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On the last day for making amendments to the 2016-17 budget and other bills, the "Clean Vehicle Rebate Program", or CVRP, received new funding to begin sending out rebates again. They had run out of cash and started putting people on a waiting list about three months ago (June 10th, 2016)...

Wouldn't it be great if someone on his staff convinced him to do so? Can you imagine what such a thing would do for the 'movement', and the image of EVs?? If only Fiat weren't so anti-EV and made one a little bigger than the 500e...

So thanks to Google Maps leading us onto a highway instead of a frontage road with ~1 mile remaining, we were forced to drive around 5 more miles (to the next exit and back around). I was amazed that we made it about 3 miles before we hit Turtle (especially since some of that was at low freeway...

You might have skipped this topic (Vandalism caught on camera) without realizing that it took place in your metro Atlanta (Forsyth county), even though it was posted by 'atlleaf'. I'd love to hear that the authorities solved the crime. Do any of you northeast Atlantans have further information...

Call me naive, but it seems to me that there are plenty of features of electric vehicles and electrification of transportation in general that should appeal to both sides of the political aisle. And yet, for some reason(s), the right has become quite anti-EV, anti-Tesla, and even (or...

To me, almost as much fun &or challenge it is maximizing efficiency and range, is seeing how little I can use the friction brakes (within reason and safety). Granted, my driving habits have changed since becoming a "LeAFer" :), but in the seven months I've had my 2015, I swear I've worn the...

Ok, so I've got 7300 miles on my 2015 S and I took it to a dealer (not the one I bought it from) for what in my head was the 7500-mile scheduled maintenance. What I think I said though was, "I want my tires rotated", because that's really all the 'maintenance' that I've ever had done in 2+...

If anyone else in Bay Area (particularly the peninsula, which is 60-70 miles away) thinks Antioch would be a good location for a quick charger, please use the contact form on their site to send a note to the management saying as much. Look at plugshare with just the high-powered chargers...

That's from a print ad for (GM's) Cadillac ELR that I just happened to come across (I don't even know which magazine it was in; the page had been torn out an abandoned). Anyway, I get the double entendre -- yuk-yuk -- but really, is the connotation of danger, shock &or pain really something you...

Last week I was rudely notified (by certified mail) that I had many hundreds of dollars of "excessive wear" on the 2012 I recently turned in at the end of its two-year lease. I'm a bit upset for a number of reasons: There was no itemized list of what was wrong with it, or their corresponding...

So, I was wondering how many miles I have to drive to "earn" $1000 compared to driving my old (or any) ICE. And here's what I came up with to estimate it, a bit more generalized: T ------------------------------ M == ppg...

I'm not sure I completely understand the "contract" part of this new approach to charging, but I hope the concept (if not ubitricity itself) makes its way to the U.S. It would be a big first step in bringing street-side charging to many "urbanites" and others without designated parking spots...

So, apparently eVgo has started sending out email alerts as to when quick-chargers in your area become non-operational and then, too, when they come back online. I've received 3 "Down" notices and 2 "Back in Service" in the past week. The most recent "Down" alert I received was on Tuesday for...

I'm one week into a 3-year "12k" lease and am just realizing that I may need more than 1,000 miles per month. (I think low-mileage months early in my previous lease brought my average into the 900s, "hiding" the fact that later months were well over 1000.) Anyway, this brought to mind two...

I made the unfortunate discovery yesterday that turning my vehicle on while quick-charging caused the NRG eVgo unit I was using to stop charging. This is a unit at a dealer which had only recently been assimilated by the Borg, I mean nrgeVgo. Prior to a month ago when that changeover took...

Using conservative guesses and calculations, here's what I come up with: For each 1% of the passenger/light-duty fleet that transitions to electric, roughly $3.5 billion per year stays in the U.S. [economy] rather than going overseas for petroleum, and roughly $50 million per year is saved on...

Yesterday I wrote to the contact email on the EZ-charge.com site asking about what appeared to be a less-than-up-to-date map at https://www.ez-charge.com/stations/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Today I got a reply from a representative at NRG/eVgo... (Why?) -- If they're...

So much for any environmental benefits for that recent trip :|. At 10 mpg and 150 miles for the tow truck, it'll take a month or two of driving the LEAF to "make up for it". The story: I stopped at the first quick charger without checking plugshare, because in two years I had never had a...

Anyone else get this email and/or error? The email came around 1:15pm PST and had an introductory question -- Do you have an EV charger in your home? Both the Yes and No button lead me to the following: Error establishing a database connection Now, the problem might be quite temporary or...

I'm only half serious, but I've go to ask. Silly me, I was unaware of the big difference when I got the deal on my current two-year lease. Of course, the deal may only have been available for the two-year version; they may have factored in the $2500 and adjusted terms accordingly to make my...