I just wanted to share with the group, something which may apply to other EVs and even non-evs. I'll spare you all the excitement, and skip toward the end, the part that might be worth everyone learning about before they need it.
I drove 137 miles on 3/13, including 3 stops to charge, one unsuccessful, one successful, one partially successful. The 138th mile, to the curb in front of my house, was assisted by a good friend driving my wife's minivan and a steel cable. The last time I towed like this, cell phones were not widespread. towed 1 mile, made 2 turns, got 3 honks :-) The car was so dead, it couldn't open the charge port door. Google's first result was not for my make/model/year/trim level, but the second result was great. I opened the charge port manually, charged the 12V battery. The car would not start. I wasn't sure if the system needed 12V or the "full" 14 Volts, so I called a local volunteer organization. They came out with lights and booster pack. They confirmed that my charging the 12V battery was successful. Then I realized, the Leaf needed a reboot. Once it booted up, it was willing to take a Trickle charge, and once I built another L6-30 extension cord, it took Level 2 charge. (I had retired 3 big servers at work, and pack-ratted the 6 power cords and got a bunch of matching sockets on ebay). If you are so inclined, it is useful to identify your tow points. I do not have the screw-in hook, but the underbody cover on my Leaf is shot, so it was time to remove it and access the crossmember which is conveniently hollow and has openings. The Upside to this adventure was - my wife is ready for me to trade up. Negotiations are no longer stalled :-) The Leaf was good for 5 years, it's time to quadruple the range. I'm studying the status of the Kona Electric recall. My neighbor said it's the best car he ever owned. Maybe some of this information will be helpful to someone one day. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210322/fd864397/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
