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Selling my Heater OFF Switch for Gen 1 LEAF as seen here: Heater OFF switch on 1. gen. "plug &play" solution! Comes with a pre-drilled blank that fits into the seat-heater spot, so you may want to pick up a different blank if you have seat heaters. $5 + USPS Shipping

2011 Nissan LEAF SLe w/new battery installed August 2017 Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/9p1lwtN 75,600 miles, original owner, clean title, overall in good shape, garaged most of it's life. This was my commuter and around town vehicle since purchase in 2011 and is a fun, zippy, low maintenance...

I have a Gen 1 EVSE Upgrade in great condition. It has a L6-30R on it and has been upgraded by EVSE Upgrade to supply up to 20A/240V or 12A/120V and is adjustable in 1A increments down to 6A. It is in great shape and only lightly used. It includes a 5-15P adapter for 120V charging up to 12A...

I have a LeafDD for sale. Great condition - $70 shipped. Has the latest firmware on it. I always found this easier to use than LeafSpy as it's always in the car, fairly discreet and turns on instantly. This post has a great image of the information it displays courtesy FalconFour...

So the head unit / navigation / telematics unit on my '11 LEAF has started rebooting every time the car is powered on - as many as a dozen times when powered on and getting worse. Anyone else experience this and is it repairable? Looks like my options are: 1. Buy a used unit - $500-800 it...

I just got this in my email today from my local Nissan dealer (Mossy Escondido): Compared to TrueCar pricing, it appears that this will save you about another $5k off street pricing.

Anyone else get this via email? It seems that EVgo has an intermediate plan for Nissan LEAF owners where one can avoid the monthly subscription fee and pay $2.95 / QC session + $0.15 / minute. This is a LOT better than the $4.95 + $0.20 / minute a-la-carte plan and now in the right ballpark...

California adds new electric-vehicle perk Not sure which type of credit I prefer, I can see downsides to both. Perhaps just make it work like the current state rebate and base it on battery size, though realistically people who replace dirty vehicle miles with clean vehicle miles should get the...

Seems to be a good number of Enphase users here - just saw this product announcement which is intriguing: The Enphase Energy Management System The key appears to be the Enphase AC Battery - a 1.2 kWh block of batteries with a bidirectional inverter inside that also plugs into an Engage cable...

After a bit more than 32k miles, it was finally time to retire the Ecopias. Contrary to some rather vocal opinions of the tire, I never found them all that objectionable - smooth ride, quiet and efficient. Yeah, the shoulders wear fast at stock pressures (and it looks worse than it really is...

Recurrent Energy set to build largest Texas solar plant

Came across this informative article on charging infrastructure cost - future articles on the topic should also be informative: RMI: Pulling Back the Veil on EV Charging Station Costs Summary: Public charging infrastructure is expensive! Not much that we didn't already know, but it does break...

Cottonwood over on TMC applied the Erlang-B model to Tesla SuperChargers which I found very interesting. Make sure you read his subsequent post as well where he estimates which stations need to have more SuperChargers added. If you're not familiar with the Erlang-B model, it is used in the...

I usually check the California ISO Today's Outlook page to see how we are progressing on our way to getting to 33% renewables by 2020. Happily surprised today to see that we've hit 3.8 GW today in combined solar PV and solar thermal production - about 15% of demand. Something else interesting...

Found this image on this eVgo YouTube video showing where NRG is planning on installing the 200 QC stations for California. Anyone else see some major issues with it?

Bill will unplug Georgia's $5K electric vehicle tax credit Given that it's the most generous credit currently available in the USA - Colorado is the only other state which has a credit valued at a similar amount - and that Atlanta is currently one of the hottest markets for the LEAF, this could...

Ran across this great presentation from Professor Jeff Dahn (Dalhousie University) talking about various issues in engineering batteries for EVs (and other applications) that last a long time. Professor Dahn has been working with GM for a year or two now helping them in their battery testing...

http://news.pv-insider.com/concentrated-pv/cogenra-set-meet-sunshot-5-cents-kilowatt-hour" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; 5c/kWh is competitive even in the wholesale market. I do wonder if that includes the value of the waste heat that can be reclaimed from the CPV or not? Using...

Introducing SolarCity DemandLogic™ - Demand management and backup power made easy SolarCity Introduces Energy Storage for Businesses This is pretty cool. I can easily see this being used in conjunction with quick charger installs (Tesla already does this - they have 600 kWh of battery storage...

I found this tidbit while reading on TMC: Impedance normally directly correlates with capacity. Anecdotal evidence with LEAF Spy typically shows a small bump in Ah and Health readings after a "100%" charge and I discharge to below to LBW, but this typically goes away within a couple days...