Are used EVs a rip-off?!

Nothing. It's a decent sized boot. Show me. About this ledge, look, see what I mean, put the seats down anyway, what's here, please, yes, fortunately, it's your tar repair kit. What is this? Could it be the wheel locking nut? Because if I don't have it, I'm screwed. Yes, there it is. the wheel locking nut is there and then we have the toit, which is pretty decent. I'm pretty impressed with this car, let's keep driving it to see if we can get three bars of battery, so that's 25%, 30 Mi of range and 13 mil. to go all out to play to drive, I just noticed something, a little bit of wind noise from here, it doesn't seem to get through to the other side and I'm wondering if there's a slightly leaky door seal or something.

It's causing one of the things about electric cars is that you notice other noises because there is no noise from an internal combustion engine, so as the cars get older you will probably notice more rattles and squeaks, although to be fair, this the car doesn't sound or Does it squeal at all or have two bars of battery left and 10 miles to go, I wonder what this thing will do when it starts to run out, it will just reduce power, it will just stop. Suddenly, it's been at 11k for quite some time. a few miles now I don't know what to do with that, I think the only thing that really matters is the state of charge, that's 12 miles, make up your mind, so I've traveled just over 43 MI 2 thousand to the destination. 30 miles of range left.

I wonder if this car will actually end up going the exact 59 miles it promised at the beginning of this video. Well, we're almost there. The range is back down to 12. Just enter our destination. Very briefly, I'm here with Matt from Cleveley Electric Vehicles and Matt is an expert not only when it comes to selling

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electric cars but also checking the condition of them. Let's check the condition of this car's battery. If we are going to upgrade it to a big diagnostic machine like the above, we found that a third party app created by Nissan Leaf owners and lovers is the best tool to use, so it is called Leaf spy, plugged in the OBD port and went in. in an application as simple as the one we have connected to the car we can see the data appear on the screen so that it knows that it is a 24 kwh battery its health status dramatic pause 70% according to the small dll in the car Saying that there is a 75 %, that's close enough, isn't it?

The indicators on the side are approximately so that a vehicle owner can see what the health status of the battery is. Normally it has 24 KW hours, there are 22 KW hours usable so it is 70% of its 22 KW hour 15.4 KW hour now according to the manufacturer's range of 124 Mi, so we should get around 87 miles on a charge complete. I've done 46 on this car and it says I have 9 miles and a bar left, but this means I actually have almost 25% of the battery left, so it will be interesting to see how far I can go overall, Matt, what do you think of the battery of this car? good or bad given its age it is good you have lost 30% of your battery in the last 11 years we have a good car so guess how much I paid for this three thousand dollars, 1500 pounds that good because they are a very reliable car, this device and the app, how much is it about 20 pounds for the app?

Yes there are many Leaf owners that have this because of how good it is, we do a lot of upgrades on this Nissan. Leaf, well do you have any other battery packs? We have stock of them. These are some of the batteries we have removed over the last few years when doing battery changes on this and leaf, the reports are on them too. We know what charging state it was in when it was removed and we will label it if there is an error, as you can see in the one I showed you. It has a shedding distribution of 8 among the best, really good, but it has an insulation error there. are the occasion where the cells will leak to ground, the battery pack and the ECU monitors it internally all the time so it is very very safe, the car will signal it and not drive and not allow that high voltage works. right, I have an example here of one of the cells from the same battery as yours, so we have the terminals here and you can see it's all swollen, yeah, we can see at the end here how there's been an incident, it's modular, like You see, we can take out a bad cell and put in a new one, okay, then sell this and do something where, for example, if my battery was very low, I could buy one that came from another car. with maybe 70% like mine from you, how much would you sell a 70% health battery pack for a sheet?

We could supply and assemble it for around £2000. My car only cost like 1,500 quck. I am destined to be a winner. Can I really upgrade the package to one of the larger ones on a later car? Yes, you can, and how much does it cost to make that change? About 85,000, that's pretty expensive because what happened to the price of the blade and other EVS they have? If it's down a little bit, you can get a full 40K car around 10 now or a little less, like the demand for EV batteries

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for home solar storage, things like that, is actually staying high for the price of the battery, so okay, if you were to have an accident or you were to draw 40 kWh, the main value of that car is in that battery pack and that is sold to people like us who are upgrading older cars and keeping on the road what would be an obsolete or worthless vehicle, so M, we have my sheet on the ramp, what are the key things to keep in mind in these mechanical aspects?

