NOTE: Battery upgrades in Vaasa are not available at the moment. We suggest upgrading at home by ordering a battery from a scrapyard, and installing it with a CAN-bridge at home!

Are you in need of more range from a single charge? Do you want to keep your electric car on the road longer? Do you want to increase the value of your EV? You’re in luck! A battery upgrade might just be the thing for you! Dala´s EV Repair is working hard on offering affordable battery upgrades for the 2011-2023 Nissan Leaf. There are currently two ways of performing a battery upgrade. The first way to upgrade has been around for some time but is being replaced by a newer, safer and quicker way.

History lesson: The ‘Bruteforce’ method relies on putting newer cells into the old battery casing and re-using everything related to the battery management system. The only positive of this swap is that it never causes any pairing issues, and you can upgrade to any lithium modules. The major downside is that this takes many more hours to swap everything out, and when everything is up and running the instrument cluster will show an incorrect range estimation. It also requires extreme caution and skill when doing a deep dive into the battery pack. Also depending on which cells you use, the battery management system will not behave correctly, so we NEVER perform this way of upgrading. See this link for more info

The “Clean” method to upgrade is much quicker and safer. This method works by mounting a CAN-bridge between the new battery and the car, to translate the newer battery pack data to a compatible format for the older car. There are currently a few suppliers that offer some form of this clean upgrade functionality, but we use our own version of a CAN bridge to keep down cost. It also enables us to code any specific functionality we want, and allows us to upgrade freely between any Nissan LEAF battery pack size (24/30/40/62kWh)! See this link for more info on battery upgrades