NightShiftNurse

Coming from a cold-climate Leaf owner — 40% winter range loss is brutal. At $42/cell for 280Ah EVE cells I keep thinking about whether a DIY LFP swap into the Leaf is realistic. I know it's not a beginner project. Has the community documented a clean BMS integration path for the Leaf shell, or is it genuinely too messy to be worth it?

The Leaf thermal architecture data matches exactly what I'm seeing. My 2020 Leaf (bought used at 28k miles) is already at 84% state of health via LeafSpy. In Minneapolis winters I watch capacity drop on cold mornings and recover as the pack warms — which apparently reflects degraded cells becoming more apparent in the cold, not just thermal suppression. The Recurrent data is sobering for anyone shopping used Leafs without realizing how much faster the air-cooled architecture ages.