I just filled in my survey.
Very odd though - they didn't have a selection for:
"Do you have an existing Level 2, fully permitted Electric Vehicle Charger that can be upgraded with the EVProjects EVSE, re-using your existing 240V 40A circuit?"
Go figure. How could they possibly have made such a grave omission?
:shock:
I did talk to an EVProject manager from another area. He said most calls he was explaining EV 101 to them, about how EVs work, charge etc. Said I was in the 0.005%. Course every LEAF owner will be pretty unique with 20,000 LEAFs initially out of some 250 million vehicles in the US - that's 0.008% . ( http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s1060.pdf ) Better get to rolling the LEAF in all 50 states and mass adoption!
I also heard they are making progress in hiring an EV Project Regional coordinator for the SF Bay Area. Maybe we'll have someone coordinating our area in a week or two! (Quick in business terms for a new process, an eternity for us waiting for our LEAFs, the joy of quiet Electric Drift and leaving behind the
GAS Anxiety we have until then! Well I get to do the RAV4 EV most of the time, but every now and then I have to drive or put GAS in our Prius or I'm riding in someone else's GASMobile.)
About the EVProject and delivered LEAFs, I saw this in the participation agreement where they mention purchased LEAFs - so it allows for the possibility, if they actually allow it remains to be seen:
4 Participant’s Representations and Warranties
Participant represents and warrants to ETEC that Participant:
a) Has accurately completed the ETEC Participant Questionnaire;
b) Has purchased or leased, or will purchase or lease, a Nissan LEAF™;
c) Will use Participant’s Nissan LEAF™ in a manner consistent with Participant’s Questionnaire responses;
d) Will allow ETEC to collect, use and distribute the Data to DOE and EV Project participants;
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