{"id":115440,"date":"2020-11-04T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/nissan-leaf-owner-upgrades-ev-battery-for-under-a3500"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:21:20","slug":"nissan-leaf-owner-upgrades-ev-battery-for-under-a3500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/nissan-leaf-owner-upgrades-ev-battery-for-under-a3500","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Leaf owner upgrades EV battery for under $A3,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Dwsk9lnr6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An early model Nissan Leaf has been given a new lease of life with a battery upgrade for a fraction of the price it would cost if done by Nissan.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Nissan Leaf came with a 24kWh battery, and even when new had a very modest driving range of 117km based on the US EPA ratings.<\/p>\n<p>But after nine years of use, this particular Nissan Leaf\u2019s maximum range had degraded to around 100km, prompting owner Daniel \u00d6ster to undertake an upgrade using a 30kWh battery from a 2017 Nissan Leaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early model Nissan Leaf has been given a new lease of life with a battery upgrade for a fraction of the price it would cost if done by Nissan. The 2011 Nissan Leaf came with a 24kWh battery, and even when new had a very modest driving range of 117km based on the US [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}