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I bought a Volt in February of this year and expect to get the $7500 federal tax credit next year for the 2013 tax return. I'm also looking into installing a solar panel system on my roof this year. I can get 30% federal tax credit on the solar panels as well, and I'm told it can carry over if I...

My LEAF has recently started having random popping noise (for lack of a better description) that seems to come from under the dashboard somewhere. The noise is only when the car is moving, and is very random. You can go over a hump or pothole and not hear anything, or you can hear it while...

I was at the Mayo hospital in Scottsdale AZ yesterday and they have 3 Blink charging stations there. I was able to "login" with my Blink card, but upon connecting the J1772 to my car, the Blink errors out with some kind of "self test" error message. I tried the second Blink station, same...

So I'm in Phoenix where normally I come home with 7 temperature bars. Obviously Nissan says to wait for battery to cool down first before charging. It can take a LONG time for the battery to cool down to 6 bars inside a hot garage in Phoenix. Now here's my other dilemma: Sometimes I come...

Not sure if I've seen a thread on this yet, so I figure I'd start one. I went to have my second (15K miles) free tire rotation done at Discount Tire last weekend and they told me that my tires are pretty much worn out. They said that maybe I can get one more rotation out of it, but will...

I have T-mobile and in my recent bill, there was an unauthorized charge of $10 showing up. I called Tmobile and asked them and they said it's for some b.s. service that I didn't recognize. So I told them to block all chargeable messages on my phone line going forward. Well, guess what? I no...

For those of you who are not in the habit of resetting your energy efficiency reading often, I'm curious to know what your average miles/kwH number looks like? Mine is 4.6 m/kwh on the dashboard and 4.7 m/kwh on the Energy screen (not sure why the difference, both were reset at the same time)...

I wanted the car to charge to 100% by 5am end time this Friday morning but it didn't. I'm pretty sure I reprogrammed Timer2 on the Leaf set to 100% with 5am end time and set Timer2 to Friday. I reprogrammed Timer2 after midnight on Friday morning. Woke up at 5am on Friday to find that the car...

I got a solicitation from Morpace in the mail today for an online survey with a promise of a $20 check from them in the mail if I complete the survey. They have a unique ID/password for me to login. I completed their survey. The most interesting part was the 12 scenarios of 4 different types...

Let's say you want to reach the speed of 45mph in city driving before you start gliding. Accelerating with 3 bubbles to the right of the center bubble will get you to the 45mph mark faster than accelerating with 1 bubble to the right of the center bubble. So while it expends more energy, it...

Oh, as far as pulse and glide goes, you pulse up to a certain speed, then start gliding by feathering the pedal such that the electric motor energy indicator is right a 0 kw, meaning you're neither consuming energy nor regenerating on the motor. So the question is, are you really consuming 0...

I program my Leaf timer1 for anytime charging at 80% (12am-12pm) and timer2 with only end charging time at 9am today for 100% charge. I plugged it in last night and the Leaf timer1 started charging and stopped at 80%. I expected timer2 to resume charging the Leaf again this morning some time...

Page 5-8 and 5-9 in the manual talks about the power switch operation. It says it has 4 modes, ACC, ON, OFF, LOCK. It shows a flow on top of page 5-8 where the only way to go to LOCK is to open or close any door while in OFF. But why bother having the LOCK position and cause confusion and...

I started noticing today that my security indicator light (page 2-34 of manual, red car icon with key pic inside) is always blinking every 3 seconds now, even when my car is unlocked and turned off, sitting inside my garage, regardless of whether the key fob is nearby or not. I never notice...

My Leaf's low tire pressure warning came on yesterday. I measured them out and one was 36 psi, a couple at 35 psi, and one at 33 psi. I put them all back to 36psi and the low tire pressure warning light went away. This makes me wonder what is supposed to be the trigger point for the warning...

I have a couple of questions about regen. 1. I've heard a few different numbers about regen efficiency. Some poster said you can only get back 30% of the power from regen. Others mention 80% efficiency. Which is it? And if it's only at 30%, why is there so much loss? 2. I understand that...

I just discovered today that my Carwings has stopped recorded driving data since 7/26. It recorded data just fine since the day I took the car home until 7/25. Any idea why?

I reset the average energy economy number on the dashboard and the average economy number on the Energy Display window (the Navigation screen) at the same time before going on a trip today. When I got home, I had 2 different values for both of these. The one on the dashboard showed 4.7, but...

My current Blink is rated at 30A max, but the spec says it's configurable to 12, 16 or 24A. If you take 24A x 240V, you'd only get 5.76 kW. That's not 6.6 kW. So how are you going to be able to maximize the 6.6 kW charger at 24A on the current Blink station? If somehow you can tap the max...

There's rumor that the new 1.7A firmware is going to be pushed out soon. Anybody has any idea what's new in the 1.7A firmware?