Can you glide (no regen) in a Nissan Leaf

I'm guessing that you have to apply slight gas pedal pressure as you do in the Prius since it's reported that letting your foot off the gas applies slight regen.

 

I would be surprised if it did. In a Prius the planetary gear arrangement can disengage the the electric motor from the drive train, but in a leaf there is no transmission. I imagine the motor is directly coupled to the drive train and with no way to disengage it there'd be no gliding. However I bet you can approximate it if you manage the pedal such that you're applying a just enough juice to the motor that it matches the wheel rotation closely. But, of course, we're all just guessing until we get one.

 

Does gliding have any meaning in a BEV ? I have always taken it to mean no ICE spin. If the question is whether the coupler between the axle and the motor will spin I guess yes, same as the PSD in a Prius.

Maybe OP was talking about regen when the fuel pedal is released ? That is just a programming issue. At some point of pedal pressure/release regen will start/stop.

 

Do you doubt the ability to apply a minimal throttle ?

 

About this time next year - you can anticipate that PC will have a more profound "Leaf" column ... and for CERTAIN, the column will have a "MOD's" section ... and one of the 1st mods will likely be:

"coaster mode"
:thumb:

 

no and of course not.

 

lol

I wouldnt call it "coaster" mode though. In electronics when you brick something because of a firmware update and make it useless, I think of coasters. Perhaps a firmware update gone wrong might do that.

 

The portion of the above that I have made bold is incorrect. In the Prius, nothing is ever disengaged. MG2, the primary drive motor, is directly connected to the front wheels through a fixed gear and is never disengaged. In fact, nothing in the Prius drive train is ever disengaged. Even the ICE. However, electric motors can freewheel with virtually no resistance. The computer can tell the motor to be a motor, to be a generator, or to do nothing. In the latter case, the result is the same as if it was not there. MG1 compensates, through the power-split device, for what otherwise would be conflicts between the ICE and MG2.

All the gears in the Prius drive train are permanently connected, and none of them ever disengages. It is the genius of the PSD that this can work as elegantly as it does.

It would be a trivial matter in the Leaf to allow the car to glide when the feet are off the pedals. Or to have re-gen turned on and off with a button. Regen happens only because the computer tells the electric motor to act as a generator.

My Xebra is direct drive, and it glides when my feet are off the pedals.