skateguy50
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Even if your not from Massachusetts you might be able to help me with my issue.
In theory the ChargeSmartMA app is supposed to track when I charge during offpeak hours at my home and rebate me $0.05 per kwhr I charge. To setup I connected to my National Grid account and allowed the app access to my nissan connect services account.
It is supposed to be able to see when I am charging at home and how much from that but in the 2 weeks since I setup it has only recognized 3 charging cycles, 2 not at home and one at home. In that time I have only charged during non peak hours and driven maybe 500 miles.
So I never did any settings on the car side so after it wasn't getting any information I went through some menus at home and connected the car to wifi and tried to find any setting that would help track what's needed but the app didn't ask for anything other than access to the leaf account. On the my leaf account it seems to track the driving and average miles / kwhr but no list of charge start and end times and start and end capacity.
So I guess the system seems cool but if I can't get it working I'm not sure how to get the discount... they also connect with wifi smart chargers and maybe that would work better, but maybe not.
I honestly have never charged outside the discount times of the program and mostly charge at home, to date this year the app shows I have driven 9,150 miles and used 2653 kWh of energy so should be able to get $132 in credit... so if a "smart" charger costs $600 It would take me driving another 40,000ish miles just to break even... so maybe before then I can get the current system to work.
I send several emails and pictures of my car before and after charging and the app not recognizing they charging cycles but so far no responses...
Hoping someone here has also signed up and is using the plug that came with the car to charge from home.
In theory the ChargeSmartMA app is supposed to track when I charge during offpeak hours at my home and rebate me $0.05 per kwhr I charge. To setup I connected to my National Grid account and allowed the app access to my nissan connect services account.
It is supposed to be able to see when I am charging at home and how much from that but in the 2 weeks since I setup it has only recognized 3 charging cycles, 2 not at home and one at home. In that time I have only charged during non peak hours and driven maybe 500 miles.
So I never did any settings on the car side so after it wasn't getting any information I went through some menus at home and connected the car to wifi and tried to find any setting that would help track what's needed but the app didn't ask for anything other than access to the leaf account. On the my leaf account it seems to track the driving and average miles / kwhr but no list of charge start and end times and start and end capacity.
So I guess the system seems cool but if I can't get it working I'm not sure how to get the discount... they also connect with wifi smart chargers and maybe that would work better, but maybe not.
I honestly have never charged outside the discount times of the program and mostly charge at home, to date this year the app shows I have driven 9,150 miles and used 2653 kWh of energy so should be able to get $132 in credit... so if a "smart" charger costs $600 It would take me driving another 40,000ish miles just to break even... so maybe before then I can get the current system to work.
I send several emails and pictures of my car before and after charging and the app not recognizing they charging cycles but so far no responses...
Hoping someone here has also signed up and is using the plug that came with the car to charge from home.