normcorriveau
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Thanks to the admins for adding this. I'm three days in to being a LEAF owner and I gotta say this whole site has been a godsend. I'm loving my LEAF!
Norm
Norm
Yeah, after 1250km I'm seeing about the same rate - cost a little under $15 so around 1.2cents/kmbrent said:At Ontario Hydro off peak costs I'm calculating between 1 and 1.1 cents per KM
Out of curiosity, did they charge you extra because the wire wasn't the same gauge as the US charger? Did you get the upgraded one and then send yours back? I've heard they were adding a fee to the Canadian returns since they would need to beef up the wire in these units in order to resell them.brent said:I got a complete new 16 amp EVSE from the EVSEUPGRADE guys in California.
Out of curiosity, did they charge you extra because the wire wasn't the same gauge as the US charger? Did you get the upgraded one and then send yours back? I've heard they were adding a fee to the Canadian returns since they would need to beef up the wire in these units in order to resell them.brent said:I got a complete new 16 amp EVSE from the EVSEUPGRADE guys in California.
I think I was the first Canadian customer who sent them a Canadian unit, at which point they learned of the smaller (16) gauge wire on Canadian units. They charged me a 50$ extra, and said it would cost them 200$ to change the wire, but since they and I didn't know about it, 50$ seemed 'fair'.myev said:Out of curiosity, did they charge you extra because the wire wasn't the same gauge as the US charger? Did you get the upgraded one and then send yours back? I've heard they were adding a fee to the Canadian returns since they would need to beef up the wire in these units in order to resell them.brent said:I got a complete new 16 amp EVSE from the EVSEUPGRADE guys in California.
kinggeorge13 said:The next stall was reserved only for "Modo" vehicles and had a Modo-Leaf there charging and had two solid blue and one flashing charging lights on it's dash so likely almost done. But it was written all over that the stall and the charger were for Modo only. The third stall had an error message on the charging station screen about a "Possible open breaker" or some such thing. So after waiting for more than 30 minutes and no one coming to move or disconnect the two vehicles sitting there hooked up, we saw the Leaf had reached full charge and the charging station switched off. So we did the only option left to us. We disconnected it and carefully closed their charging door on their hood, swiped our Visa card and used that station to charge our Leaf for half an hour and start the 60km trip home. Clearly some standards on how to deal with these situations are going to be warranted. I don't think we did anything wrong but I sure felt uncomfortable unplugging someone else's vehicle to plug mine in, even though both their dash lights and the charger itself said they were fully charged and no longer charging.
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