Jobs NISSAN Promised with DOE Dollars Won't Happen with Outdated Technology
"...Our maximum observed winter range over January and
February has been only 80 kilometres, using the heater pretty much constantly.
This is exactly half of Leaf’s commonly espoused 160 km range...."
That’s ONLY 50 miles per charge……
What I hadn’t realized was that ice had collected
inside the charge port, and the connected EVSE was not delivering the expected
charge. I perhaps could or should have noticed, as the charging light throbs
when the plug is connected but the charge is not flowing, such as when the
charge timer is set to start the power flow at off-peak hours.
But we only realized this just as we were all heading
out to the party, gifts in hand. The gasoline press car I happened to have that
week was a not-so-family-friendly two-door Scion iQ, which is bigger than a
Smart car, but barely. So we hopped in the Leaf, put it in Eco mode, and used
the heat judiciously there and back to nurse it safely home.
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