Recent content by BraveLittleToaster

I don't live in Dallas, nor have I ever visited the place, but I'd be interested in knowing why exactly you say that. It's only about 75-80 miles (depending on the route you take) from Royse City to Benbrook, spanning the entire Dallas-Ft. Worth area, and there's a dozen quick chargers on that...

Try finding a Leaf on Craigslist then. The cheapest one I found was a guy trying to sell his 2012 SL for the same price as our 2012 SV rolled off the lot at. Mind you, that was early in 2013 when Nissan was having a year-end sale to make way for the new 2013s, so we got a killer deal, but...

Well, that's just not me. Maybe that's just the hardcore crazy environmentalist and all, but having a *car* is the compromise. Before we bought our Leaf, we had *no* car. I would bike my kids to and from school and daycare every day, rain or shine, and the only thing stopping me would be if I...

You forgot to say "for ME". Because for *ME*, it's *completely* practical. Whistler-Blackcomb (I imagine you know what and where that is, by now) is only 150 km from my house, and there's a quick charger about halfway there, just before the hill on the way up. Yes, we've done this trip before...

You know, when you're crawling along on the freeway at 30 mph in heavy traffic, I have a saying for my ultra-frustrated carpool driver or passenger or whoever is being dangerously impatient. "We're still going twice as fast as the next fastest mode of transportation". No, I don't mean a bike...

Another source (nissanparts.cc) quotes the pack at $5100: http://www.nissanparts.cc/parts/2012/Nissan/Leaf/SV/?siteid=218242&vehicleid=377207&section=ELECTRIC%20PROPULSION%20SYSTEM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Still, this is a long ways from the $8000 I've heard in the papers.

I recall that Nissan has said it will replace cells with "appropriately degraded" cells if any of them die. I have to wonder if the price difference between new and old models of the car are due to this "appropriate degradation". And how the heck do they manage that, anyway? It would basically...

Ultimately, the only solution was to operate the manual override on the inside while someone else on the outside violently (like, "dude, you're going to dent the door!") shoved and pulled the latch on the outside. Be careful of your fingers inside the override panel!

Cloth grocery bags are great, aren't they? Not when they get stuck in the hatchback latch they're not. A plastic grocery bag would come right out, but not this super-durable fabric. It's jammed the lock and now we can't get it out. Any ideas? I've already tried the manual unlocking mechanism.

Something of note: "In the Leaf and all other electric-only vehicles heat must be generated and therefore costs energy since the electric engine itself does not produce significant heat to use for the cabin." This is technically inaccurate. Heat isn't so much a free byproduct of an ICE, as it...

More like "real world *reliable* range is 73 miles" with caveats. If you're thinking of buying the car and you want to know if you're going to make your 60 mile commute to work every day, then there's a high likelihood that you will, unless any of the following apply: 1. You live in a place...

That's a whole lot of wishful thinking there. If Nissan could pull off even *twice* its current EPA range in 3 years at the same price point (regardless of mass), that would be nothing less than spectacularly epic in terms of engineering. It's been said before and I'll say it again: there is no...

We live in Burnaby, acquired our blue 2012 SL March 22 2013.

That's funny, Enginer's website for said add-on says "$3,495" for the 4 KWh kit (adds 20 miles or 32 km).

Really? http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2012_fotw727.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This graph seems to indicate that more American households have two or more cars than have less than two. So since "having a second ICE" is something the average person...