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Same result here. 80% charge provides quite a lot of braking/charging and it helps keep my speed way down without having to ride the brakes. It's a pretty good solution if I keep the speed down to maximize the charging.

One of the problems we have locally is the "scourge" of bitcoin miners setting up shop because of the super cheap electricity. It's even less for businesses. That reduces the amount of power we can sell outside the area to other electricity customers who need it for their EVs. So I tried a...

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Thanks for this -- your response is a great guideline re: mountain driving. Very helpful, and very much appreciated. I've noticed the car "shaking," as you put it, when the brakes heat up from the descent. However, I've also noticed that with the brakes on our other cars, as well. Braking...

Speed limit is about 50mph the whole way. But the distance (10 miles) is really just to the edge of town. It's another ~4-5 miles through town to get to my children's school, and frequently we'll need to do things at some of the business centers that are on the other side of town. I think...

The 2011 has just D and Eco (no "B" mode). But when you're fully charged or nearly charged . . . neither D or Eco or brake pedal does any regen braking.

At some point we wouldn't have enough charge to get home . . . so my wife is not enthusiastic about charging to less than 80%. The regen on the hill was *much* less than I was expecting, although it was better than driving down with a full battery. Battery degradation is not apparently bad...

Hi, I'm new to the forum, although we've had our 2011 Nissan Leaf SV for about a year now. We just towed the Leaf 1000 miles to our primary residence, which is located at 4000' elevation, and about 10 miles from our nearest town (which is 600' elevation). We installed the 220V charger in our...