Recent content by iminsandiego

I just did some research and if I could pay MSRP, it would be $40k after taxes to get my exact car, but 3 years newer. Carmax will pay $30k for my vehicle right now. So, it was looking good that I could basically trade up for about $500 when accounting for federal and state incentives...

Sounds good. This is basically how I bought my last two Leafs but that’s when there was a lot of inventory with dealers trying to move older cars. It took me a couple months and a tons of emails and texts. I used my google voice number and a spammable email address. I had to drive 140 miles for...

That’s a fantastic deal! Were they really hurting for a used car? I traded my 2015 Leaf for a 2020 SV Plus back in April ‘21 just prior to the car crunch. I only have 7k miles on it but I’ve been wondering if I could swing any deal like you just got. My strategy has always been to buy late...

The state rebate in CA is $2000, but there was also a $1500 state discount (clean fuel reward) taken at point of sale that's already included in my price.

The April incentives were too great to pass up, so I bought a new 2020 SV+ w/ tech and sold my 2015 Leaf S to Carmax. The total price was $27,400 and taxes and license brought OTD price to $31,300. Federal and state incentives bring this down about $22k. This turned out to be a very...

Thanks for pointing out the new DCFC at the Walmart. That makes a big difference (cutting off 10 miles from the 7-eleven) if you are heading all the way to Big Bear. I'm not sure if I will make the trek from San Diego again now that I have lost 10% of capacity, but at least I know making it up...

I agree. The charge count is probably right. Even if you didn't charge it yourself 72 times, you have no idea how many times it was plugged in at the dealer before you bought it. You shouldn't worry about the charge counts. The SOH number doesn't tell you much because it is all over the...

Like a couple of others have mentioned, try a couple of long trips over a day or two and use QC to refill and keep going. When I'm only using my car for my normal 50 mile roundtrip commute, my SOH goes down over a couple weeks. On my last long trip up a mountain I used the QC three times on...

My highest Ahr is 63. I'm curious what your reported kWh remaining and Gids is when you charge to 100%. and

My car's SOH and capacity remaining at full charge has been creeping up the last couple weeks until I finally reached 100% SOH again. This occurred on a long trip up a mountain to a ski area called Big Bear. I trickle-charged overnight with my cord sitting in the snow and the next morning the...

I just wanted to add a note that I made the trek up to Big Bear on Thursday. I started out from San Diego, and with advice from abasile, I stopped at Temecula Nissan to make sure I could make it to San Bernardino. The QC there was on the chargepoint network, which I never used before, so I...

I just did a full charge last night (the first in several weeks). I checked with leaf spy to see what the GIDS was and at first it showed 278 with 21.5 kWh remaining, which I was quite happy with considering the SOH says 95%. Then I disconnected and reconnected a minute later and it showed 272...

That's unfortunate that yours was an entire year old. There should've been a good discount for that. It appears that you have similar behavior to mine. I'm actually doing about 60% of my charges L1 at work and the other 40% L3. I don't usually do more than 10 minutes on the QC, so the...

I wonder what your voltage reads at full charge. What does leafspy report as kWh remaining at full?

I'm in a similar boat with the OP. I purchased my leaf on 9/30/15 and didn't know to look at the manufacture date or use LeafSpy at the time of purchase. I thought I was getting such a great deal with the purchase price that I kind of rushed it. I didn't realize the 5k NMAC cash would be...