Leptons
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I posted here way back on October 30th... at the time I had initiated the lease transfer process with Nissan. It did indeed turn out to be as slow as NMAC had promised. Despite a really nice and helpful lessee at the other end, we weren't able to officially say "we're done" until 15 Nov. The shipper picked up the car in Santa Monica the afternoon of the 18th, and we unloaded as the sun set on the 22nd here in Rockford, IL. Just to remind: 4500 miles, 2012, 12 bars, pretty much new, 27 months left.
It's been a chilly introduction to the Midwest, with temps ranging from 9 to mid 20's (deg F). As you can see from the pic taken when I left the gym this morning...
... "snow showers" have made things a bit more challenging. (I'm still awaiting IL plates -- lease transfer in this state is excruciatingly hard. Also I wanted to get a pic of the CA Clean Air Sticker on a snow-sprinkled Leaf!)
Finally, the electrician still hasn't come out to the house yet to make the final connections to my Clipper Creek L2 EVSE (I've run cables and installed everything but he's doing the hookup to make it "official" to code), so I'm running off of the issued L1. In case anyone is wondering about cold weather performance:
(1) I've put in just over 100mi in the past three days doing errands, taking the dog on a run, etc., and I've averaged 3.4 mi/kw-hr in teens-to-twenties temps with reasonable use of heat.
(2) Since the garage is hovering at or just below freezing at night, I am not concerned about charging to 100%; battery temp never reaches mid-range. Today was a pretty busy day, with 42 miles driving in 20-25deg F, keeping the cabin above 60, running seat heaters, and about 10 miles or so at ~50-55 mph. At the conclusion of all that I was at a projected 21 miles and 4 bars. I think that's really good, considering conditions.
(3) The Ecopias rate a B- for snow. Not great, but if you're reasonably experienced they're OK. The snow was not deep at an inch or so, but very powdery on a cold road: slippery! BTW: if your Leaf comes to Bear/Packer country on a truck from CA, where the tires were last checked on an 80 degF Santa Monica afternoon, get to a compressor ASAP.
In all everything is OK so far!
I posted here way back on October 30th... at the time I had initiated the lease transfer process with Nissan. It did indeed turn out to be as slow as NMAC had promised. Despite a really nice and helpful lessee at the other end, we weren't able to officially say "we're done" until 15 Nov. The shipper picked up the car in Santa Monica the afternoon of the 18th, and we unloaded as the sun set on the 22nd here in Rockford, IL. Just to remind: 4500 miles, 2012, 12 bars, pretty much new, 27 months left.
It's been a chilly introduction to the Midwest, with temps ranging from 9 to mid 20's (deg F). As you can see from the pic taken when I left the gym this morning...
... "snow showers" have made things a bit more challenging. (I'm still awaiting IL plates -- lease transfer in this state is excruciatingly hard. Also I wanted to get a pic of the CA Clean Air Sticker on a snow-sprinkled Leaf!)
Finally, the electrician still hasn't come out to the house yet to make the final connections to my Clipper Creek L2 EVSE (I've run cables and installed everything but he's doing the hookup to make it "official" to code), so I'm running off of the issued L1. In case anyone is wondering about cold weather performance:
(1) I've put in just over 100mi in the past three days doing errands, taking the dog on a run, etc., and I've averaged 3.4 mi/kw-hr in teens-to-twenties temps with reasonable use of heat.
(2) Since the garage is hovering at or just below freezing at night, I am not concerned about charging to 100%; battery temp never reaches mid-range. Today was a pretty busy day, with 42 miles driving in 20-25deg F, keeping the cabin above 60, running seat heaters, and about 10 miles or so at ~50-55 mph. At the conclusion of all that I was at a projected 21 miles and 4 bars. I think that's really good, considering conditions.
(3) The Ecopias rate a B- for snow. Not great, but if you're reasonably experienced they're OK. The snow was not deep at an inch or so, but very powdery on a cold road: slippery! BTW: if your Leaf comes to Bear/Packer country on a truck from CA, where the tires were last checked on an 80 degF Santa Monica afternoon, get to a compressor ASAP.
In all everything is OK so far!