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AFAIK the programming is actually programming the CAR to accept the key, not the other way around. For example, they can remove the "programming" for a lost key by removing the appropriate crypto keys from the car's computer.

UL - does the device have a tendency to catch fire spontaneously and burn down your house FCC - does it cause your cell phone to glitch out (typically other devices)

Alright, leaf for a year opinion: I would purchase the car again, but only under very specific circumstances. If you have two cars in your family, it makes a great commuting car. With a 30 mile commute you will have a bit of flexibility if you want to visit your friend after work. Also look...

Boosting battery temp is simply a matter of charging to end just before departure. Also note that you generate heat during normal driving and a transient decrease down 10-20 degrees will take a long time to cool the pack down, especially if you have heat input from battery use (driving). People...

Following a good once-over of the wiring and depending upon the age of the panel and breakers, I'd replace the GFCI breaker. Sometimes old breakers get finicky. Plus if we were to (however ineptly) chalk the issue off to some random and inexplicable noise, there's also a chance that a random...

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I got my 2013 SV in southern MA for $12,700 last October with ~16k miles with QC and LED lights. It was at 12 bars at the time, but dropped to 11 shortly thereafter, holding steady at 82-85% since then (we'll see how the summer does for it). Had been leased in Georgia, so I surmise the heat had...

Yeah that smells like RSA/asymmetric cryptography which will be difficult to crack unless you're the NSA. Easiest way to do that would not be sniffing but instead disassembly of code on the programmer itself to find the key, which perhaps is easier than hardware extracting the code off the ECU...

There's no question that I could use an off the shelf three phase SVM inverter, which might be fun. But tbh Nissan has done a lot of good work (just botched a few really annoying things). I've recently debated reaching out to Nissan to see if I can chat with an engineer on the leaf. PS any...

Interesting. I've noticed, for instance, that if you hold the accelerator pedal static that the power applied and indicated increases quite drastically with speed. The one caveat with tweaking such parameters is that it's quite possible for the Space-Vector-Modulation Inverter to apply...

I am a thoroughly geeky computer and electrical engineer interested in doing some reverse engineering work on my 2013 SV Leaf. To that end, it's probably worthwhile to identify the overall modules at work within the system and which can be replaced. For the intents and purposes, we can group...

I've gotten something similar, possibly. When I back the vehicle up in cold temps and turn the steering wheel it sounds like a loud click or clunk. I'll try to make a recording.

An amusing (/horribly annoying) thought just occurred to me. I am under the impression that the clock in my leaf is set according to the cellular network time as I can find no way to adjust it. This means that upon the death of the AT&T 2G GSM network on 12/31/16, nobody operating a Leaf with...

The problem with % is that right now my 100% on my leaf means 80% on a new vehicle because of battery deterioration, so it doesn't at all equate to range. The guess-o-meter is kWh multiplied by some undisclosed and changing efficiency value generated by witchcraft. Just simply stating 18.9 kWh...

Interesting. I had assumed that the internal rectifier was the bottleneck of regen, though I find it surprising that the car can regen at 30 kW but only charge at 6.6 kW I've seen curtailing of the regen at cold temperatures and higher SoCs, and I'm not sure how the pack resistance and cell age...

I think the problem is that EV users scoff at paying $5/charge at a QC station that cost $14,000 to install. All the QCs in the Boston area look the same (I hadn't checked the brand) but they all appear to be 50 kW units. I've used both the Nissan ones and the NRG units. If anyone has the...

You can read my full articulation and reasoning here, but I would like to make the following recommendations to Nissan after driving the 2013 SV leaf for about 4 months: Provide settings that allow the user to tweak the B and D modes. Specifically, I would like to be able to adjust the D mode...