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This year we are celebrating our fifth annual National Drive Electric Week. To many, plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) are a foreign concept wrapped in myth and mystery. Although we’ve made tremendous progress since 2011, with over 310,000 electric vehicles sold, most people have never driven an...

Our friend Chris Paine made this fun video to tell everyone about National Drive Electric Week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uiIALNlv7c The fourth annual National Drive Electric Week* is September 15-21. The goal is to bring EV owners together at events across the country to share their...

In June, Cathy and I discovered that the "percent battery charged" value shown on the AeroVironment quick charge stations is not the car's state of charge (SOC). At first we thought this was a nerdy little detail that few would notice, but have since found out this is causing a lot of confusion...

On Saturday, June 16, 2012, a dozen electric vehicles made the inaugural drive along US Highway 2 over the 4,061-foot summit at Stevens Pass utilizing the newly-installed quick charge stations. Most of these vehicles recorded data for driving and charging. Cathy posted a blog describing the...

I'm signed up to give a paper at EVS26 on the current state and effectiveness of our nascent electric vehicle charging infrastructure. As part of that study, I would like to survey a bunch of charging sites. I'm hoping Leaf owners can help me survey sites across the country. To make the survey...

I think there are three things that Nissan could be doing better with the Leaf: providing clearer, more accurate range info, taking full advantage of regenerative braking from the accelerator pedal, and holding off on making constant artificial noise. More details on my blog here...