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Has anybody out there found any specs on the prototype 60kWh battery that Nissan used on the IDS concept? Based on the photos in the InsideEVs article last week it looks like they are going with parallel groups of 3 cells vs the 2 in the current Leaf...

So the other day Jeremy was telling me how he was going to rent a Fiat500e from a guy on relayrides.com... Relayrides is a peer to peer car rental service where anyone can put up their unused car for rent. The company checks out the prospective drivers, posts available vehicles ($, location...

So 3 days ago my 2012 Leaf decided it just wasn't going to charge at home anymore. Not on the Voltec EVSE L2, Not on an EVSE Upgrade @ 240V, and not on the same unit at 120V. At work (208V) the EVSE upgrade works for L2 charging but not L1. I took it into Nissan and they did the P3227 upgrade...

It looks like the vehicle controller has it's active CAN request ID at 797 with responses on 79A. It seems this can be accessed on either CAR-CAN or EV-CAN. I've tried the LBC style request format with very limited results. Jim has clearly had success with a different approach... by sending...

Or not. http://mashable.com/2013/07/15/elon-musk-hyperloop-design/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Ok, I guess we don't know what it is.. but considering the transport-geek factor here I'm surprised there isn't already a thread here with wild speculation. Hmm.. A two meter...

http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/MAGAZINE/ev_battery.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "A battery without a cooling system?" edit: oops.. sorry if this is a re-post.. the date at the top fooled me.

http://insideevs.com/nismo-your-leaf-for-about-10000-or-just-swap-the-vcm-and-get-more-performance-for-1385/

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57590471-48/tesla-battery-swap-a-dead-end/ Agree with the author's view that battery swapping is not a good idea (does it scale?) but obviously I tend to side with Chademo.. I would guess if somebody was dumb enough to invest in specialized battery swapping...

An oldie but a goodie.. http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-angerpowered-cars-may-revolutionize-the-way-we,1118/

I should put both of those in quotes.. by "capacity" I mean the Ah capacity we discovered in the Group 1 active CAN data on line 6.. 3rd, 4th and 5th bytes. Displayed on the LeafDD page 2 "C" and at the top of the ELM voltages page. By "health" I mean a 16 bit number I've been playing with...

From my friend Josh.. Josh says the car cover is sold and the organizer will most likely be sold this afternoon. --------------------- Selling accessories from when I traded in the LEAF after 2 years ownership. Available for pick-up in Pomona area. Shipping is not included in the price...

Ok, maybe 160-180. If you could replace the 66Ah modules in your Leaf (all 48 of them) for modules of the exact same dimension but with 130Ah of capacity, how much would you pay for that? The battery box, BMS and instrumentation would be unchanged, just the 48 modules themselves. Given the...

Thank you to the 140+ folks who over the last year have purchased the LeafDD (Dash Display). This has always been more of a hobby than a business and once the 150 PCBs originally ordered were consumed I decided to put the project to rest. It's been a blast and I hope the LeafDDs out there...

Time lapse of a DCQC session at AQMD in Diamond Bar, CA this morning (yes it's video of a video) Top of screen is highest of he 4 battery temps (Celsius) followed by delta Tmax-Tmin, so for example in the last frame Tmax=29.2degrees C and Tmin=25.9 degrees C. On the right side, battery current...

So with a little help from TickTock and a friend at Nissan, we've been able to replicate some of the specific CAN messages used by the technician's scan-tool to read data from the Leaf battery management system. First of course I should say that SENDING CAN messages to your Leaf (as compared to...

Last Friday I was in an accident on the northbound 57 in O.C. which it turns out was fatal to my Leaf (so Mercury has informed me this morning). I was traveling in the fast moving carpool lane when someone in 10mph traffic decided to merge about 100ft in front of me. With barely enough time to...

Looking for drivers in the San Bernardino/Riverside area (or nearby) to attend a Fontana city hearing to support a new 7-11 and L3 DC quick charger at Arrow/Juniper. The hearing will be Tuesday night August 7th at 6pm at Fontana city hall. I'll be driving up from Irvine. Their issue is more...

Ever notice the Leaf like to take away a bar or a gid here and there when you power down and back up again? So tonight I was at 2 bars, 64 gids and powered down for a bite for dinner. 40min later power up and it's down to 1 bar (no big surprise) and 63 gids..hmm.. So I power down and power back...

My trusty Prius collects dust most of the time now thanks to the new Leaf kicking it out of the garage. I need a long range car maybe 5 or 6 times a year for 30 or so days. I'm trying to decide if I'm better off selling the Prius and renting a car for long trips... Near the Tustin Nissan (a...

Tustin Nissan quoted me $1k under MSRP for my SL early this year. I took delivery just a few days after it arrived mid June (I was out of town) and all went well. Yesterday I stopped by and they had at least 4 Leafs on the property. Two were inside the showroom and one had a dealer mark up of...