Driving Range

Bosch sees 300km (186 mile) EV range by 2020

June 9, 2013
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This is what nobody else is reporting We wrote an article recently about Bosch providing the first $450 Level 2 home charging system (found here). Upon reading the news of Bosch announcing a 180 mile range mass market electric vehicle (EV) by 2020 (found here), we thought that we needed to do some homework. So [...]

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PEVs in California triple from 2011 to 2012

May 23, 2013
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EVs gaining ground in California The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) has released its second survey of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners (found here). We reported on the results of the first survey last August (found here). With information provided by over 2,000 electric vehicle (EV) owners, this report provides information and details found [...]

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Another EV battery breakthrough

May 6, 2013
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Potential for twice the current driving range A team from the Australian University of Wollongong’s Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (kind of sounds like where the X-Men came from) is developing an improved lithium-ion battery chemistry. Professor Zaiping Guo and her team, using nano engineering along with Germanium based materials, have developed a battery [...]

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AAA Washington offers Level 3 charging as emergency service

March 22, 2013
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Mobile quick charge on the way Following introductions in Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, AAA members in Seattle can look forward to mobile quick charges if needed. Not powered by a generator, but by the truck’s engine itself, the EV owner can now get enough juice to get to a charger instead of having [...]

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ChargePoint and Blink to offer interoperability

March 8, 2013
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Belong to one network, get access to the other In yet another innovation in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, two of the largest EV charge networks have developed a company that will allow the members of one network to use the other networks facilities. This opens the way to a much more convenient ownership experience [...]

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2013 LEAF range increases 15 percent over 2012

March 1, 2013
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Sample Electric Car EPA Sticker 84 miles range for 2013 vs. 73 miles for 2012 Over the past few days we have seen varying reports about the expected range for the 2013 LEAF. Not wanting to speculate, nor provide misleading information using non-standard testing methods, we went to the source – Nissan North America. We [...]

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Nissan offers LEAF battery capacity warranty

December 28, 2012
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Notification provided on LEAF forum In an interesting move, Nissan announced the availability of a new LEAF battery capacity warranty via the online forum MyNissanLEAF.com rather than through their typical press release format. We see this as an indication by Nissan that the voice of the owner via these types of avenues is being listened to, [...]

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Nissan LEAF Very Low Battery warning research

October 27, 2012
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How much is really left when the warnings start? We had some errands to run today, and as we did, we gradually realized that we were running low on juice. Having not run the battery this low in quite some time, we thought that this presented an excellent opportunity to do some research. On May 12, [...]

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Nissan reaches out via You Tube

October 8, 2012
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Nissan’s first open discussion with EV advocate Chelsea Sexton Nissan Executive Vice President Andy Palmer answered some questions from electric vehicle (EV) advocate Chelsea Sexton regarding the current and future state of the Nissan LEAF in the US. Ms. Sexton has been asked by Nissan to organize an independent global EV advisory board to provide Nissan with another [...]

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Class action filed September 24 against Nissan

October 2, 2012
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Nissan holds the line On September 24, 2012 two plaintiffs, one California based and one Arizona based, filed a class action against Nissan (found here) regarding LEAF’s battery capacity and driving range. The class consists of all 2011-2012 Nissan LEAFs sold or leased in California and Arizona. Quickly reviewing the suit, we find many valid issues [...]

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