Recent content by bowthom

We went electric early on. Started when we purchased a Prius in 2003. Along the way I picked up a used 1995 Toyota Tercel and began researching and designing all electric drive train for it. The biggest expense was the battery pack and as I was saving up for that Nissan announced the Leaf for...

Hello, More info gathered today. Drove from Portland to Salem (48 miles) and back to the Blink DCFC at Willsonville. Leafspy was reporting ~ 50% SOC but when I plugged in to charge the Blink reported the battery was at 96% and therefore did not charge. Also the battery charge bars in the dash...

Hello fellow leaf brain trust. Yep I did it, took my 2011 leaf to EVRides LLC and had them replace the battery. Battery came out of a wrecked leaf with 500 miles on it. GOM shows 160 mile range but it drove 120 to LBW. 2011 GOM has always been “optimistic” to say the least. Leafspy does not...

Not in my experience, I have tried everything but the heater will not draw current while plugged into an L2 EVSE. It will work while charging via L3.

Hello, Have called customer service, posted on their FB page and basically this is how communications have gone. Don Thompson Hello, My 2011 upgraded TCU will stop working in 2 months and I'm wondering what is happening? It is essential that I can preheat the car while plugged into power in the...

I’m baffled and pissed off that Nissan has not provided a solution for early leaf connectivity going away. I’m still driving my 2011 Leaf and to keep it viable. It is essential that I can preheat the car to melt the ice & snow and maintain maximum battery charge. This time of year with heat /...

Hello, We are still running the original 12V battery. I recently did the same, topped it off with water, charged and load tested. Still holding up fine. I will test it again after we have our first cold spell when old lead acid batteries usually die.

Hello, After clearing the codes the "P31C2 00C0 EV/HEV TCU-273" re-appeared. I inspected the harness down under the RS dash behind the glove box but found nothing wrong. I deleted the codes again and after a week of driving a DTC has not been set. I guess that means I got lucky and it's good...

So my pictures disappeared, hm, they were there yesterday. Sorry folks, ON EDIT: pic is back

Hello Brain Trust of Leaf owners, My 2011 leaf coughed up a slew of DTC's yesterday. I think most of these are by products of a bad Apple charge cord shorting down the USB connector. So I aired up the tires and cleared the codes BUT the P31C2 popped back up today. I'm thinking harness or...

Funny, a business that been around for 125 years is badly mismanaged.

Hello, We are still sportin' the original 12V battery. Don

Hello, Well the day finally came. 6 years, 5 months, 21 days and 70111 miles. Lost the 3rd Batt Bar today (currently 9 bars). I'll add the Batt stats to this post tomorrow after it has fully charged. :?

Hello, Our 2011 has 10 batt bars showing and ~75 miles on the GOM at full charge. Now that the weather has warmed up I have knocked out a couple of 60 mile days with range to spare, AHr 48.83 SOH 74.44% Hx 52.72% 68k miles 23 QCs 6216 L2s 18 mV cell balance 57*F batt temp 210 GIDs

Hello, I concur with the previous poster. Since getting the car in March you are prolly seeing the batt capacity ticking up because of warmer temps. I've had mine for 7 years and have plotted the cycle. The efficiency and capacity both make a nice sine wave.