Recent content by Dougie

Has anyone tried printing out the complete service manual for their car from the nissan-technifo.com site? That seems to be the official source for the manuals, and I understand that you have to pay to get to them. My question is about whether the .pdf files are organized in a way so that they...

Sorry, newbie. When you say "connect directly to the battery," you mean you are connecting the inverter to the 12 volt battery, right? What is the operating scenario? Does the car charge the 12 volt battery from the traction battery if it sees the voltage go below 11 volts? Does the car have to...

Sure, if they were good and affordable. If you start using the past sins of a for-profit corporation as a metric for what to buy, you'll never buy anything again. (Which might be good.) My suspicion is that they will be good and expensive. A downside to the Tesla phenomenon is that it seems to...

What is the best height above the floor for the 50 amp outlet? I hope to use the wall bracket gadget to hold the EVSE under the outlet, but can't figure out from the pictures in the manual how long the cord is from plug to EVSE.

My local city-owned electric utility held a public information meeting to talk about their future strategy. We have a big problem in Colorado Springs because we held onto an obsolete coal fired plant for too long, entirely for political reasons, and now our rates are higher than Boulder. That is...

Speaking of hoods, is there an after-market hood that is not so heavy? My other cars are Miata (aluminum hood) and Insight (aluminum hood), and I thought I was going to get a hernia when I opened the Leaf hood in the dealer showroom. It's probably the easiest panel to make of aluminum; even the...

Is there a manual for the new Nissan EVSE? I don't see anything about GFCIs in the online owner's manual. My concern is not having a ground fault interrupter on a 240 volt circuit where the outlet is in a garage where the floor might be wet. My electrician is planning to put one it, and I...

Hmmm, I was thinking that for local use, the resistance heater would be ok. Does the heat pump system give a noticeable reduction in energy consumption in short trips?

Colorado. I have no problem walking out of dealerships!

Thanks for the info. I just didn't want to get 99% of the way through a purchase negotiation and have the incentive disappear on me! Now just have to convince the dealer that a 2019 car in January 2020 can't actually be sold at MSRP. Wish me luck.

How close is Nissan to the limit that will eliminate the federal tax incentive?

My intention would be to lease, because presumably the many new bigger battery car options on the horizon would make a 2015 car much less desirable by 2018. Question: When you get to the end of a lease, and are considering buying the car, is the purchase price re-negotiable at that point?