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I recently noticed something surprising about the Nissan Model #296900 portable 240/120VAC EVSE that came with my 2018SV LEAF: its snap-on L1 adapter for tapping into a regular 120VAC household plug isn't fully mechanically keyed. It will attach in either of two ways; there is no control...

Just a quick curious question as to whether other LEAF owners experience unwanted unlatching/opening of the charge port flap. A friend who bought her 2018SL at almost the same time as I bought my current 2018SV claimed this happened a few times to her, and it's happened several times to me as...

Background: The LEAF's two charging timers, for me, are a good fit with the two main ways I use the car on any given day: either for short local errands, or for long-distance trips (probably involving QCs en route). I've got my LEAF's Timer #1 set up to charge for just one hour at the...

I've been through the screens half a dozen times, and can't find any way to disable the "start time" field. Its setting interface won't accept anything but a valid time of day, and nothing gets it to the "***" that I remember (hopefully not delusionally) as being part of the 2011..2016 leaf...

I've recently traded up to a 2018 LEAF SV, and, while trying to preload the addresses for some favored DCQC stations, discovered that the "enter street address" function seemingly couldn't be used for one of them. I made the mistake of trying to fill out the data entry fields from top down...

Got the "parts are available; come in for warranty service" notice in yesterday's mail. I scheduled a service visit tomorrow from the dealer's web site that had the recall item as a clickable selection on the "so why will you be bringing your car in?" screen, but haven't interacted yet with...

This morning was the start of the PITA Daylight Savings Time season, so I went into the "Settings->Clock" menus to deal with it. Very conveniently, there was a Daylight Savings TimeON/OFF control. One click, and "mission accomplished". Um, sort of. Except that the more prominently visible...

On several occasions now, the nav/display system in my 2016 LEAF has given a spoken audio alert, coupled with a popup notifier (that apparently must be dismissed by touching its "OK" box) on the LCD display, urgently notifying me of a "weather alert". That could be of interest, but the...

I know that reporting that the LEAF's "distance to empty" reading can be inaccurate isn't going to get me that Pulitzer, but what's up with the "fuel bars"? On the return trip from a brief weekend appearance at work, I noticed that the bars intended to display the battery charge had dropped...

It's kind of interesting that it took two years of LEAF driving to notice this, but I took my 2012 LEAF up into some nearby hills that were logged a decade or so ago to go berry-picking yesterday, and was surprised that the car only allowed one bubble's worth of regen on the way back down...

The recent demise of my garage's Blink EVSE has thrown me back to using my (now upgraded) Panasonic EVSE on 120V for charging my LEAF, and I'm having some rather perplexing results with it; so perplexing that I must be missing something obvious. I should also mention that the incident in...

For the last 15 months or so of my participation in the EV project, the Blink EVSE unit issued to me has regularly (like at least once a week) generated a nuisance trip of some safety feature, refusing to let my LEAF charge on its 04:50 end-timer because "A Power Fault Has Occurred". And on...

If I set up a multi-QC highway trip with the anticipated intermediate charging stations as waypoints, I would like to see a display of the distance remaining 'till the next waypoint (it would be a help to know how far I have to stretch the current state of charge). Instead, only the...

... should show time *remaining*, not time played-thus-far. Also, the "random folder" selection should select songs randomly

Hi! I may soon be part of a three-LEAF "hand-me-down" chain initiated by a friend who's replacing her nearly-new MY2012 LEAF with a '2013 (seems rash to me, but she feels she needs the leather seats for improved resistance to dogs). If the complicated transactions go through, I'll very likely...

This was the scene at the Tigard Fred Meyer DCFC this morning as I stopped in to try and compensate for another of my home Blink unit's failures to charge. Bad enough that the DCFC (if/when it works) is ICEd; now there's danger of it being hogged, too

One thing I have to concede about the Blink DC fast charge stations is that they've got an integrated home theatre system far superior to any other EV charging equipment I've ever seen. It must have about a five-foot diagonal, full-color screen with about six thousand lumens of punch behind...

Apologies if I'm posting to the wrong forum.. There's been quite a bit of discussion about new retrofit batteries, seemingly with the underlying assumption that as long as the battery module is mechanically easy to swap, current LEAF owners stand a good chance of upgraded battery transplants...

Do the Blink units (either DCQC ones or the L2 ones) have any provisions for detecting that their charging cables have been severed by vandals/thieves? And is it too much to hope for that there was enough money in the Blink DCQC stations' budgets (after the big flatscreen video display) to...

I normally tend to stick to established standards and practices where possible, but Volvo, in concert with Eriksson, seems to have come up with a new EV charging proposal that pretty much addresses all the deficiencies I perceive in the LEAF's charging features. It would be great if Nissan...