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Catching up to this thread. I work at NIH and own the red Leaf in the pics in the NIH article linked previously. Since these charging stations were installed in June, there has been a large increase in the number of EVs on the NIH campus. When the program started in June, there were about 5...

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Yes, I left the car on ("Ready") so that the DC-DC converter was on, holding the accessory battery at 13V, and supplying power to the inverter. My fridge draws about 2 kWh over one full day, but others have posted that the Leaf uses a few hundred watts in Ready mode to run the converter...

Thanks for everybody's well wishes. Fortunately we were not hit hard, just an overnight power outage. I hope that others still affected by the storm are able to get back to normal soon. Here is a pic of my setup: More images available at http://goo.gl/p5SY1 The setup is basically as...

I just successfully used this proposed setup to power my fridge during a power outage due to Hurricane Sandy. I purchased a Xantrex pure sine wave inverter, 1000W continuous, 2000W surge, along with a pair of #2 AWG 18" leads. I connected the negative terminal of the Xantrex inverter to an...

Bar #2 always seems to last a very long time, I call it the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" bar. Not sure how that top bar lasted so long. Perhaps because I had recently pulled the car off the wire?

Yes, very interesting comparison - thanks for lining up our numbers. Regarding my efficiency numbers - they are cumulative, not per bar. My efficiency was 5.8 for the total trip but 5.5 for the first 60 miles, implying about 6.1 efficiency for the last 60 miles. Also, the NAV displayed an...

Thanks! I was just trying to beat 100 miles, and get as far as I could afterwards. I was very surprised that I did not hit turtle until 118.1. At that point I thought it would be great if I could make it to 120 miles. :) I headed home, coasted downhill for about 0.5 miles, and then drove...

In this case I turtled at the top of a hill, so most of the distance from turtle to dead was coasting downhill to my driveway. But yeah, I don't plan to run to dead again.

Here's my 119.4 mile run from June 9, 2012: Details: 2012 Leaf, 7700 miles, seven months old. Car charged the night before to 100%, and left plugged in for another four hours after charging was complete. Conditions: Temperature 81F, crosswind (from west) at 8mph, climate control off, fan on...

I'll add my numbers from a range test on June 9, 2012: 27.1 kWh Dead to 100 from the wall (Kill-a-Watt meter, 120V, 19 hours, ~85F, 6 temp bars) 6/9/12 Details: 2012 Leaf, 7700 miles, seven months old. Car charged the night before to 100%, and left plugged in for another four hours after...

Where will the other 80 charging stations be located? This could help in determining the best place to locate the remaining 20 charging stations, although it sounds like willingness to sign a contract is more important than geography at this point. I agree that it would be ideal to locate...

Have the Okoles compromised the effectiveness of the heated seats in the 2012?

You would think so, but a while back the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a decision specifically for the Architect of the Capitol that it cannot use appropriated funds to install electric vehicle charging stations solely for use by employees for their personal vehicles; see...

My dealer simply charged $2000 less for tax. Criswell in Gaithersburg.