u/BroBroMate

Kia ora, looking to buy a car to replace my wife's Yaris that a Ranger backed into and wrote-off and I've read the excellent Nissan Leaf guide pinned up top, and dang, I'm learning a bunch of new stuff.

But I had some questions about interpreting the Leafspy info in the photo I've attached.

I looked at the LSP info linked in the Leaf guide by Sam Holford (and contributed a small PR to fix a dead link), but it doesn't cover this particular screen.

I understand that QC = quick charges and less is typically better for battery life, but I have...

...Questions

1. What are L1/L2 charges? Just different amperages?
2. As far as I understand so far, 12 bars = SOH of 85% = good, and 8 BARS = 59% SOH and starting to tip into "bad" and 6 bars = SOH of ~46% = very very bad, and while this may be a horribly vague question, how much battery degradation would you expect to see over time owning one?
3. From my reading of the guide, 73.33% would show as 10 bars on the battery health display in the car, comparing where the bars are adjacent to the 1 in the attached photo (I can't see the bottom bars) to photos on the Leaf guide, it looks about 10 bars?
4. The number in the left is range I'm guessing?
5. Does battery degradation accelerate over time, or is it more of a linear thing? E.g., if this car lost 2 bars in 10 years, can I expect it to take a similar amount of time to hit 8 bars?
6. For a 30kWh 2016 Leaf, is that a decent SOH and range?
7. Are there any best practices around charging to minimise degradation?

No doubt you get asked this type of stuff a bunch, so thank you very much in advance - I'm trying to calibrate my expectations of these cars, I've only ever driven one once, and boy howdy, the torque they put down was amazing, but yeah, all my previous car buying knowledge has no power here, if you pardon the pun.

He's joining the New Zealand Army as a combat driver, and he had to work so damn hard to get here, he had such a hard coming of it, which makes me all the prouder of him.

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My ex-wife believed that God wanted our kids to be homeschooled, but it turns out, we were really shit at it, and me questioning "God's" will ended our marriage, by the time I got full custody and he went to a real school, he was 14 with a writing disability and really struggled. I've had full custody of all my kids for eight years, and always felt guilty that I hadn't done anything about it sooner, I was too scared to do so because I knew it would blow up my marriage, but it cost my kids, especially him, the oldest.

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After barely passing school he worked at a vape shop for 3 years for want of anything better up l to do, until he realised he wanted to be more than that, and I encouraged him to follow a dream of his, to drive cool trucks in the Army.

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It was not easy, first he had to build up his fitness to be even eligible for selection, then he had to build it up further to be inducted, and then he had to go through 13 weeks of basic training.

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And as a Dad, it was awful, when he rang me at his lowest points, I couldn't swoop in and save him, all I could do was tell him why he should believe in himself, that he could do it.

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And he did, he worked so fucking hard, I'm so damn proud of him. I cried a little during his passing out parade. But his success makes me think I did okay in the Dadding in the end, even if I fucked it up at the start.

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I also wanted to share some highlights of his parade for the interested.

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March in: https://youtu.be/ecr-AsnEg0M

The Army haka (Māori war dance): https://youtu.be/33JObcLSZ78

March out: https://youtu.be/4Q56otc9l34

Ngaurahoe (a young vent of Tongariro), with Tongariro in the background, Ruapehu, and lastly, andesite boulders in the Whangaehu River that drains the crater lake of Ruapehu and was the scene of the 1953 Tangiwai (weeping waters) disaster when the tephra dam on Ruapehu 's crater lake collapsed and unleashed a lahar that washed away a railway bridge causing an express train to plunge into the raging waters, killing 151 people.

While I was in the area, I stayed in accommodation in close proximity to the Rochfort Crater, the southernmost eruptive crater of the rift zone, located very close to the town of Ohakune.

My girl Klara, after spending several hours chasing rabbits, now snoring in my arms like the overindulged wee minx she is.