Recent content by Cheezmo

I returned my 2012 Cayenne Red Leaf today at the end of its 3 year lease. 13,300 miles (it ended up being a high school commuter for my kids). Lost one bar (Plano, TX). It had a great run. After an initial DC quick charge failure that took a few days of diagnosing and ended up being a bent...

I believe that if your charge level before you start is below 50%, it stops at 80-90%. If you start with your car already charged above 50%, it will go all the way. So, you can just start a second charge to top it off if you need to.

Not sure if this qualifies as early, but... Lost a bar after 8.8k miles, 19 months. Leaf lives in Plano, TX and was subjected to some early fast charging experiments (really just one day where I did 5 DC charges but didn't hit temperature limits on battery). Survived 2 very hot Dallas...

Good news for Texas EV purchasers! http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/11/06/some-texans-soon-can-claim-2500-rebates-on-cleaner-fuel-cars/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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My home is going to be on the DFW Solar Tour tomorrow, October 5, from 10-4. http://www.dfwsolartour.org/locations/martin/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; With a Leaf and 2 Volt's it isn't all about Solar be glad to talk about EV's too! I can hook you up with a charge...

Can't think of many places with Blink chargers in my area that I would want to stay for more than 3 hours (movie theater comes closest). I wonder if they really wouldn't sell you that plan for a Leaf without the quick charge capability.

By the way evGo has a $5/month plan for L2 charging only for cars that don't have DC capability. Not that many locations but if one happened to be where you could use it regularly, that seems like a good deal. When they were talking about it I thought it would be at least $10/month.

I'm not complaining, and I'm not using public stations (other than the evGo DC fast charging network). If your argument is correct that is another reason that a public 240V charging infrastructure like Blinks should fail. If it is only there for emergencies, then putting them all over the...

That is exactly what is happening. People aren't using it. I've had a Leaf for over year and paid way to much for an evGo membership in order to support the infrastructure, but DC fast charging has a been awesome and allowed me to go all over the metroplex all electric. No way I got my moneys...

The mindset isn't so much that charging should be free, it is that it should be less expensive than former means of transportation. If driving my Volt 40 miles costs 1 gallon of gas and driving my Volt 40 miles on electricity costs 13kWh of electricity (4 hours of charging), then charging needs...

Sneaky sliders snag purses at pump http://www.kxan.com//dpp/entertainment/must_see_video/sneaky-sliders-snag-purses-at-pump-nd13

I started looking at a system just to charge the Leaf, but then added 2 Volts. I ended up with a 6kW system for just under $10K as a prepaid 20 year lease. The economics of a smaller or even a larger system didn't make sense, we had to find the sweet spot with regard to cost/benefit. Since...

I have two Blinks, both had the "SD card failure" within one month of each other after about 6 months of service. They were sequential serial numbers so surely used the same batch of SD cards.

This ought to do it.