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On May 18th, 2011, I drove off the lot with the first new car I had ever purchased. Today, we're an all-EV household. The Leaf has been a great car. Like many other owners, we've had battery degradation and I wonder if Nissan was too slow to respond and squandered their first mover advantage...

My car is now 5 years old and there has been some range degradation (as expected). It would be nice it Nissan came out with a range extender that I could rent for the few times each year that I'd like to take my Leaf on a long trip. Especially as these batteries age, this would be nice to have...

My Leaf and I just had our 5 year anniversary http://buff.ly/1TRG4ek

Our Prius was totaled in Feb, so the Leaf has had to step up. Even with the range down to less than 58 miles (see the chart in the link), the Leaf is used for most of our trips. http://www.carswithcords.net/2016/05/leaf-repurposed.html

My Leaf and I have been together nearly 5 years. I am thinking of writing up a 5 year ownership review. What issues would you like to see addressed or question would you have for such a write up?

How Incremental Improvements Add Up

I took my Leaf to the dealership for some standard maintenance today. While I was waiting, I looked at the new Leaf sitting on the lot and saw this: It was news to me that CARWINGS had a date certain for death in my 2011 Leaf. It seems even worse that they are still selling new cars that use...

I saw an illegally parked Leaf a few days ago. It was blocking access to a wheelchair van and preventing a mother from loading her wheelchair bound son. She was mad! You can read the story here: EV Driver Violates Wheaton's Law

My understanding is that EZ-Charge and "No Charge to Charge" are two separate (but related) programs. EZ-Charge gives you a card that will work with four EVSE networks: Aerovironment, Blink, ChargePoint, & NRG eVgo. Whereas, "No Charge to Charge" gives you two years of free charging (via the...

I have done some back of the napkin math and predicted that by 2070 nearly every car that is sold will plug in and that 100 years from now ICE cars will be a rare sight (outside of museums). You can see my assumptions and charts here...

Plug In Drivers Not Missin' the Piston http://buff.ly/1k7fbh6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; EVs are here to stay. It is adapt or die time.

On Saturday I plugged my 2011 Nissan Leaf into the OpConnect EVSE on Electric Avenue in Portland. The car beeped once to indicated that it was plugged in, then it beeped twice to indicate that it was charging. This was all normal. I did not swipe my OpConnect card since it had already started...

I wrote about a heater issue while fast charging and posted it in the EVSE section. Think about it more, it might have been better to post it here. Rather than crossposting, I'll just put a link to the other post here. http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&p=288395#p288395

I recently took a ~225 mile trip in my 2011 Leaf. I generally do not use DC fast charge, but for this trip the West Coast Electric Highway in Washington was going to be my primary 'fueling' source. On one of the legs of the journey, it was late at night and it was cold out. I turned on the heat...

As I was about to leave work today, I pulled out my phone and launched the Leaf app. It was hot, so I turned on climate control so the car would be cooled off by the time I walked across the giant parking lot. The command was acknowledged normally. A couple minutes later, I got an error message...

http://www.plugincars.com/eight-tips-extend-battery-life-your-electric-car-107938.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Do you do any of these things? What important battery lifespan tips are missing?

I have been listening to Pandora and Slacker Radio on my HTC Android phone in my Leaf via Bluetooth and I love it. For most of the drive I have a strong 4G signal and I can stream high bit rates. There is one strange thing that wanted to see if anyone else has found this or knows how to fix...

got this error from my home Blink: Return Code: 6 EVSE Error: 12

I had a weird thing happen yesterday. Whenever I hit even a small bump, there was an alarm beep, a red triangle near the trees would come on and then go off, and a quick top view picture of the car would flash on the driver's screen. The car picture disappeared before I could see what it was...

Like many other Leaf owners in the US, I had my car in a "End Dependence" Day parade today. I cleared the onboard counter and prepared to see some double digit miles per kWh numbers. I was expecting the miles of slow driving to boost my efficiency through the roof. I was wrong. Most of the...