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I recently had the chance to drive one of the those "long distance" cars they are making now. I thought I'd share some of the highlights. This one is a Prius, made by Toyota. It uses a liquid petroleum distillate fuel which is stored in a 12 gallon tank. The car can travel around 450 miles...

A week ago, while in reverse, the image from the backup camera nearly disappeared. It was just kind of shadows, but since the image was still evident, that ruled out dumb things like "not really in reverse", etc. I thumped the screen and the image came back. The next time it happened I...

During some unrelated web surfing, I happened across the Wikipedia article for SD cards. There's a reference there to some "questionable" cards, and leading thence to the go-to guy for all your electronics industry eyebrow raising, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang. This is fairly technical, but anyone...

"...now it is required for the manufacturers to provide TSBs to the Department of Transportation, who in turn must make the information available to consumers." http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/07/technical-service-bulletins-now-available-to-the-public.html"...

SDG&E apparently marches to their own internal drummer, and has gone off Daylight Savings Time as of today (Sunday). Or perhaps their infrastructure is based on Windows 98 :D Accordingly, they included a note in their bill, and sent out special notices informing us that during the Week Of...

Nissan states that charging to 100% from 80% (or above) is not good for the battery. While I can think of things that may happen near a full charge, 80% doesn't sound to me like it's "that close" to a full charge. Especially if we figure there is a little extra hidden headroom to start with...

What if the Blink gets stuck charging? I know the immediate follow-on question is, "Can the Blink really get stuck?" Last night, the Blink was in a typical "behaving badly" mode, where you couldn't connect to it via the network. It was charging the car at the time. I have read somewhere, and...

The one useful page I've been using from my phone is the one that tells you the state of charge and allows you to "hit the charge button" remotely. It is generally accessible via the URL https://www.nissanusa.com/owners although I have about a dozen similar routes that all seem to go to the...

Something occurred to me, and I've been telling this story for a short while. When we get EV's in large enough numbers, the demand for gasoline will decrease, and then the prices will drop. And then, of course, "they" will say, "Oh, there's no gas crisis..." Consider this spurious...

I have had my LEAF for only a week, so I may discover some "newbie factors" to help understand my problem. As a Prius driver, though, I'm not exactly new to the energy game. The range of my LEAF seems awfully limited. If I start out with a full charge (and something like 88 mi range) and drive...