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Purchased my leaf in April, 2012. E-filed using TurboTax this April. Got my refund based on $7,500 credit in about three weeks. Assuming you qualify, and completed the form correctly, you should get the credit. Based on reports filed on this forum, 2012 tax year filings are going much smoother...

As noted by others above, there are two types of phone books, the vehicle phone book and the handset phone book. When you download from your blue tooth connected phone, that download goes to the handset phone book only. There is no capability to download to the vehicle phone book - entries there...

I'm another of the many happy customers of Phil's evseupgrade. I also typically drive 15-25 miles a day. Could have done OK with L1 EVSE, but the L2 upgrade has been worthwhile on occasion. The installation is not rocket science, any qualfied electrician can do it. Get three quotes and go from...

I have a 2012 SL in upstate NY and I wouldn't be comfortable trying a 62 mile round trip in below freezing weather, even if I was willing to not use the heater at all. You need reliable ability to charge at work, or wait for an EV with greater range. You can read alot here about capacity loss...

I bought a 2012 SL which included the QC port. I would not have paid for it separately, since I seriously doubt there will be any QC stations in upstate NY during the life of the car.

I believe if you want to override the charge timer before or during that charging event, you need to use the override button in the car. that puts the car into immediate charge to 100%. Via the carwings app, you can start charging to 100% after the timer charging is finished at 80%. Try setting...

I use the EVSEupgrade permanently mounted in my garage. There really isn't anyplace I could plug-in in my travels, so I feel no need to drive around with the EVSE in the cargo area, just collecting dust. I figure I should get some value out of it. So I compared the $300 upgrade to the wall...

+1 Phil , +1 Tony Williams, Also Mike Walsh Suggested topics for the Group to Advise Nissan on: 1) making sure prospective buyers have reasonable expectations on range & battery life. If I had seen the Andy Palmer video before I purchased, I would have leased. Was already on the bubble...

Did survey. good luck. AS far as your request for additional comments: Yes I bought a Leaf and am extremely happy with it because: I love the quite ride, and good acceleration at low speeds. Driving past gas stations makes me so happy that I'm not giving my money to countries that want to do...

Zero stress here. I charge to 80%, top off to 100% if I'm driving more than 50 miles just to keep my margin of error. All those miles are totaly stress free in comfortable, smooth and quiet car. Had to drive my wife's ICE yesterday and it was a jarring experience that I'm not looking forward to...

Well I would think that would be great too, but I don't see either Nissan or the dealerships seeing this as a good investment. My dealer had sold two leafs in six months. They are going to take years before they recover the cost of the L2EVSE and the special service bay. At least multiple makes...

Right, NYLEAF, looks to me like the only true public access units are at the price chopper supermarkets. The rest are in private parking areas where you have to pay or have a permit to access the parking area, then pay again for the EVSE. You can forget about DC QC. SAE drove the stake into the...

The local paper had an article about our gas and electic utility trying to get state grants for public charging stations and CNG fueling stations. They said the tipical initial cost for the EVSE was $15,000 and for the CNG fueling station was $1 million. So the infrastructure cost for CNG is...

I hoped that the battery capacity loss would be 3% or less per year for five years. I would be disappointed if the capacity loss was greater than 5% per year.

This is my first car with XM, and no problems so far. Only time I've lost signal was in an underground parking garage. I'm in the northeast, and there are plenty of hills and trees here. XM reception is much better than FM.

Like most generalizations about the fuel sources for electricity, this needs a skeptical view. Fuel sources for the base load at off peak times vary widely by region. Coal is not the universal base load fuel. Where available, Nuclear and Hydro are also base load sources. A quick Google produced...

I've been using 4 Phillips ambientLED bulbs in my outdoor wall lamps, front door and garage, since December with no problems. CFLs don't work so good in the cold weather here, and the convential/halagon bulbs seem to break frequently.

Phil, thanks for posting this useful info. Let me just ask if I'm understanding it correctly. If I'm charging with your rev2 upgrade EVSE at 240V (90.9% efficiency) and car wings says that my last trip consumed 3.2kwh, does that make my wall to wheel consumption 3.52kwh? (3.2/.909 = 3.52) My...

I've given up on articles about "carbon footprint" of what ever. It seems to me that the author(s) use whatever numbers they choose to make the point they are inclined to support. Given the fact that our entire economy is fossil fuel based, you can follow the CO2 footprint back thru the various...

personally, I comparison shopped with a similarly equipped Prius, which I recall came in at about $26 - $27k. So the TCO evened out at about 5 years. But as others have mentioned, that calculation was way down on the priority list. Top of the list was wanting to stop sending my hard earned...