Recent content by ElectricVehicle

Just as you're loosing a capacity bar you may see that one bar come and go for some days. After a few weeks that capacity bar will be gone for good and not come back as the battery degrades a little bit more..

Sooooo much has happened since starting this thread! I remember getting my LEAF and paying for the CHAdeMO port. It was over 6 months before we had a publicly available charger. Now look where we are! Yowzer! And there is so much more coming!

An email sent to Blink card holders (I presume) with the new DC Fast Charger rates:

What are the Top 10 DC Fast Charger locations you would pick to support San Francisco Bay Area LEAF drivers? Please number your locations in order of priority from 1 to 10: 1 being the most important location, 10 being less important. Think in terms of: Extending consumer confidence to...

This might have been a result of converting your account from use on only free to paid stations. ChargePoint mailed two ChargePoint cards to drivers that converted their drivers account from 'free' to 'paid' between Oct 2011 and mid Dec. Save or connect the cards to your ChargePoint account...

TEG has perspective as a multiple EV driver and is involved in several EV communities.

I volunteer to be on the board. Serial EV Driver GM EV1 -> Toyota RAV4 EV -> Nissan LEAF. Issues of all involved need to be communicated. For example if there are conditions under which a LEAF should only be driven 7,500 miles a year, that needs to be communicated and incorporated in the...

One of the best features of the Nissan LEAF is the user community you become part of to share knowledge and experiences with. Check out local LEAF group meetings like http://sfbayleafs.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . A couple other organizations that are worthwhile joining...

I got the credit when I filed, at least the IRS accepted my tax return and payment on 4/13/2012. Now, almost 6 months later, they are accusing me of cheating with a $1500 "Accuracy" penalty. That's for a tax return prepared by a tax preparer, who would also be liable if he had knowledge of a tax...

Got my "examination" letter today. It says I owe a bit over $9,000. $7,500 for the EV credit that I submitted documentation for with my return, plus the $1500 penalty and a little interest. Nice to be treated like a tax evading criminal and slapped with an "Accuracy - IRC 6662" penalty when I...

Batteryfax(TM)

You can do an approximate internal resistance test by say noting battery voltage and battery current at low or no power at the end of 5 minutes or so to allow for voltage recovery from load and then immediately peg it to full power and immediately note the voltage and current. So now you have...

1,000 AZ LEAFs are in the garages of grannies who drive them 2 miles a week to church and that's it, returning to an air conditioned garage... Substantially raising the AZ LEAF fleet average battery capacity! :) If that's an average over the entire fleet of LEAFs in AZ, it really doesn't tell us...

The user wants to know will I be able to make this trip? That requires knowing the trip, potentially terrain, weather etc. depending on how close an analysis the user wants to do. I typically like to have 20% more than I need unless I'm really pushing the limits. And if you do plan it down to...

That's reality. Thanks for sharing this! Additional motivation to get this issue addressed quickly and satisfactorily so we can all get back to the business of getting more LEAFs on the road and making sure they are reliable for their chosen mission! We have to make this work so we can displace...