My Altima is a 2009. In the almost one year of ownership, I have never seen the EV battery indicator read above 3/4 percent full. I have seen it almost on empty. No amout of coasting, breaking, or slow driving will get that meter above 3/4 percent full. Is this typical? Seems we are lossing out on some extended EV miles because we always start out at 75% battery capacity before the engine needs to kick in to charge things back up.

-Cliff

 

If I coast down a long, steep hill, I get it to probably 90% full. If I brake at the bottom, it's nearly pegged full.

 

+1. it won't go over 75% under normal conditions, but braking down hills, slowing down on the highway for tolls, it'll go above that but you use up the extra charge really quickly

 

Not too many hills around where I usually drive so not sure I can push this to read higher than 75% before it starts getting used up again. Maybe that's my normal.......thanks.

 

it is normal. doesn't make a lot of sense for the engine to charge the battery to 100%, else you would never be able to recapture braking energy