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With a 10 hour workday if you charge all day you'll be very close to 100 percent for the ride home which should be no problem. I would try it a few times to see how it works out--you'll definitely save a lot of gas!

One of the Ford dealerships here also owns the Nissan dealership where I got my Leaf. They are the "certified" Leaf dealer in town (or whatever you call it) and I had no choice but to order my Leaf through them if I wanted to buy from a local dealer. In one of their commercials for a Ford...

I've been able to do it. If I remember right you just press the "N" button with the red arrow on it on the right side of the map and north will always be up.

Keep in mind your heater or A/C in summer. Without climate control you're using almost no energy when stopped at lights, but with the heater running you're using a lot. This is such a short commute range is not an issue. I would pick the more enjoyable drive. My commute is almost the exact...

Make sure you hit the recirculation button. The car always defaults back to fresh air and the cold air is getting in even when climate control is off.

A headwind might account for the decreased range that night. Three days ago I got low m/kwh numbers on my way home and the ambient temp was normal but there was about a 15 mph headwind.

I bought one of these heaters from Harbor Freight too. I'm very happy with the heater-- it keeps my feet warm and on the energy usage screen I don't see any difference at all when I turn it on and off. How do you know how much energy it's drawing? I'm back up to around 4.5 on the dash instead...

True! The volume of air in the car vs. the room is a lot smaller though. And if I were to sit 12 inches away from the space heater I wouldn't care as much as what the temp on the other side of the room is. You're right, the Nissan engineers have done an awesome job--I just need to vent a...

Usually Eco, but even in D if I don't preheat the car it takes several minutes to get hot air, just like an ICE. I was hoping for instant heat.

GRA makes some excellent points. My wife was taking the car out the other night and I gave her a crash course in how to manage the heater. I don't want my wife to have to think about the heater. I think many of us have been surprised at just how big a drain the heater is on the battery and I...

Are you driving in D or ECO? Eco will limit the power used by the heater and should increase range. It was in the low 30s and snowing yesterday and I switched from ECO to D and cranked it to 90 on the temp because I wanted some real heat from the heater on the drive home. In the summer with...

I like the old fashioned red and blue dial too. All the digital stuff automatically switching from circulate to fresh air when I change modes bugs me too. We have a 2002 Altima with the red and blue dial, a button to press when you want recirculation and a button to press for AC (cold). It...

I've been charging to 80% during the week on 120V. I have the climate control timer set for the morning. The last 2 days (which have been in the mid-30s) in the morning when I get in the car it's already down to 9 bars instead of the usual 10. What I think is happening is the preheating in...

I have three rain barrels positioned around my house and use them to water a couple of trees and plants. Here in El Paso we've only had 4 inches of rain this year compared to 7 inches through Sept. in a regular year. Go to amazon.com and search rain barrel. They have a good selection at fair...

We've had our Leaf since the middle of June and have driven 3500 miles or a little over 1000 miles per month with only 120V charging using 80% during the week and 100% on weekends. We seem to get 5 miles per hour of charge, so Tony Williams's calculations look good to me. I think it depends...

A couple of months ago I used my stopwatch and the mile markers on the side of the freeway and set the cruise control to 60mph and it took between 62 or 63 seconds to travel each mile (give or take). So yes the speedometer is reading higher than our actual speed.

How much does it cost to charge on the fast charger?

Let's say you charge 80% and we'll call that 80 miles on the Leaf. Compare that to a 25mpg car: 80/25 * 3.50 per gallon of gas is $11.20 per half hour divided by 30 minutes is about $.37/minute. I'd pay 50 cents a minute. I think a per minute rate is the fairest because no two charges...

That's funny! I heard the same rattle and was driving with my ear to the dashboard until I too discovered it was my sunglasses in the overhead compartment! And yes, they are burning hot when I take them out after being parked outside for a while.

We got our Leaf last Friday from Casa Nissan in El Paso. We were the first of 4 in the city that were delivered last week with 5 more coming in August. Casa calls themselves the "Nice Guys" on their commercials, and after a slow start everything went smoothly. Sal, Mahmood, and Jeff treated...