Great, thank you for spending your time and sharing your knowledge with noob like me. @Billyk24and @Plus 3 Golfer
I have few questions/clarification to make. the reason I started researching on this topic because when I bought the car a month ago, it was showing 17 miles on the EV meter. I never paid much attention on KWH and other stuff till I saw a drop to 15 EV miles and I got alarmed. The way I am using the car is to charge it during the middle of the night using 110V power outlet, and use it in the early morning. When I reach work, which is 16 miles away, EV miles shows 0 miles. I leave the car on the parking lot which is not shaded and commute back on hybrid mode. 100% of my commute is in the City with max speed of 50 MPH.
1. If my understanding is correct, Energi battery will always keep some charge to operate as a hybrid vehicle even if EV meter is at Zero. So even if I drive all the EV miles, I am not depleting the HVB fully, and therefore it is ok to use up all the available EV miles before the recharge, is that correct?
2. As I described about my charging pattern, is it ok to charge it all year around up to 2.2 KWH ? or Should I stop charging at all during summer months? What is the temperature cutoff I should look at to make such a decision?
3. The car did not come with original charger, rather it came with a Nissan Leaf charger. Do you think that charger has something to do with the fall of of capacity level?
4. Is it possible to ask dealer to re-balance the battery pack and hope that it would bring back some of the lost capacity? I know I cannot expect a "new battery" performance from a 5 year old car. I am just trying to see if I can get little better performance which will meet my needs.
Again, I know this forum is for CMAX Hybrid forum and therefore thank you for all the suggestions and feedback on Energi model. To be frank, I did not even understood the difference between Energi and Hybrid when I purchased it. I will look into forscan app suggested. I wish I did little more research and found you guys before jumping! I never thought this car will be this complicated.