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PG&E has posted notice proposing rate changes for the (default) E-1 rate schedule, effective this coming summer. They claim that it will be revenue neutral, but that certainly doesn't mean it will be cost-neutral to most of their customers. They propose to reduce the current four tiers to three...

Last Friday the yellow triangle in my eyebrow started popping on intermittently, along with the yellow "brake system warning" icon (looks like a brake drum with brake pad) and the "VDC warning" icon (car with skid marks). This is on my 2013 S model with just over 4000 miles on it. The manual...

We are a very diverse community here, physically spread across the United States and scattered throughout the world. I got to thinking that familiar terms often mean very different things to us. Take "in the valley", for example. Most of us could say that to a neighbor or a stranger in the...

Great news from Plug In America for anyone who installed an EVSE in 2012 or plans to this year! Way to go guys! Ray

Our passenger side window has always rolled up more slowly than the driver's side one, and there was even a short thread on this way back when. But today it got worse. "How come I can't get the window to roll up?" my wife asked. "Let me try from here," I suggested, and my button did work, though...

No, I haven't been racing, flying on the freeway, climbing hills, or even gunning it at stoplights. For the past six days I've just been making a few short trips in town. 10.1 miles total, and 4 bars gone. 2.2 m/kWh is probably roughly comparable to our Prius getting 20 mpg. Now, I know that...

The climate control system in the LEAF quite likely has the worst user interface of anything in the car. I suggest that we debate what it should look like and, if we can come to some agreement, find a way to bring our proposal to Nissan's attention. As a starting point, here is my present...

I expect a large fraction of us who live in or near San Jose, CA are familiar with "Mr. Roadshow" of the Mercury News. If so, you are likely to know he is a Prius owner and fuel efficiency advocate. You may well also have heard that he is sponsoring a Prius HOV lane sticker party at the end of...

I got home at dusk tonight and noticed what seemed at first to be a crack in the paint straight across the hood. It's a black line which is quite prominent against the Ocean Blue color. It caught my fingernail, but after inspecting it more closely I realize it is a fine line on top of the paint...

I originally ordered an SV because I didn't see much value for myself in the SL features or the QC port. But when the EV Project was finally brought to the SF Bay Area, I did see that there would be value in a free charging dock, and I had never accepted AV's $2,900 bid. So I sent an email to...

This is something I've never seen on any car, but then I've only driven economy cars. I'd like a button to pause, or freeze, the currently displayed trip odometer. It would hold it's current mileage until the button was pressed again while that trip odometer was being displayed. (i.e. pause and...

It looks like the "Northern California" gathering focus is moving toward Sacramento, and that's a long way from the Bay Area. I was trying to think what would be central for us, and I keep coming back to Boardwalk Nissan in Redwood City. I don't know the area, but I see The Diving Pelican just...

This is off-topic, even for the “Off-Topic” area, but was triggered by a comment I made over at Nissan : 6,000 (Japanese) orders to be delivered by Mar 31 ?. I said it would be a blast for me to drive a LEAF with the steering wheel on the right side, because I used to drive that way. One person...

Tomorrow morning we're driving up to SFO (San Francisco airport), about 60 miles, and taking a plane to the LA area. We're flying back in the evening and driving home. Naturally I wondered -- what if I had my LEAF? Clearly 120 miles of mostly freeway driving isn't going to happen without...

Sorry, I should have been more specific. "The budget has to balance before it can be passed. I think the proposed California budget they are arguing about is something like 22 BILLION dollars out of balance right now." Nope, not with a Democrat majority fighting to keep the Republican minority...

There is a set of 57 PDF files on the Nissan website providing information about incentives of various kinds that are available to LEAF owners in specific parts of the United States. I can't seem to find any legitimate way to get to these files through the nissanusa.com website structure, so I...