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SLO looks completely doable (Goleta and Santa Maria have charging stations).. I'm trying to get to San Jose from SLO (see my latest post). Let me know if anyone has done that journey. THANKS..

I need to move my car from Ventura area in SoCal up to San Jose. I'm not gonna ship. I want to drive it ! Does anyone have any suggestions on charge stop locations ? Here is the route I am thinking: 1) Camarillo to Goleta Nissan (charge) 58. miles 2) Goleta to Nissan Santa Maria (66...

I happen to be driving in a shuttle at LAX from my flight to a parking lot and I noticed that terminal 6 appeared to have a good number of electric vehicle chargers there on the ground floor. From a few web searches, it looked like these chargers were not of the L1/L2 variety that we can use -...

Thanks for all of your comments. I use the Leaf mostly for around-town and short commutes. It's basically an "office on wheels". With the quietness of it and slow rate of electrical usage when I am parked (using low ac and hands-free), make it really nice for me to do conference calls in the...

Not sure exactly now.. I'm just a beginner at this. Chargepoint just sent me a card so that should make it easier, at least, to unlock the machine.

Don't you mean the $100 Cheesesteak ? :-) Forgive me for that one, but I noticed your location says Philly and I used to live on 2601 Pennsylvania Ave many years go...

The charger has a little LCD display that tells you whether is is charging or not - and in this case the Volt wasn't charging (I looked) - but I was thinking after, maybe it WAS charging but stopped because it was full. then, I think the display reads something else "like Charge Complete" or...

I love joy riding...Isn't that partly why we have our cars ? Am I contributing to traffic ? PCH was empty all the way up and down and where I live is pretty devoid of traffic most of the time (except when farming equipment use the roads). I'm fortunate. Now if I can only get that reserved...

here is a suggested solution...

thought y'all might be interested in this... http://blogs.insideline.com/straightline/2011/01/tokyo-auto-salon-nissan-leaf-aero-style-concept-experiments-with-drag.html

I'm very impressed with the handling of this car under normal driving conditions (no, I have not tracked it yet). I have a '91 Carrera 2, a Honda and just got rid of a well worn 99 Saab 9-3 which I loved - so the car is not without peers in my stable. (albeit, my cars tend to be OLD). Is my...

I agree. In fact for some areas like Santa Barbara, a Leaf would fulfill even a larger percentage of driving needs. The question this discussion prompts then is: Will evolution of battery technology win the race against charge infrastructure expansion. ? The 200 mile battery might satisfy...

Now if someone could just make a charging "adapter" to plug a Tesla or Volt on one side (output) and a Leaf on the other (input)...Maybe that would help ?

I agree in general, but there is a pretty big sign above the charge station area in the Santa Monica Place lot that reads "ELECTRIC VEHICLES ONLY". I certainly wouldn't want to get into a conflict with the driver directly, but I don't think it is too out of place to call the enforcement number...

My daughter and I had the idea that we would make the 55 mile trip down PCH to Santa Monica on friday night in the leaf to have dinner, charge at Santa Monica Place parking lot and return home. What a fiasco. The chargePoint site showed 3/4 available before we left. We get down there, two...

THanks, Very helpful. incidentally, I went to a local charge station (on the gps map) in Ventura. There were two chargers (both listed available), but the parking spots were both occupied by SUIV's ! I didn't complain because I had enough to get home - The EV community is still in a young state.

Yes, I am sorry I bought because I am spending way too much time driving it :-) Today I looked for an excuse to drive it to the nearest L2 charger just to see if how a remote re-charge would work - as if I don't have anything better to do...

I'm interested in using this particular charging location, but how do I know if it is available ? What is the protocol if it is in use ? - or a car is sitting in the spot fulling charged ?

What battery capacity will the 2014 leaf come with ?- the magic number year for those majority of owners who started a lease on the 2011 model. If battery technology will enable us to reach 200 miles in a price/performance/weight package that could be implemented on a model in the price range...