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We have been driving Leafs since 2011. 3 years with a leased SL that came with a Blink EVSE. Leased a new 2014 at $99/month for 3 years, then bought it. Bought a 2013 lease return in 2015. Leased a new 2020 SV+ in 2021. The 2013 is still going strong, our son and his fiance have it. We bought...

I have a Lectron Tesla to J1772 adapter. It worked fine with a destination charger to charge our 2020 SV+ at a motel in California. We currently have a 2014 Leaf S and a 2018 Tesla Model 3. They are parked outside and we have an old GE Wattstation J1772 EVSE and a Generation 3 Tesla wall...

The Vortex is designed to charge a CCS compatible Tesla from a CCS charger. Older Teslas need a hardware and software retrofit to be CCS compatible. The hardware software retrofit includes a Tesla adapter similar to the Vortex which is $350 for a model 3 and $450 for the Model S or X. The...

If your friends have had trouble with charging Teslas, they are poor planners and haven't used the Tesla navigation properly. Geography may play a part. All of our driving in the almost two years we've had a Tesla has been in the West, with the farthest East being Denver. Our longest stretch was...

We have been driving Leafs since 2011 when we leased a new SL which came with an installed level 2 EVSE, courtesy of a federal program. In 2014, the car had about 30,000 miles and had lost 2 bars, although it had never been charged eith a level 3 charger. At that point, Nissan was almost giving...

I have used a Lectron adapter with a 2020 SV+ and a 2014 S with a Tesla destination charger and a Tesla wall charger without any problem.

I have never seen an EA location with more than one Chademo connector. I gave up on Nissan after our first long road trip in our 2020 SV+ in the fall of 2022. We sold the SV+ to friends as a second car to their Tesla and bought a used 2018 Tesla. Our second car is a 2014 Leaf which we have had...

I'd be comfortable with a Plus for the commute, not a base model. We drove our 2020 SV+ from Portland to my sister's house in Redmond several times which is 143 miles. The trip is over Mt. Hood from our house, which is about about 20 feet elevation to 3,891 feet on the mountain then down to...

We currently have two Leafs in the family, a 2014 S we have had since it was new and a 2013 S we bought in 2015 as an 8,000 mile lease return. The 2014 has almost 90,000 miles and still shows 12 bars. It has been L3 charged once for about 10 minutes since we owned it. It is normally charged to...

We have been driving Leafs since 2011. At the beginning of 2021, we had 4 cars, a 2014 Leaf S which we had since it was new, a 2013 Leaf S we bought in 2015 as a lease return with 8,000 miles, a 1999 Subaru and a 1998 Volvo. The Subaru was our trip car for many years. We had just acquired the...

A year ago last fall, I sold my 2020 SV+ for $28,000. At the time, it was a seller's market. It's a buyer's market now. The price for used Teslas has dropped significantly in that time for the same reason.

In the fall of 2022, we replaced our 2020 SV+ with a used Tesla Model 3 RWD Long Range. We have been driving Leafs since 2011 and put over 150,000 miles on them. We currently have a 2014 Leaf S, which we got new and have driven over 85,000 miles. Only one ten minute level 3 charge in over 8...