As you can see you can't see much because there are plastic covers everywhere where the battery goes essentially from here so it can be I see a big orange wire there so the battery goes all the way and then ends just before the shaft rear, the rest is car stuff, so you have suspension arms and sway bar links that can cause knocking noises, things like that on your main drive motors. Right there it is maintenance free, the motor is yes, what about the other parts we mentioned? It has a differential and a transmission case, so it has a liter of oil, so it is important to do regular oil changes how often.

You do that? Nissan doesn't recommend it at all, but we do recommend it every 30-40k to keep the oil fresh, so it might be worth doing it on this car if I'm going to keep it. I would recommend it if you did. I'm saving it, but other than that, they're pretty good, what does it look like considering it's 10 years old? So I would expect to see a little more rust on it, but it is a very clean car. Well, let's take a look at the back. I looked at the brakes, I think the rears may be a little low, probably worth looking at and doing at some point.

I'll tell you what's not so good, although it does have a leak on the side, it's not uncommon on a blade, unfortunately sometimes. Windshields can leak or bodies can crack with sealant just by flexing the casing and water can trace its way through any small gap, you know what? Let's get him off the ramp. I'm going to get on my way. Again I'm going to see how far I can go with this car and what will happen when you leave it completely without power: it will just stop or slowly reduce its power, so you will get a lot of warnings so it currently says 9 miles on the dash eight, that's its kind of limit point and then it will just go into dashes and reduce the power that it can draw from the high voltage battery so it will have less power when starting and while you're driving and then it just stops okay we'll see how that plays out all very soon, let's get going now off camera.

I was talking to one of the guys at clev electric vehicles and they had a couple of blades for sale, both were the later versions of the 30kwh battery pack, apparently the batteries on those aren't as good as the older ones with the batteries 24kwh, they don't seem to last as well, so that's something to keep in mind. Please note if you are thinking of purchasing one of these as a very cheap used vehicle, oh look at the low battery up to 5 miles of range, now don't mess it up here, we are going back the way we came which means those hills that They are rolled down, now I have to turn them up with a very low load, so what happens if I put it in normal driving mode?

Now, cheer up, it hasn't affected the range either. Back to Eco, well, we've done 51 miles. Now okay, okay, that's 3 miles of range. Now I only get three lines. This car is in its last stages. Very low battery charge level. Do you want to find a nearby charging station? No, so I think we're three miles apart. Now it's 52, maybe we'll get to 55 miles. I wonder if I put it in normal driving mode? I can get all the points for maximum power. Yes, it still gives me maximum power. It's crazy. I think we still have a way to go.

I've done 55 miles so I'm driving with a limit of 50 but I'll keep my speed at around 45 just to help me go a little more distance oh but a serious loss of power. Little T Toy is underway. slow mode now 60.1 miles almost no power I have my foot on the ground how far would I go now even if I'm in normal driving mode? The performance is the same. Try to maintain momentum on this curve. The blade actually handles pretty decently. because you have that load of weight on the car it doesn't lean too much in the curves I see a car coming this way oh no, I want to go that way too it's not an ideal position do the same Loop that's a good idea look look at this I'm going back on myself oh oh oh oh oh no no no no no oh no I'm going back yeah, come on, there's nothing, there's a man with a van, it seems like people can surround me.

In reality, I probably parked in the best possible spot in In total we drove 60.9 Miles. Call r. They will come looking for me. In fact, I have the r in D speed because we planned this little trip. They are ready on standby to come help. Q. I've broken down here and In fact, I've broken down in possibly the best place because you'll be able to put your truck right in front of me, Telly, yeah, if he still backs up, oh Poo, you won't even go into neutral. here we go neutral but not allowing him to move back, let's see if he moves Miguel, can you push this back a little because if he doesn't move we could have problems?

Yeah, he's moving, okay, so he lets you in. neutral, which is very useful, so we should be able to put it on the RAC truck. I couldn't have picked a better place to break down. It looks beautifull. Scenic gets a lot of attention, but people can walk by. Did. 60 Mi, okay, just hit my head on the inside, it seems like it's dangerous to park, so we go a little over 60 Mi and it has 75% battery charge. I think if it was new this wouldn't have done 124k like Nissan claims, it would have done about 80 miles, but you know, £1500 gets you around town and stuff, a real bargain, not much to go wrong and, As long as you plan your charging, you should never end up needing this guy here because electric cars are far away. simpler than cars with internal combustion engines.

I think this is really a win for the Nissan Leaf. I hope you enjoyed the video, if you give it a like let me know what you think in the comments below if you want to see more videos. I selected a couple for you there. I think you might like to just click on those windows to see them, or if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to this channel. You can do this by simply pressing the Carwell logo there.