Recent content by rainnw

A year and a half ago, I built a system that allows driver to communicate their charging intentions with one another. We now have over 100 Seattle area EV drivers on the system. I think its robust enough to share with other EV drivers at this point. It is called ChargeSticker...

haha, website on the blink again i take it. It started working again, although its a bit intermittent now. I just read the news about ecotality, and then saw a blank website, and was concerned about getting home.

Any idea if this is an unrelated outage, or is their charging network down as well?

I won't be buying these, but i am curious how someone knows these devices in particular are stolen. Pallets of junk show up on ebay all the time ... bankruptcy, liquidation, foreclosed storage, etc. which can be sold at hefty discounts. All the posts on these threads appear to be wild...

A couple minutes of QC will make this commute possible. But it'll get old by the end of the week. You probably need about 2-3kW extra to make it comfortably.

Im glad they fixed that. Buckling is such an ordeal in the 2011.

Coming back from OS to Lacy, my LBW always comes on as im entering the 45 zone coming up to I5.

Yes, do it. Its not a bad idea. We have a place out in Ocean Shores just south of downtown, and in the warmer months, I can easily pull up before LBW. This is a difficult route. I drive 75 miles on a daily basis to work, mostly at aggressive freeway speeds, which i think is damn easy, but...

I hope none of you go anywhere near making design decisions at Nissan :roll: High beams randomly coming on with the heater and air conditioner running? Forcing people to select 100% every time? Using that horrible app 90 minutes before i plan to leave to top off? It would be a blood bath in...

Thats actually a high quality aftermarket sunroof. You can go cheaper, but it sure won't look like that.

US Seattle folks probably added an hour or two to that drive chatting with Tony. But it was great talking with him about EVs, and now I can proudly wear a bright yellow shirt to brighten up these grey seattle days.

What a lowlife thing for an employee to do, thats a step below from an employee parking in customer handicap parking. Especially since their landlord is not even their employer. The last thing i'd want is to anger the landlord and have them complain to the company i worked for. When I used...

At over 20,000 miles and closing in on a year at the end of the month, i have not lost any of the "high voltage battery status" bars.

Must have cost Nissan a small fortune....

I have to deal with this crap all the time with some circuit designs that use Li+ batteries (frankly, it goes for any battery technology). Different lithium chemistries have different specific characteristics, each OEM has unique ways of implementing the chemistry, and from cell to cell...