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Last Friday I had a run-in with my pre-climate control (i.e. warming/cooling down the car before driving). I made a trip to my in-laws right after work. I knew I was pushing the range so I plugged-in in their garage, which I had done plenty of times. My wife had left her Volt level 1 unit at...

I know this was something that was only mentioned/discussed by Nissan and was never official. I was checking to see if anyone whom had their battery replaced before the hot batteries arrived (July) ever received a voucher for a hot weather resistant battery. I didn't know if all that talk...

I just had my battery replaced from a 4 bar loser. One of the issues I had with my leaf was the software update for the battery gauge seemed to tank my braking regen. But now, I don't think its the true culprit. My old battery starting to have breaking regen issues around the time of the...

I have noticed in the past couple of weeks many blink stations that previously cost are now free. The first notice was my work. What made this odd is that because we cannot show biased at all for anything (being the gov) it took us a YEAR just to accept FREE blink stations (yes...your gov...

I know EPA's range test are a little wonky (using information from the wall unit, assuming a "fill up" at 90% usage, and even averaging 80% and 100% on the 2013's). But I have been asked a few times and couldn't answer this, and I searched on the leaf boards and still couldn't find a definete...

I am curious how car charging (blink) networks are doing since blink went bankrupt and car charging took over. I am not interested in home units but public units. Ever since blink went bankrupt and car charging purchased it, things have been going down hill in DFW. I will admit, despite...

So I found out something disappointing on Saturday. I QC quite a bit since we have access to many QC stations in DFW and we are very spread out, so QC use happens quite a bit. When the car was new, I could easily QC to the 80/90% (where the eVgo/AV units shut off - they say 90%, but its closer...

Ok for all you California and San Francisco people, my wife got invited to a conference in mid march in san francisco. She nor I have never been California at all! Her conference will take up most days and evenings (to network and socialize), but we may have some evenings available for us...

So I have read a few people who have had problems charging their car. Friday I came home from a long trip with 5 miles to spare - nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary, no warning lights on the dash, no nothing. Plugged in, light came on, EVSE clicked, car clicked on to charge. It about 5...

This has happened to me a few times, and seems more prevelant as I loose more capacity. When I am driving, either on freeway or a slow local street (it doesn't matter), I will loose two fuel bars at once. I have only seen it on bars 2&3 or 3&4. Nothing extra is going on - no acceleration, no...

I frequent a restaurant that is in the same shopping center that has a ChargePoint Level 1. Usually I wouldn't care about a Level 1, but since the distance to this favorite place is far and the station is free, I figured why not (we usually stay about an hour, and yes its ONLY a level 1). I...

For just a little bit of fun - my wife and her friend created a tumblr and twitter dedicated to catching non-plugin or non-hybrids in dedicated spots. Feel free to submit photos or just enjoy! http://iceshaming.tumblr.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...

My wife we discussing replacing our current old water heater with a heat pump (or hybrid heat pump) system. And it occurred to me that because we own plug in vehicles (2 actually, a leaf and a volt) and our water heater is in the garage (its electric) that this set up would be a super win-win...

Seeing the positive results that a few Arizona owners are getting to return their LEAFs or end them early with no penalties - if you had to trade your LEAF in today what would you get? Would you get another EV? Lease another LEAF? Would you require a plug-in? Just stick with a hybrid? Screw it...

Ok, I am now offically confused. I am hoping someone here can clear this up: ChargePoint (Coloumb company EVSE) has a few EVSEs throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Area (9 public locations total). I have a ChargePoint card and can use both the pay and non-pay stations (we have 2 paid ones) since...

Dallas, Texas - on the exact 1 year anniversary, I got in my car today to find the top bar of my battery is gone. 1 year, 20,200 miles. Garage at home, but not at work. First 6 months was all 100% charge, last 6 was 80% weekdays and 100% weekends. QCd numerous times (over 20 at least), and...

This weekend my wife and I raced by Leaf vs her Volt on a straight track at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, TX. Friday nights are open to the public for racing. My wife and I raced our cars twice, and I raced 2 more times, once against my brother in law (volkswagen GTI) and my dad (S10 pickup)...

So after owning a leaf for 6 months my wife decided she enjoyed the electric drive so much she wanted one for herself and decided on getting a volt. The decision on a volt versus another leaf was due to styling and her roundtrip commute of 100+ miles (extremely difficult in cold weather with...

Here in Texas its rare to see any of our local public chargers with another plug-in attached to it. More often than not, the places are iced if anything is there. My question comes to the etiquette for businesses with public chargers. This questions is more geared to ones at businesses versus...

Just to give everyone a heads-up, I recently upgraded my phone to a Galaxy Nexus running the new android 4.0.2 - Ice Cream Sandwhich. The Nissan LEAF app does NOT work with ICS. The program completely crashes during login. Using the web still works though, so until its fixed its back to the...