Recent content by Axel

Thanks for all the replies. My commute is 37 miles each way, I usually only need a couple of hours of boost. But here in Mountain View, there is no charging etiquette, people hog stations and even when they're done charging, they leave them there. Within one block from my office, there are over...

Getting to work and finding a charging station has become a nightmare. The charging station infrastructure really lags behind the massively growing number of electric vehicles in circulation. Add to that the fact that our Leaf battery capacity is in serious decline. Makes me want to give up, not...

Now I know I am still in my honeymoon phase, but here are the top twelve things I love about my Leaf. This has been the most enjoyable car I have ever owned, I literally try to find any excuses for driving it. Kudos to Nissan for such an amazing job to offset the limited range with so much...

As an ex-bmw driver I can assure you that the Leaf drives and handles just as well as a bmw up to about 80mph. In fact it handles much better at take off than a bmw ever will and the low center of gravity from the batteries makes for an awesome and stable driving feeling on curvy mountain...

I'll definitely PM you for the contractor contacts. Sounds like I may do better installing my own.

I live in the Santa Cruz mountains right above Santa Cruz, we get quite a bit more sun here, and we are on a southwest facing slope, so we don't get early Morning sun, which is when it's foggy anyway. I get the model of reducing the bill to just offset the expensive usage, but our motivation for...

Oh boy, I wish that were true! But based on what I researched, the costs for a system that would negate a $200 bill would be in the 20-30K range after rebates, unless you can do it yourself, which of course would be way cheaper, but then you have to deal with all the hassles involved. The...

Our new Leaf got us wondering if we could lower our carbon footprint, and so we decided to look into solar. We were very pleasantly surprised to find a number of lease options where we didn't have to pay anything at all and get to negate our electric bill including 15K miles/year charging at...

I most definitely enjoy flooring it at lights when I am the first car in a lane, especially when it's a Porche or a BMW. i will admit to going the speed limit on the fwy to maximize range, but usually only on the way to work because I never know if I will get a charging station. But taking off...

Thanks, that makes sense. This is good to know. Nissan support told me that it's best to run the battery down as low as possible (without running out of juice, of course) before recharging. saying it's better for battery life than constantly having it plugged in. So I've been pushing it, the two...

I am puzzled by the charge times I am getting on my Leaf. At 240V, I get a full recharge in about 4 hours (with one or two bars remaining in the red). At 110V, I thought it would take 16 hours, but the car gets fully recharged overnight. Do the later Leaf models have the faster charge system...

I've been trying to get car wings going, but so far, no luck. When i first registered for Carwings, at https://www.nissanusa.com/owners/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, I got the error that my car VIN was invalid. After calling support at Nissan, I was given a pin and password...

I couldn't send my unit in, because then I would not be able to go to work. My commute to work round trip is about 80 miles, and I can't always rely on a charger at work. I don't have any charging stations I can walk to or bike to easily. So I opted with their other option and shelled out $800...

I took the plunge and bought a Leaf after having to rent one from Hertz when a fork lift took out the door of my Prius. Hertz has since given up on the Leaf as a rental, which is a shame, but it gave me a chance to fall in love with how it drives and I got to debug the whole going to work drive...