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I have a MY2011 with 100K+ miles on it. It's down to 8 capacity bars and pretty soon I won't be able to complete my 1 way commute on a full charge. It's time for me to take action. I'm considering a battery replacement and I have a question for those who got a new battery in their LEAFs: I...

Yesterday, I had to unexpectedly leave work early and had to use the fast charge to make it to my appointment. It was a "do or die" situation. With half a dozen QC stations on the LEAF's GPS map along the way - 3 of them I had used at least once before - I felt confident it was going to be easy...

Not sure if that's been posted already. Cool demo...lition http://insideevs.com/nissan-leaf-battery-cell-destruction-video-no-fire-just-a-little-smoke/

Yesterday I finally got the time to tackle this small project I had in mind for a while now: insulating the heater's coolant pipes on my MY11 LEAF. Several pipes and a plastic tank are getting quite warm under the hood when the heater is running and I noticed there was no heat insulation other...

I like that if for any reason my car has stopped charging, I'll know within seconds via a Carwings text messages. But Carwings also sends a lot of useless messages such as each time I update the car status via the App. Until a few days ago it was bearable: all the messages came from the same...

Spare J1772 socket + a diode and a resistor + a switch + a USB power brick = the most unpractical phone charger.

I'm not sure how to best describe what I experienced this morning "Wobbly" is the first word that came up to me. I was going downhill on US 101 just outside of San Francisco (southbound, just before Candlestick for those who live here). Gentle and regular slope. No bumps on the road. I was...

The Nissan Tama. No QC and GPS was yet to be invented. http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/02/nissan-tama-ev-1947-postwar-japan/

I don't know about the rest of the country but in the San Francisco bay area, ChargePoint seem to be the most developed public charging station network. Blink has the most DC Quick charger but when it comes to L2, ChargePoint is all over the place. That's the good news. The bad news is it...

a.k.a. Service recall P1273 VCM LBC TCU NTB12-014. I got this pushed in my car yesterday during my 15K maintenance visit. It took the technician a while (3+ hours) because according to the clerk at the service desk 3 ECUs had to be updated. But when I asked him what the recall was supposed to...

My company is in the process of planing the installation of EVSE. We're moving to a new location. The move was the excuse they gave for not investing earlier and as the moving date gets closer and closer they keep on pulling new excuses for not having any process to report. The latest one to...

I keep on running into posts from people reporting charging problems. Often the Blink charging station seem to be in the picture... Has anyone who got the AV EVSE encountered problems such as: - car not charging when it was supposed to. - Amber light of death Just curious...

I just saw the news about Washington and Oregon states installing more L3 CHAdeMO charging stations. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-fast-charging-stations-in-ore-will-expand-electric-car-range-from-city-to-country/2011/08/18/gIQAvPDEOJ_story.html In the meanwhile, the state...

Today I got curious about the value SOC displayed in percent on the Web portal. I was wondering why this data didn't appear on the iPhone app. I used IE debug mode to snoop at the data received from the Carwings servers when I hit the refresh button. I looked through the "Response Body" and...

Around here there are probably not many people who need to be convinced that an EV is a far better way to get around that an ICE when it comes to efficiency and CO2 emissions. And this is probably known to many of the people on this forum. However when discussing this matter with sceptics, I...

He got me by surprise on the left flank while I was cruizing at 60mph in heavy commuter traffic. Once I realized it was a Volt I immediately decided to show him who's boss. I sneaked through the traffic (probably did a few illegal things) to get back at his side, took a good look at him and took...

I've been driving for a week now and I still don't see any history info in the Energy Info screen. What do you guys see in there? Did you have to do anything to activate it? I could go back to reading the user guide but I'm the kind of guy that assumes things should just work the way I expect...

The user guide says "press the button and charge will start immediately if you plug the car within 15min". So far, each time (4-5) I tried this in "real world" conditions the charge didn't start as expected and I had to go back into the car to press the button again for the charging to start. I...

I think that opening the access hatch to the charging ports should be MUCH easier since it's by far the most common "maintenance" thing you have to do with the LEAF. Placing it next to the engine compartment door release which we never should have to open (I am still looking for the oil dip...