charge port; I found one on Yoann's Automobile Propre Online Store
But it is too pricy for me ...


Also found one on Leboncoin.fr, but it is also 300EUR and 5m long only ... and the LEAF is 4.5m long, so it is too short too




Then I thought: No this Type 3 will eventually come to an end since it is not used at all other than in France, and all Europe is using Type 2 / Mennekes
So let's stay with Autolib J1772, and extend it to the front of the LEAF with a J1772 Extension Cable, yes it does exist, in the US at least, and a good one



After requesting a quote, it comes to 385USD shipped to France, too pricy still, but looks very well built, and has been sold by hundreds I was told
Here is a picture of a user who charges his Tesla Model S with it in Hawaii



Finally this morning, I came across this French guy's website on his Opel Ampera (= Chevy Volt in Europe) and all his charging adpators (a lot)

I asked him and it looks like it has been made by a company in Germany, and I am trying to get in touch with them to get one 

I will use it on the Autolib charging station, unplugging their Type 3 plug, and plugging this one instead, and plug my regular LEAF EVSE ...


onto the European outlet using an inexpensive adaptor

Electric Traffic Jam in Norway :-)

in Norway only ;-) .... for now

100,000 LEAF sold - That's a lot of Zeros ...

Get onboard the Nissan LEAF NISMO RC !

Who said electric cars were quiet ?  ;-)

A Model S plugged in and charging at an Autolib station in Paris

Renaud Roubaudi films a beautiful brown Tesla Model S P85 - Performance 85kWh - in a nice street of Paris, plugged in and charging at an Autolib station







The charge port is located at the rear and on the left, which is not too far and the owner is using his own Type 3 to Type 2 - Mennekes - cable

So I was wrong, a Model S can fit in an Autolib spot, a big one though ...



Source : POA - Petites Observations Automobiles de Renaud Roubaudi