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Today, our Leaf would not start charging when plugged into our home Level 2 EVSE; the indicator light on the EVSE did not illuminate, you didn't hear the relay click, and the car didn't lock in the J1772 connector. Tried it with the portable charging cord to confirm it was the car and not the...

At our vacation house, I installed a ductless minisplit heal-pump (to partially replace existing electric-resistance heat). Thinking I might want to add 1 or 2 additional minisplits in the future, I put in a 40 amp subpanel (fed with 8/3 NM-B and protected by a 40 amp breaker in the main...

Recently my wife was driving to the NC mountains, and our Leaf had a serious issue. She's a little vague about what happened, but seems to recall it was something about "extreme heat" and a need to "reduce speed". The car refused to go more than 50mph. The stretch of road in question is...

My 2018 Leaf has the dual-voltage EVSE cord, which can plug into a 120v outlet, or a 240v outlet (with 14-50P plug). Is it reasonable/legal/safe to plug the EVSE (in 240v configuration) into a 30amp dryer outlet ? The dryer outlet has a 14-30R receptacle and is protected by a two-pole 30amp...

I am wondering if it's feasible and safe to charge a Leaf (via the charging cord plugged into a 120vac outlet) while the car is in "ready" mode. The reason I ask: I have rigged my car so that I can connect an 120vac inverter to the Leaf's 12vdc system, and use that inverter to drive some...

I have rigged my Leaf up to be able to use a 1kw 12vdc->120vac inverter as a source of backup power for grid outages, as described in: https://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=13097 . In order for the DC-to-DC converter to be able to supply the 100+ amps of 12vdc current that the...

Kind of a basic question from a new owner (2018 SV model): Yesterday I left home with the dashboard showing that I had 137 miles of range; when I got home it showed 50 miles, for a reduction of 87 miles. I google-mapped my wanderings, and it came to a total of 65 miles; that's a pretty big...

For those not aware, these are little one-way valves that you install in place of your brake bleeder valves. I've used them on other cars for years and they are awesome, allowing one-man bleeding of your brakes. This is particularly helpful for our Leafs, as they are supposed to have the brake...

Weird rattling sound coming from front-right wheel of our new (slightly-used) Leaf. I jack it up to pull the wheel off to see if I see anything weird, and apparently there is a lock on one of the lug nuts. It's round and prevents the socket from getting onto the hex flats, and it has a...

I installed a Clipper Creek HCS-50 for home Level 2 charging and it seems to work fine most of the time for my 2018 Leaf SV. But occasionally, when I think I've got it set up to charge during the night (when our electric company gives us a super-offpeak rate of less than $0.03/kwh) I'll go and...

Wife was searching for charging stations and came across this: https://durhamnc.gov/264/Electric-Vehicles-Charging-Stations Most of the charging stations listed have the note "Not compatible with 2018 or 2019 Leafs". I navigated to several of the listed stations (using Plugshare with zipcode...

I hope it isn't too obnoxious to start a new thread, but there are so many old ones and so much conflicting and confusing info that I am lost ... I would like to try LeafSpy and I'm not sure what OBD2 device to purchase; I will be using an Android device (and perhaps my Mac laptop). One basic...

I've looked at the manual honest ... Our new 2018 Leaf SV has the quick charge port; great ! But we just went to a Charge Point station and the equipment there plugs into the smaller J1772 port on the car, not the big quick-charge port. Will it still charge at the quick-charge rate (1hr or...

I'm curious how easy it would be, and if anyone here has managed, to use their Leaf as backup power for their house during power outages. Mine has a 40kwh battery. That's enough to run the fridge and cable modem for a couple of days, and the well pump enough for drinking water and a little...

Thinking of buying a nearly-new SV (2018 w/ 5k miles) and having never had an electric vehicle, we're looking down the road a little (so to speak). I understand the batteries will require replacement in 10 years or so. What assurance is there that replacement batteries would be available ...