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    Electrify America chargers are 💩

    Right now the only EV I would take on road trip is a Tesla, preferably one with a CCS adapter. When other brands can charge at all Tesla chargers and all CCS chargers, I would consider one. That is probably two or three years from now. Thanks to gross mismanagement at Hertz, used Tesla M3's are...
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    New member - one bad purchase, one good purchase

    We have owned three first generation Leafs, a 2011 SL (returned at the end of a lease) , a 2013 S and a 2014 S and driven the 2013 and 2014 a total of about 160,000 miles with minimal battery degradation. The 2013 does not have CHADEMO capability, so it has always been charged on either 120 or...
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    We just sold our last Leaf

    We just sold our 2014 Leaf S. We had it since it was new. It was one of four we leased or owned. The others were a 2011 SL, a 2013 S and a 2020 SV+. We return the 2011 at the end of the lease. Our son now owns the 2013, which has about 80,000 miles and is going strong. We sold the 2020 to...
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    First time road trip in my Leaf SV Plus

    Our 1200 mile trip in the SV+ was from Portland down US 101 to Santa Cruz and back via I-5 in September, 2022. There were sufficient CHADEMO chargers, but the charging experience was frequently frustrating. For example, in Klamath, California, there was no cellular service to start a Chargepoint...
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    First time road trip in my Leaf SV Plus

    Our last Leaf is sitting by our house awaiting a settlement for the damage caused by being backed into by a full size Chevy Crew Cab pickup in a parking lot. It is a 2014 S which we have driven since it was new. It has over 90,000 trouble free miles, but will probably be totalled. The Leaf was...
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    Prices of Used EVs Drop Below Used Gas Cars for the First Time

    A couple of weeks ago, we bought our second Tesla Model 3. It replaced our crashed 90,000 mile 2014 Leaf S, which we leased new and bought at a bargain price from Nissan at the end of the lease. It is a 2019 SR+ with 26,000 miles. We bought it from a friend who babied it. We paid $16,000 after...
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    My first road trip

    We haven't had the SR+ long enough to measure efficiency. Range is more important to me than efficiency. While efficiency was important in the 24 KW 2014 Leaf, our 2019 Tesla SR+ should get to any regional destination on a single charge. Our 2018 Tesla is a long range RWD model with a nominal...
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    My first road trip

    Last week we bought our second Tesla model 3. My wife was in the Costco parking lot when a full size Chevy crew cab pickup backed into her. Our poor 2014 Leaf S was totaled. No injuries , fortunately. Thanks to Hertz, used Tesla Model 3's are cheap. While I would never buy one from Hertz, we...
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    Leaving the Leaf community

    We have been driving Leafs since 2011. 3 years with a leased SL that came with a Blink EVSE. Leased a new 2014 at $99/month for 3 years, then bought it. Bought a 2013 lease return in 2015. Leased a new 2020 SV+ in 2021. The 2013 is still going strong, our son and his fiance have it. We bought...
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    Tesla to J1772 Adaptor

    I have a Lectron Tesla to J1772 adapter. It worked fine with a destination charger to charge our 2020 SV+ at a motel in California. We currently have a 2014 Leaf S and a 2018 Tesla Model 3. They are parked outside and we have an old GE Wattstation J1772 EVSE and a Generation 3 Tesla wall...
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    A thread for people happy with their Leaf

    The Vortex is designed to charge a CCS compatible Tesla from a CCS charger. Older Teslas need a hardware and software retrofit to be CCS compatible. The hardware software retrofit includes a Tesla adapter similar to the Vortex which is $350 for a model 3 and $450 for the Model S or X. The...
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    A thread for people happy with their Leaf

    If your friends have had trouble with charging Teslas, they are poor planners and haven't used the Tesla navigation properly. Geography may play a part. All of our driving in the almost two years we've had a Tesla has been in the West, with the farthest East being Denver. Our longest stretch was...
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    A thread for people happy with their Leaf

    We have been driving Leafs since 2011 when we leased a new SL which came with an installed level 2 EVSE, courtesy of a federal program. In 2014, the car had about 30,000 miles and had lost 2 bars, although it had never been charged eith a level 3 charger. At that point, Nissan was almost giving...
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    Tesla Destination EVSE and J1772 adapter

    I have used a Lectron adapter with a 2020 SV+ and a 2014 S with a Tesla destination charger and a Tesla wall charger without any problem.
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    Is the CCS to CHADEMO adapter legitimate?

    I have never seen an EA location with more than one Chademo connector. I gave up on Nissan after our first long road trip in our 2020 SV+ in the fall of 2022. We sold the SV+ to friends as a second car to their Tesla and bought a used 2018 Tesla. Our second car is a 2014 Leaf which we have had...
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    Considering a 2018 or a 2019 Leaf, but I'm concerned about my 96 mile round trip up and down a mountain.

    I'd be comfortable with a Plus for the commute, not a base model. We drove our 2020 SV+ from Portland to my sister's house in Redmond several times which is 143 miles. The trip is over Mt. Hood from our house, which is about about 20 feet elevation to 3,891 feet on the mountain then down to...
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    Considering a 2015 Leaf S

    We currently have two Leafs in the family, a 2014 S we have had since it was new and a 2013 S we bought in 2015 as an 8,000 mile lease return. The 2014 has almost 90,000 miles and still shows 12 bars. It has been L3 charged once for about 10 minutes since we owned it. It is normally charged to...
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    My first road trip

    We have been driving Leafs since 2011. At the beginning of 2021, we had 4 cars, a 2014 Leaf S which we had since it was new, a 2013 Leaf S we bought in 2015 as a lease return with 8,000 miles, a 1999 Subaru and a 1998 Volvo. The Subaru was our trip car for many years. We had just acquired the...
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    Why Have 2022 Used LEAFs Dropped by $10k in Price in the Past One Year?

    A year ago last fall, I sold my 2020 SV+ for $28,000. At the time, it was a seller's market. It's a buyer's market now. The price for used Teslas has dropped significantly in that time for the same reason.
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