Recent content by Wavebender

Sounds perfectly plausible to me, thank you!

My wife was two blocks from home when her Leaf battery died and immobilized the car. She called road service and the flatbed arrived, but since the car could not be driven she wondered how the driver would get the car up the incline onto the ramp. He attached a small lithium-ion jump starter...

I would buy one, absolutely.

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It’s been a few days since we got the car back and all is well with wifey’s Leaf. Excellent service at Bronco Motors here in Nampa ID. Thank you all for your helpful suggestions! Drive on.

The dealership replaced the 12v and everything checks out fine now. They ordered some parts from a recall involving a mounting component or something for the main battery array, so we won’t get the car back until Friday. I will report on the final verdict. It does seem odd that a low voltage...

I didn’t think of that but you may be on the right track. We took it to the Nissan dealer today and they said the 12v was weak and could have caused all our problems. Will advise as soon as it is confirmed.

Wifey's 2016 Leaf threw an EV System Warning Light yesterday and would not run but the lights and everything else working fine. The battery was at 98%. We plugged it in over night and it would run but the battery was still at 98%, but this time it threw the yellow Brake System Warning light...

Well this is good news: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/recycled-lithium-ion-batteries-can-perform-better-than-new-ones/

I hear you. But fortune favors the bold, right?

Trust me, I have. I live in Idaho, one of the reddest states in the nation. My daughter is about to marry one. In fact, I just got home from giving him a lift home (he lives across the street) from the high school where he is doing his student teaching. We discussed my idea and he loved it. It...

Nampa ID, our town just outside of Boise, has a total of two Level II charging stations, both at car dealerships. Nampa is the second fastest growing city in the USA right now. I see EVs every day, including ours. This is the ideal place to start. Government “welfare” put men on the moon and...

In a dream last night I saw a solution to the problem of the lack of EV charging stations in rural and semi-rural areas: private charging stations. People could install roadside government-subsidized stations on their land and list their service on EVSE.gov as well as on Apple Maps, Google Maps...

Low power output would explain why wifey thought it might be working but then saw no increase in battery level. Thanks for the clarification!

Can wifey use the USB jack in her Leaf to charge her iPhone, or is it just for audio playback without supplying standard 5V USB power? The manual says nothing on the subject and her preliminary tests says it doesn’t work.