Recent content by hyperlexis

Well, I met Jesse White at an election night rally for Gov. Quinn -- I told him how much I liked him, but I begged him to please, please change the Illinois EV license plate because it is so ugly! He laughed and asked what the plate was (omg!!!), then ordered his aide to come over to discuss...

They are closing/demolishing the Des Plaines tollway oasis???? Will they be replacing it? The L3 charger?

Hi everyone --I just won my condo board election, so there may be hope yet for me to get an EV! Whohoo! Does anyone who lives in a condo (or rental Bldg.). actually have a copy of your building's rules and regs. that allow for and regulate EV charging in your garage? My bldg. is a large high...

I can attest the Evanston dealership is great. Excellent staff and very nice waiting room. Also they said they would be installing a new L3 charger for Leaf buyers. However, did it ever come up during the event about what is going on with Illinois' L3 charging network? That uses the...

Do other EVs with battery cooling use a Freon-based system or a coolant based one? 90 degrees is really not that bad, and certainly a coolant-based system could handle that. An auto engine gets much hotter than that, over 212 degrees, and uses a coolant-based system. And, frankly, even if a...

You also have to consider the high maintenance and repair costs battery cooling will require you to pay in the future. Xpost from: Update on Battery Warranty Enhancement for 2011 & 2012 LEAF

Are they going to issue a recall or TSB to retrofit existing Leaf's in hot weather areas? There are far too many of them out there to ignore.

Well one could argue that because there is only so much arable land in the US suitable for growing feed corn, by using it more for ethanol, denying its availability to cattle ranchers and pig farms, etc., it drives up the cost of meat, decreases its consumption, and thus decreases the greenhouse...

Horse corn is not any food I would want to eat.... That's what they make ethanol out of. Feed corn no human could even consume... Rather, that feed corn diverted for ethanol would otherwise be fed to animals whose very existence actually worsens global warming and still very inefficiently...

Not smart. Plain old gasoline gummed up with age and had water separation problems during storage long before ethanol mandates ever were created. In fact, ethanol gas may even be better because the water in the gas tank will not drop out, like regular gas, rusting the tank and lines. Anyone...

This was one of my outstanding questions -- so the Leaf cools the electronics with radiator coolant, including the charger all the way back in the hatch? 1.) I assume this coolant loop also preheats the cabin heating coolant in winter; and 2.) Can the coolant loop be tapped into and rerouted...

Honestly, either Nissan or the other automakers need to install L3s themselves, the government should cut out the middleman and do it themselves, or the electricity utilities or, gasp, oil companies should do it at gas stations. Regarding L2s its more tricky. I'm not an economist, but I don't...

Everyone keeps saying the Tesla is the solution to all their problems (If I could buy a $60k car, I wouldn't have many problems....) And yes the Tesla is as close to perfect, even per Consumer Reports, as an EV can get. I test drove one and definitely concur! But what, prey tell, are Tesla...

This is true -- while direct, it was not a very refined comment in that respect and I apologize.

No not at all. I'm saying you're a self-centered hypocrite who would gladly take handouts from taxpayers for yourself and yourself alone, but for people needing L3 public charging stations, including those actually wanting to travel farther than the neighborhood store, well if the government...