Recent content by EricH

I lost my 4th bar in November (just under 5 months shy of the 5-year mark) and nearly 40k miles. Got to a dealer the last week of December for the battery check, but it took Nissan 5 weeks to get a battery pack to the dealership. Dropped it off Tuesday and picked up Wednesday. One of the...

Interesting info that SCE just posted (public) on its investor site. http://www.edison.com/content/dam/eix/documents/investors/events-presentations/eix-november-2014-distributed-generation.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The average solar NEM subsidy is shown on slide 4...

Any bets that Elon's patent-release is (at least in part) to throw Tesla's QC protocol into this fray? Why would a low-volume mfr like Porsche or BMW just use the Tesla plug and sign on ($$) to the growing Supercharger network? Nobody is going to buy an electric Panamera on the slim hope that...

The "beeps" sound like what happens when I get a ground fault error on the ChargePoint EVSE's where I work; the car chirps when I plug the L1 attachment to the car, but nothing happens when I plug the 120V plug into the unit. Make sure you have a good (15-20 amp) circuit or try another outlet?

Given the current publicity about texting-induced accidents, it's hardly surprising that Nissan would have blocked notifications of text messages (and/or Apple suppresses them when the device is connected to a car). Safety 101...

It must be nice to have a Blink DC unit next door to your house, so you can compare the costs so evenly. I use QC differently - to enable trips that would require an ICE but for the availability of QC. So for me, the question isn't "is that an unreasonable price per kwh comapred to home?", but...

See you all bright and early! Need to figure how my Android battery app stopped working.

I believe SCE changed policy in the past few months - site inspections are reserved for higher-capacity EV's like Teslas and perhaps BMW Active-E or Toyota RAV. They aren't checking on 3.3 or 6 kW chargers anymore.

:) good point... thanks!

I've heard wonderful things about the Android app you mention, and talked to garygid about it. Alas - I'm a dyed-in-the-snow-white-wool iPhone junkie (converted, in part, because Nissan didn't have a Blackberry version of the Leaf app in April 2011). Not giving up my iMac/iPad/iPhone...

My main problem in taking the Leaf down to VLBW is getting it home - I live atop a very steep hill, plus my wife has low tolerance for range issues, so Turtle isn't an option for me. And yes, watching the GOM for 2+ years has left me appropriately skeptical, but it seems to be more consistent...

Absolutely. To squeak out 75 miles, I drove 55 from Whittier to Newport Beach (mild downhill along San Gabriel River the first 16 miles), then drove 52 most of the way home, and still got back with 2nd lowest GOM ever (7 miles indicated). The only "silver lining" is that, as the effective...

Actually, utilities and others (probably solar-panel contractors) are waiting with open arms for batteries too "spent" for efficient vehicle use. Utilities need large-scale battery farms to balance intermittent generation sources (solar, wind), while a solar contractor could take a large solar...

First bar lost today. 20,490 miles, 26 months in-service. Ran 75 miles on fwy Saturday, down to LBW - must have been the last straw.

Um... The Frankenplug? I'm worried that I might need a QC someday but the nearby infrastructure winds up not fitting my car because a cynical mfr came up with a competing standard for their own compliance car to sow FUD among PEV buyers. That's one reason.