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Residential rates are higher than any other rates. The chargers should be on commercial rates, and the cost of installing the infrastructure should be amortized over a time period that allows electricity to at least approach the cost of gasoline. It costs way more to install a petrol station and...

That's like saying a Honda Fit isn't ready for prime time with regards to pulling an RV trailer. Pick the wrong tool for a job, and you will be disappointed by the results. EVs are meant for frequent relatively close trips, and they are exceedingly good at that. No amount of charging...

That just isn't true, and it depends on what you mean by environment. I can tell you the environment of LA has improved since the 80s. That place was smog city despite having a fraction of the people living there today. There are orders of magnitude more trees in forests in the USA than a...

My kids will learn how to drive a manual. I'm keeping the Acura TSX 6-speed for the long haul.

Neither. I take the spare out of my vehicles and carry a $5 plug kit and $15 tire inflator. I've never had damage to a tire that couldn't be fixed by a plug, and if I did, then I have a cell phone and friends. It takes about 2 minutes to install a plug, but the slow part would be waiting for...

I've already done it with a Leaf EVSE and use it daily on my Prius plug-in. Soldering a connection is not asking for trouble. Neither was wiring in my own 50 amp breaker and outlet. This stuff is dead simple to work on, and between breakers, grounds, and fuses, you aren't going to hurt anything.

Crazy that it's a $700 option, too, when it's simply some thick gauge wire attached to the battery. Perhaps manufacturers are reluctant to install DC fast charging ports when there is no universal standard? Manufacturers should have settled on a charging standard before offering DC fast...

Should be a simple matter to simply cut the cable to any length you desire and solder on new connectors. I wouldn't make cable length be my driving factor when selecting an EVSE.

Seriously, no heat pump for heat? That would be very disappointing considering the Leaf ditched resistive heating pretty early on (5 years ago). Doesn't make sense to me because the car already has a heat pump to cool the cabin. Just reverse it and you can now heat the cabin. That's what heat...

Reiteration is valuable because new people are always seeing the forum. There will always be repeat questions, repeat answers, and repeat opinions. Heck, I don't even know what grievances the OP had. Perhaps they didn't post them recent enough for me to notice them. If it was about seat comfort...

I doubt that most people expect engineering changes when they point out product deficiencies. It's important for customers to have access to deficiencies to make informed purchasing decisions. That's mostly why I'm on this forum. I was on Priuschat 2 years before I bought my used (reconstructed...

Note that only single phase power is common in U.S. households, regardless of 120v or 240v. It appears that the Bolt EVSE can safely be used on 240v circuits without modification. Nissan Leaf EVSEs can be used on 240v circuits with simple modifications (replacing the 120v varistor with 2x 120v...

New cells should be closely matched and balanced from the factory, so balancing wouldn't be as important initially. As the battery ages, small differences in construction and environment compound to make individual cell differences substantial. This makes cell balancing more important as these...

TLDR entire thread- Part of the confusion is what we users are calling 0% or 100%, and what the actual 0% and 100% charge levels are. The car doesn't allow the battery to drain to actual 0% or to charge to actual 100%, and this is to preserve battery life. For this reason, it mostly doesn't...

US laws regarding right of way are absurd, and do the opposite of ensuring pedestrian safety. Since the law gives right of way to pedestrians, even on motor vehicle roadways, it conditions pedestrians to assume vehicles will yield to them. People are so comfortable that they will cross roads...

Does the Bolt not come with a reverse camera? A light and noise isn't going to get much more attention than a whole moving vehicle. In other words, if someone is so distracted by their phone that they don't see a 3,000 lb object moving, then they aren't likely to notice a small light and noise...