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With nearly 3 years owning a LEAF as my daily driver, I feel it's time to express my true thoughts. The one thing that's great about the LEAF is its electric drivetrain: Simple, reliable, performs well. Also I like the UV-blocking windows and the quiet windshield wipers (features which are not...

Just saw this ad airing on CBS today. It seems to be a subtle dig on vehicles that are not powered by their product. After telling how amazingly long a smart phone would run if powered by a gallon of gasoline instead of a battery, it proceeds to the punchline: "Because of gasoline's high energy...

Just thought I'd share this here. On a recent trip to the mountains I had to stop for a short emergency charge at the small store there. The store just happens to have a webcam. ;)

Many of you know that I have been making adapter cables for Ingineer's EVSE upgrade and selling them on eBay and on my website evseadapters.com Essentially I take a dryer cord, cut it shorter, and stick an L6-20 plug on the end of it. While that works just fine, a fully molded cord would be...

Here's my solution to keeping my mp3 library at hand. It's cheap, inconspicuous, and always in the car! As you can see, it's so small it's easy to keep it plugged in all the time. It's barely noticeable, so would not attract thieves like an iPod would. This is even smaller than typical...

When stopped and powered off, at periodic intervals strange sliding or clonking type sounds emanate from under the hood. The sounds come at periodic intervals, every few minutes. I first noticed these when I had to stop for a few minutes to charge while on a road trip just a couple months into...

Today I received a Carwings Information Feed. This is the third time this happened, and I've had the car since last May. What happens is, suddenly on the screen is pops up, Carwings Information Feed. It appears to be playing an audio file which is silent for a few seconds and ends in a...

Currently my car is 50% charged, and when I log in to Carwings to check the status it tells me I can go a whopping 5 miles!! Note, the DTE meter in the car is much more accurate - it says my range at 50% is about 40 miles. Just one reason why Carwings is a big joke. Hey Nissan, if you're not...

For the past week or so I have been unable to view images on autobloggreen and the comments count isn't showing up either. When I click on a headline I can view images in the article, but on the home page none of the images show up. On the autoblog site everything is ok. Am I the only one...

Well, I just got back home, parked in the driveway and pressed the button to power off. Then I noticed the nav was still all lit up. The dash was completely dark except for the security light that always blinks when the car is off. But the nav was still all lit up. So I pressed the power button...

Well, today daylight savings time ended. So for those who forgot, it's time to turn the clocks back an hour. I hoped the car's clocks would automatically adjust for daylight savings, but it didn't. For the clock in the touchscreen, you need to go into the clock settings menu (Menu > Settings >...

I guess spotting a Leaf on an auto transporter truck is no longer newsworthy ... but I had to share the sighting anyway! ;) The truck is parked by an abandoned warehouse just over a block from my house. Trucks often park here. I noticed among all the cars is a new blue Leaf demo vehicle headed...

I have stored some locations in the nav but I don't remember the addresses for all of them. Can someone tell me how to retrieve the address of a stored location?

Currently I have the following adapters for sale. I'll update this list as I get more types available. http://www.evseadapters.com NEMA 14-30/14-50/14-60 (208 or 240V, dryer & campground outlets) NEMA 10-30/10-50 (208 or 240V, dryer outlet) NEMA L14-30 (208 or 240V, generator plug) NEMA L6-30...

Here is a kilowatt-hour energy meter I just finished putting together. It keeps track of the total KWH used, showing it on the digital display in 0.1 KWH increments - and with its L6-20 connectors it plugs right in to the modified EVSE. The meter works on 120 or 240 volts, just like the upgraded...

One really handy feature offered by Carwings is the car can send you a text message or email in the event that charging stops (for example, if it gets unplugged or trips a circuit breaker). It can also tell you when charging has completed. The notification will include the charge level so you...

I understand these Clarion units can be upgraded to include HD radio capability with the purchase of their THD400 HD radio tuner add-on. Has anyone tried this? http://www.clarion.com/us/en/products/2011/audio/accessories/THD400/us-en-product-pf_1259459740741.html

It used to be that when the vehicle was charging I would try to turn on the air conditioner but it would only blow hot air. Basically it stayed in accessory mode. So I had to either use the web portal or unplug the car and run off the battery to pre-cool it. Recently, something has changed with...

I wonder if hauling around a small step-up transformer would make it possible to charge at level 2 rate from 30-amp service (120V). The upgraded rev2 EVSE draws 16 amps at 240V, so using a transformer would double it to 32 amps at 120V. Unfortunately, that's a bit more than 30 amps so it might...

Went from Exeter to Mineral King the other day. It was an experiment in completely draining the battery on a long steep climb, then relying on regenerative braking on the way back to make it home again - and it was a success! :) The first half of the route is highway and mostly level, then the...