Recent content by mikeyd810

I'm curious to see what the MPG rating will be on the new engine, if they can get it to 45mpg I think differences would be negligible when comparing to a Prius. One thing I do know for sure is there will be a five seater but I don't know if that will come at the cost of battery size. A 6.6kw...

Nice surprise, been keeping an eye for used Leaf's in the Southeast Michigan area. Wonder how much the labor will be to swap the packs though :?:

While I'll agree the Prius has a far superior ICE mpg you can't compare the Volts 37MPG EPA number to a 60MPG no EPA number, EPA ratings are 35/40 and 51/48 respectively so lets keep that in context.

It's be nice one day if all manufactuers has a common charger speed, probably will never work out that with technology advances but once we get to fast enough would be nice :D

Timed billing is better if you have a faster charger versus a slow charger, it's only better in all respects in your opinion. From a power usage standpoint though in the middle of a day during peak usage charging by kwh used is a more effective way to bill for actual cost used and protect from...

I think given what you have outlined I would probably do another lease, saves you from having the down payment hopefully and should hopefully lower your monthly payment. We're all unfortunately in this bad area between major model refreshes. IMHO i wouldn't worry about building equity in a car...

So you can get an idea here's an example of my TOU meter and regular meter from DTE. You'll see some off peak and on peak stats for charging (215 KWH and 56 KWH) respectively. Distribution is almost a cent cheaper so that helps a bit as well.

Interesting layout for those spots, any chance he was charging via the J1772 and the Leaf took the cord? Wondering if the J1772 cord would reach over to the driver side of the Volt parked like that.