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When it comes to electric heaters (and even inverters for heaters) there is no such thing as an inefficient one. 100% of the juice that comes out of the battery becomes heat ... unless you're running lights of making sound. But then I'd love to know how much heat is lost under the hood. When I...

We got the software update about 2 weeks ago. The day after it was put in the car stopped charging (L2 EVupgrade) at 75% after 3 trips. The message about charging stopped at 80% never triggered. I pulled the plug, waited a bit and plugged it back in, repeated this, and it still would not go...

Hi NizzyLeaf I've had my Leaf since Dec 5/11 Got about 16500 K on it. I live just north of Bolton and work near Dixie and 401. see duffyslanemaple.ca or hhrobertsmachinery.com if you would like to chat. PS going from Bolton to work and back virtually every day I have yet to see another...

Last winter I plugged in and the charger kicked on just after midnight and finished at 80%. Every morning when I got up, I'd log on with the laptop and turn on climate control and the car would pre-heat every time Earlier this (HOT) summer, I would plug in the car when I got to work. By 10:30...

I'm in the machine tool business. We sell and service CNC machines. There is no question that we get more CNC / inverter failures the day after a thunderstorm. I treat my Leaf with the same advice I tell my CNC customers. Unplug the machine / car during the thunderstorms. Most move off in...

Here's my version Love the local dealer's name that I bought it from, in the town of Maple Ontario. Maple Nissan. My maple Leaf, and yes, we do make maple syrup here too.

Maybe I'm thick but I've tried a few times and I can't make it stop auto locking. The proceedure turns off the auto-unlocking so the car stays locked after you push the "off" ignition button.

This bugs me every day. I live in a rural community. I stop at the end of the driveway to pick up the morning paper on the way to work. I stop at the end of our driveway every day to pick the mail out of the mailbox. Why do I have to unlock the door to let myself out. Well because if I...

As I mentioned above .... too much Bill Gates If I'm in the driver's seat and I pull the door open latch, why wouldn't it unlock the door for me ?? It's not like a back seat with a kid the might get out while you're travelling. Pretty poorly thought out.

My guess is the the battery pack would take a pretty big whallup of juice to heat it up so it might need some priority setting. Charge first priority ... after 80% start the battery warmer or something like that ... and I said manually, I really mean timer / manual control. I think Bill...

The car already has a battery warmer. Why can't I turn it on manually, when plugged in, to warm it up and extend range. I think it would take several hours for the battery to cool and you can't run the car for much more than an hour to 90 minutes in cold weather. By then you'd be back to a...

mine does a very breif power up at the pre-set ( low TOU) time at either the 80% or 100% level, every day / every time it passed the set time.

You won't find many 30 amp plugs at your friends houses either. The best portable deal is the EVSE conversion to 220 V and the Quick 220. This will give you 12 amps of 220V charge. With the Quick 220 you plug the device into a standard 15 amp 120 V outlet and then use an extension cord to find...

I wouldn't have dreamed of another Nissan product if it were not for the Leaf. I even had a lot of second thoughts about it. We had an Infinity SUV that was a nightmare for service that totally p'd us off. Will never touch another Infinity. Got a Lexus and Toyota Highlander. Best 2...

Thanks for the tip. In medical terms, when they don't know what they're dealing with, I think they call it "idiopathic" So my idiopathic behaviour seemed to go away all by itself after a couple days. I can log on and start the climate control, and re-start charging pretty much at will now.