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After many days of silence, the alarm blasted away again last night, so the FOB is not fixed. I've removed the battery and will wait many weeks this time to conclude that for sure it is the one FOB.

It does not seem to. The little black button inside feels correct. However, I have snapped it back together taking care to put the board into the half that has the buttons so that I am sure that the little black button is sitting properly in the button hole, then I snapped the half with the...

I pulled the battery out of one of the FOBs and have not had an alarm for several days now. That FOB seems to work properly other than setting off the alarm.

My 2011 Leaf is unlocked and in the garage. The alarm sounds off randomly, with headlights flashing. It stops after a 5-20 beeps. The FOBs are sitting on the counter. I replaced the 12v battery. The problem still occurs. I checked when the alarm is blaring, and the doors are unlocked. What...

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The point is not to debate this. The point is to make the gauge give us this info. The change I am suggesting will provide this info, so we don't have to have to debate it. The circle/trees are an unbelievably stupid gauge; one where pretty much no owner comprehends what it tells you. The...

You are not comprehending what this gauge would do for you. Any gauge that shows that during regen, or when coasting, you are getting infinite efficiency is a piece of junk. This change would be useful for ICE cars too. When you push on the go pedal, energy is converted from chemical to...

Oops, I don't mean S, I mean D = Distance. (I fixed that post). We want to get a reading of m/j (meters/joules), which is what we are getting with the current economy gauge (miles/kWh). However, we want this gauge to NOT ignore the stored energy in the form of potential and kinetic. So, in my...

It seems that garygid and dgpcolorado have comprehended what I am suggesting. You have not provided any details to refute the concepts I have stated. Again, this does not create some perfect range gauge. I searched the forum for something like this but failed to find it. If there is some thread...

Right, I guess I meant a level gauge. The car can't go up a hill without raising it's nose. Even if the acceleration (both kinetic and potential) was off by 10% the gauge would still be a huge improvement over the junk we have now. The accumulated error would be hideous, but that does not...

Yes. I am not sure we want to call it a "level, contant-speed efficiency gauge". I'll bet that would confuse many. I am sure that if this gauge was the only energy gauge with respect to motion (not counting radio, lights, etc), nobody would be asking for the gauges Nissan gave us in the Leaf...

Roughly speaking: driving efficiency = D / (Kw - A) D = Distance Kw = energy going to the motor. A = energy measured from the accelerometer. This will work just fine if the energy is going into the battery from the motor (regen). The Kw will be negative and so will A. A will have both...

What is this? If this is a 3rd party meter of some sort, why not put an accelerometer in it and do what I am suggesting? You'll probably need speed to help with accumulated error.

I am still not convinced you understand what I am suggesting. I don't have a problem displaying the information in units of Kw/miles or miles/kw. Kw alone is most certainly not useful for efficiency. Efficiency is the measure of how much energy is lost to go some distance (or whatever work you...

Acceleration, passenger load, and climbing are not energy sinks. Acceleration is the conversion of chemical potential energy into kinetic energy and is not a loss. Climbing is the conversion to potential energy, and passenger load simply affects the ratio of speed to kinetic energy and height to...

I think you might be misunderstanding the gauge I am suggesting. This is not about making a better EV range meter. This is a gauge that displays your efficiency, and the 3 modes are simply different ways of displaying the information. The last two modes, show the information in terms of range...

Is there something stopping you from explaining why these assertions might be true? An accelerometer does not seem expensive, since iPhones have them, and writing the software to do the math seems easy enough. I don't see how any accuracy will be lost by doing this. The accelerometer will...

I posted "Please complain to Nissan to fix the climate control". In that thread, I argued that the white bubbles are useless and that Nissan should have provided a proper efficiency gauge. It seemed clear to me that most readers did not comprehend what a proper efficiency gauge would do and...

I agree. It took me about two days of driving my brother's Ford Ranger EV to realize the difference. On my first few trips with the EV I was careful not to use the heat or anything else that might use electricity because my instinct was to preserve the juice to extend the range. After a few...

Why does it matter whether many already have spotted the fact that the AC system does not run up the fan when it should, before I create a thread? How would I determine how common this "priority" is? Have I failed to determine that in Auto mode the fan will not go above 4/7 even if the two...