Recent content by Chuy1530

Been doing my best with this. There are a lot of hills where I drive though, and typically a good number of cars around me, so I try to drive ‘normally’ as much as possible. I’m a long term coast-to-the-light guy though since I hated converting gasoline into brake dust, so I do decently with...

Two weeks in I’m getting 3.9 mi/kWh (god those mixed units...), probably 80% of which is from my 20 mile round trip commute on city roads with too many stop signs. Eco mode and e-pedal, and fairly liberal use of the climate control. I’m driving a 2018 SV.

Ah, now convince my wife to remember to follow that rule! I can’t even get her to not run the dishwasher when I’m in the shower...

It’s moot for me anyway since I’ve confirmed my dryer just plugs into a normal outlet and I’m using a dedicated 120 for my EVSE, but I would think the amp draw from having a Y hooked to your EVSE and dryer would be a concern too.

That makes sense. I’ve got an engineering background so I get what you’re saying about it not being designed to cycle forever. The 120 I’m using is only used for this and I don’t unplug the EVSE from the wall luckily.

I didn’t know that was a problem. It seemed like a lot of people were just unplugging their dryer to charge their car and then switching it back after. Is that really a concern? Either way, it isn’t something I’m doing, but I thought it was pretty common practice to use a plug (even a 120) for...

So I’ve confirmed the old dryer circuit in the garage was cannibalized to run the AC. There’s no power running to the plug and flipping the 30A breakers did make my AC go off. This was definitely some DIY stuff by my landlord (who also happens to be my wife’s grandfather.) I didn’t think to...

The dryer is electric but it plugs into a normal 120V plug. There are two 30A breakers in the breaker box. I suppose I could flip them and see if it turns off my AC... But the best way for me to know for sure is going to be to go borrow the multimeter. The good news is I’m having to leave my...

After some further digging I’ve found a few things. One, my dryer plugs into a normal 120 plug. There is a different plug in the garage from an old dryer but it’s a 10-30. I’m also a little suspicious that the circuit that that outlet was on may have been cannibalized for our air conditioning...

I definitely blame, in order, myself and the dealer. Not the car at all. But come on dealer, you sell a ton of leafs (they never once tried to push me to take a gas car, just newer leafs, which they had a lot of,) have a working charger. Whoever said my wife would be trying to steal my car is...

Yep, I’ll likely almost never be using public charging. The leaf is to get me to and from work and the store which are just 20ish miles round trip. We have a gas car for long trips. I believe I have this right, but I could L2 charge with a 240V dryer plug in, right? I have the L2 plug since it...

Got my leaf yesterday. A 2018 SL, which is the exact model I had kept my eye out for for a while but they rarely seemed to come up used (which is a good sign I think.) Got a good deal on it, and it’s my first EV. I love driving it, and this may be a specific gripe about the dealer I bought it...