Axel
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I took the plunge and bought a Leaf after having to rent one from Hertz when a fork lift took out the door of my Prius. Hertz has since given up on the Leaf as a rental, which is a shame, but it gave me a chance to fall in love with how it drives and I got to debug the whole going to work drive over Hwy 17 - it worked like a charm for 10 days. It was incredibly painful to go back to the Prius, and even more painful to go back to gas stations to get gas.
I don't get range anxiety, but I sure get my share of charge anxiety, i.e. finding a charging station at work so I actually get to go home at the end of the day. So far, so good, and I've had to pay only once at $0.50/hour. (And I've learned to boycott BLINK stations that charge $2/hour in front of Wallmart - I say, WTH? BLINK, are you crazy?, this is not how you give an incentive to go electric.) Thankfully electric is free everywhere in Santa Cruz, but not over the hill in Mountain View. Sadly there are more charging stations in Santa Cruz where there is no grid promotion program than there is over the hill if you don't count Google. Just about everywhere I shop in Santa Cruz I get to plug in - Wallgreen's Staff of Life, Pacific Avenue, etc....
To relieve the issue, and perhaps get better battery life, I need to be able to get a full charge in 8 hours at home. So I took the plunge and ordered a modified charger from EVSE since I have a 240V in the garage. I think that's the Ingineer user on this board? Our Nissan Dealer gave him rave reviews. I certainly got excited over this solution, which is way more attractive to me than buying a charging station and seems like it provides far more value to an end user than a charging station ever would.
Does anyone know how long it takes? I paid and sent in my waiver, but I haven't gotten a "will ship in x days" confirmation. It's not even been a week, so perhaps shame on me for my desire for instant gratification, but I am still curious as to how long I can expect to wait.
I don't get range anxiety, but I sure get my share of charge anxiety, i.e. finding a charging station at work so I actually get to go home at the end of the day. So far, so good, and I've had to pay only once at $0.50/hour. (And I've learned to boycott BLINK stations that charge $2/hour in front of Wallmart - I say, WTH? BLINK, are you crazy?, this is not how you give an incentive to go electric.) Thankfully electric is free everywhere in Santa Cruz, but not over the hill in Mountain View. Sadly there are more charging stations in Santa Cruz where there is no grid promotion program than there is over the hill if you don't count Google. Just about everywhere I shop in Santa Cruz I get to plug in - Wallgreen's Staff of Life, Pacific Avenue, etc....
To relieve the issue, and perhaps get better battery life, I need to be able to get a full charge in 8 hours at home. So I took the plunge and ordered a modified charger from EVSE since I have a 240V in the garage. I think that's the Ingineer user on this board? Our Nissan Dealer gave him rave reviews. I certainly got excited over this solution, which is way more attractive to me than buying a charging station and seems like it provides far more value to an end user than a charging station ever would.
Does anyone know how long it takes? I paid and sent in my waiver, but I haven't gotten a "will ship in x days" confirmation. It's not even been a week, so perhaps shame on me for my desire for instant gratification, but I am still curious as to how long I can expect to wait.