Re: [AFMUG] OT Odd unsafe situation with my EV

[Chuck]

Sounds like a match to me. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2025, at 2:20 PM, Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:  An Internet search finds this, but it doesn’t sound like it matches your experience. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCMN-23V494-8420.pdf   I assume it wasn’t the accelerator pedal stuck under the floor mat problem?  From your description it definitely wasn’t the pressing on the accelerator thinking it was the brake problem.   From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@go-mtc.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2025 2:55 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Odd unsafe situation with my EV   Once a winter or two ago, when trying to get my Leaf out of my garage after a heavy snowfall, I was rocking it back and forth.  Went into full throttle uncommanded reverse.  Had to hit the shut down button.  I reported it to Nissan and the NTSB place for cars.  They never replied.  Never happened again until this morning.  Cruise control, slowing to get into a left turn at a left turn light.  Went into full throttle forward, the brakes were just BARELY - BARELY able to bring it to a stop part way through the intersection.  Had to hit the kill switch.  Reticent to wake it up to reverse out of the intersection I took my chance.  When the left turn light came on, I started it and put it into drive, again took off full throttle.  I was pulling into my company location and was worried I was going to put it through the wall.  WOW!  Nissan web site says when this happens to shift into neutral and then kill.  I have a hard time finding neutral at a car wash let alone when faced with an immediate full blown in flight emergency.    I love Leafs.  I have had 4 of them I think.  Scary.  Hope it is a known problem with a known solution.  Otherwise Imma gonna trade it.    Best Regards, Chuck McCown McCown Technology Corporation 8401 N Commerce Drive Lake Point, Utah 84074 801-250-9503 Office www.microtrench-blades.com www.mccowntech.com www.terabitnetworks.com   -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

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