Recent content by BetaMark

Your'e right; guess I jumped the gun on this. I thought there was a news item saying this would be in the 2012 models, but it looks like it will be 2013 at the earliest. Oh, well... my bad. :oops:

It's Nissan's own FAQ that suggests renters could use QC stations. I see your point. It'll be tough going until there's a way of fully charging an EV in just minutes... hence the OP. Delayed gratification sucks. :cry:

Yep, that's the document I was thinking of. Guess I didn't properly understand the verbiage of it... thanks for the clarification.

Does that mean that the current L2 EVSE will also need to be upgraded to take advantage of the 6.6KW charger?

It's my understanding that a bill was just passed in California which says, in essence, that renters have a right to request and be provided with EV charging facilities. You'll still have to wrangle with the manager/property owners over who pays for what, L2 versus L1, and deal with the red tape...

With the 6.6KW charger, will the L1 charging time be cut in half as well as L2 charging?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20122797-54/doubling-ev-range-with-solid-state-batteries/?tag=txt;title" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Imagine combining this with Nissan's 10-minute charger... Wowsers!

Isn't this another chicken-and-egg thing? If w're thinking about doing this at all, shouldn't we start hashing the mechanical standards out now, before there are EV's with dozens of chassis designs and using battery packs with different form factors on the road? Also wanted to point out that...

All good points, although with my modest commute (20 mile round trip to work on surface streets) I'd probably only have to drag the thing out once or twice a week. That being said, I would certainly prefer a more straightforward charging method, and to that end, I'm approaching the issue on a...

Not a bad idea. But since my assigned parking space doesn't have an AC outlet, Randmac's solution might be more practical.

Wow... this could be just what I'm looking for. All I'd have to do is talk the landlord into letting me mooch off an existing AC outlet here and there, then wheel the thing out to my car and charge. No muss, no fuss. Thanks for the heads-up! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Actually, I live in an apartment, which I know is a huge strike against me. But in poking around the building, I found that the washers/dryers in the laundry rooms are plugged into 110v outlets, which led me to believe there's no 220 coming in. I have no idea where the main panel/breakers are...

Did a search and didn't find a specific answer to this. Does this leave you completely SOL? Or can your local utility get a 220 tap off the utility pole, and if so, how many gazillions of $$ would this cost?

IIRC the EV Project started in October 2009 and is supposed to last about 3 years. So they've got roughly another 1 1/2 years to make good. There's also this...

Agreed. To paraphrase a line from Jerry Maguire, "Show me the infrastructure!" :mrgreen: