Recent content by ml194152

You are not eligible for the EV tax credit if you are rich enough to have to pay the alternative tax. :D

That's an interesting calculation. But this doesn't account for the differing costs of electricity from what the EPA used. For example, I pay only 8.7 cents per KW. I bet the EPA used a higher figure for their electric rate.

That sounds more like the MAXIMUM gas mileage of a Jeep Cherokee. From http://www.fueleconomy.gov" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (for 2001 cherokee): 14 mpg city, 18 mpg highway.

Because in order to minimize the load on the grid, you want to avoid charging at times when the grid is being heavily used. People get home after 5pm and start turning on electical devices like AC/heat.

My wife got a speeding ticket for going 26 MPH in her Leaf in a 20 MPH school zone :o .

Home Depot is saying "out of stock online" for the Schneider.

The only problem we had in 4 months so far was a flat in each tire on the same side of the Leaf at the same instant. My wife hit a pothole :o . Roadside assistance came and towed the Leaf to the Nissan dealer (no charge to us) and the dealer replaced both tires (Bridgestone Ecopias), $500...

You don't need to push any buttons. My wife, whose car it is, says all she does is push the nozzle into the port on the car until it clicks and then she pushes more until it stops. Thats all there is to it. She says this works first time every time.

Carwings has never worked for me *with the car inside our garage*. However, it works fine as soon as the car is out on the driveway or on the road.

I had my Schneider unit installed in my garage on May 27 by a local electrician ($475, and he did a great job). I paid $810 for the EVSE, plus tax from my local Schneider distributor (who said the Houston warehouse has 20 of these in stock). This is a great unit, its been working fine, no...

Yep, I'm real surprised there is no mention of a 6KW charger on the 2012. That was announced by Nissan several months ago (and reported here) and Nissan said they already have the supplier chosen and that the 6KW charger is actually smaller than the 3KW charger. They also said there woukd be an...

Nope, it went straight from Month of May to "Week of 4/18/2011". But overnight it has now changed to "Week of 4/28/2011".

My delivery date changed last night from 4/18/2011 to 4/28/2011. Its going the wrong way for me! :x

I just got my "Month of May, 2011" changed to "Week of April 18". Yahoo!! I ordered on Oct.4, here in Texas. Looks like I got the last boat out before the tsunami!

The bad thing about this idea is that, other than helping lower income people affort a Leaf, it also results in giving rich people free money they don't need. The way the current system is structured prevents people who are well off enough to be paying the AMT tax from getting the EV rebate...