Recent content by AlGrsn

The Leaf has conventional hydraulic brakes: master cylinder, four calipers and the booster/antilock/traction/stability control unit. This adds push depending on the regeneration, the pressure on the pedal. Rather than a vacuum assist reservoir the Leaf has a capacitor bank to provide emergency...

“The pedestrian warning law isn't in effect yet, nor could I find anything in the bill ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c ... 11UTU44d::) that says it's illegal to disable/change the sound. It just says that the manufacturer cannot make it so the sound can be disabled. It says nothing...

Combustion engined automatic transmission vehicles have had reverse forward or up next to P since the federal government mandated the selector sequence to P-R-N-D-X-X in 1965-66.

The reason for changing brake fluid at 12 months / 15,000 miles / 24,000 kms is that it heads off problems with the antilock brake / traction control pump, which costs thousand$ to replace and is not repairable in the field. Combustion powered cars have engine drag braking, transmission...

A "heat pump" is jargon for a reversible heat pump. For cooling ("Air Conditioning") the radiator inside the dashboard is an evaporator; the radiator out front ahead of the engine or drive motor-reduction gearbox-inverter cooling radiator or, in the Leaf, beside it, is the condenser. When...