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Has anyone else had this experience? If I'm driving along without cruise control engaged at a constant speed of, say, 45 mph, I notice that the bars around the pine tree are all showing as being very efficient. Then, if I turn on the cruise control and set it at exactly 45 mph, I lose two or...

I noticed a couple of TV ads during the Olympics featuring the Nissan LEAF. I was pleasantly surprised that these were not aimed at environmentalists, but the public in general. What caused me to start this topic was that within 24 hours I had three occasions where strangers came up to me and...

I have been using the 120V trickle charging and had our LEAF set to start at off-peak at 7:00PM and to stop charging at 12:00PM (i.e. noon) the next day (if necessary). I took the car in a few weeks ago and got the latest software updates. It was fine until we started taking longer trips and...

I believe that longer range vehicles are just around the corner: http://energy.gov/articles/argonne-lab-s-breakthrough-cathode-technology-powers-electric-vehicles-today http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1073442_new-battery-promises-to-bring-300-mile-electric-cars-to-the-masses...

Maybe we'll see these wheels beefed up to support a LEAF. They save a significant amount of weight and claim to increase range by as much as 20%. Interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWo5Z8s8WM

Has anybody noticed that the windshields on the LEAF appear to be very fragile? We got a stone a 60 mph that just hit the edge of the windshield about a month ago. A crack 8" long ensued. About a week later we got another that apparently was smaller and that left a star shaped chip...

Had a fierce thunderstorm yesterday. We're about 180 miles from Phoenix as the crow flies and this storm even made it into Phoenix with some flooding. Anyway our LEAF was charging at the time. The power momentarily went out several times during the storm. This morning I went to run an errand...

I've now received three "Research Studies" because we have a LEAF. I just want to alert people that these all aren't Nissan seeking your opinion of the car. In one of them I researched the website of the company authoring the survey to find that they had just received some award from Ford. In...

This appeared in the Detroit News. Comments? "Neil Winton Battery-electric cars will struggle after normal buyers replace early adopters Some say electric cars will save the planet from man-made climate change. Others see a need to clean up the exhausts of an increasing number of cars...

Like many of you I have been following the LEAF for about a year and a half. Several of my ICE friends are believing all the anti-EV hype that has been reported by some journalists. I'd like to see how many creative suggestions we can generate to tell the truth about EVs and the LEAF in...

I may have missed some discussion, but I don't believe that I have seen anything about the tires and how their rolling resistance affects mileage per charge. Because we have owned several sports cars, I am planning on pressurizing the tires to the max shown on the sidewall which would not make...

I would like to see Nissan offer an optional propane heater. What I have in mind is a heater like one of those that you see as table top heaters that use a screw-on one quart disposable propane canister. It would reside outside of the passenger compartment and have a heat exchanger that would...

I would like to see Nissan offer driver and front passenger wind deflectors. These are usually molded plastic and fit to the top of the door window. They allow you to open the window an inch or so for ventilation without a lot of wind noise. This would help to minimize use of the A/C when...