anuary 7, 2018 10:03 PM, Cor van de Water via EV
wrote:
David,
You mean a rear half 3rd gen Prius like this one asking $1000
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/d/toyota-prius-gen-3/6436699404.htm
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David,
You mean a rear half 3rd gen Prius like this one asking $1000
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/d/toyota-prius-gen-3/6436699404.htm
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2018 8:58 PM
To: E
For many years, the airport Schiphol in the hall with luggage belts and
the adjacent waiting area for pickup
have been using a system like this, where the light follows movements.
The only consequence is that if you sit down to wait for your luggage
and there is nobody moving near you,
then the lig
Looking at the Batt Bridge circuit:
http://www.evdl.org/pages/battbridge.html
You can see that it connects to the pack at 3 points:
bottom, mid and top.
So, in order to cut the current, you need to disconnect at least 2.
This can easily be done adding a reed relay in series with the two resistors
s
Kevin,
All modern LEDs are (ultra) high brightness
and "high efficiency" is another term for the same thing.
In fact, it will be difficult to find the old low-brightness LEDs
for the green, so you might need to accept that green will also
be very bright. It does not make a difference for the operat
Jim,
Looking at microeconomics it does not make sense indeed.
However, anyone paying extra for green power sends a signal
to the market that green power has higher value.
They are voting with their money.
The market, in return, installs more green power where it might
not have been feasible agains
Bruce,
Why all the haste to get a TX title while DMVs are notorious for taking
~6 weeks to even open their mail?
One of my (former) colleagues worked for our company in GA but then was
asked to come work at HQ
in CA, so he drove his GA car to CA and it was more than a year later
before he had his f
Actually,
you'd want to store (renewable) energy when there is a surplus.
The market for grid storage is fast growing and I hear little about the
old tech of
rotating (flywheel) storage and adding pumped storage is not easy to
grow either
due to real estate, the only area that I hear massive invest
Ken
That is exactly why many residences decide to get solar, to counter the
(steep) increase in electric usage
and while they are at it, they often cover the house load as well, so
using your (slightly flawed) argument,
I could say that EVs can cause *less* pollution when many new EV'ers
decide to
Mark,
The argument does not pass the smell test.
To me, it sounds like "we have not had this problem before (outages) and thus
it must be those new plasma TVs to blame."
It is easy to find a blame instead of being accountable and confess that the
investment in infrastructure has not kept
pace wit
I believe the term used is "full sun equivalent" as it takes the many low
irradiance hours and virtually compresses those into a period of full noontime
sun, which delivers about 1000W per sq meter on a plane perpendicular to the
sun rays.Your latitude, time of year and local weather determine h
You do not want to know what (passenger)trains are dumping on the
tracks...
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] Solar tra
Marc,
Iam afraid you are not making the Leaf specification situation better.
When Lawrence says he has a 30kW battery, he means 30 kWh.
That is a 2016 Leaf with the improved battery (normal was 24 kWh).
All Leafs have a 90 kW rating IIRC, meaning that they can accelerate
with the
motor producing up
Lawrence,
At 4.5 miles per kWh when driving continuous 55 MPH,
you drive 55 miles in 1 hour. In that time you consume
55/4.5 = 12.2 kWh of energy.
If you want to generate that same energy while driving,
to keep your battery at the same level, you need to be
generating an average of 12.2 kW into the
Increasing inductance slows down the ramp up of current, so adding inductance
to a motor with too low inductance helps to get better current limit,
especially on controllers with low switching speed where a single step will
cause so big current change that it can damage the controller.This is en
The battery is not the only thing that supplies current to the motor.
The switching of the controller connects the motor to the battery for a
period of time,
followed by a period where the "freewheel" (diode or transistor) inside
the controller
carries all the current, also during the time that the
le park where they
>want.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Dec 13, 2017, at 3:55 PM, Cor van de Water via EV
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Correct,
>>> Green means "available" so you would instinctively expect an empty
>spot
>>&
Breakthrough?
Utility transformers and even the Prius motors have been oil cooled for many
years.
It might not have been applied to batteries until now, but that is not because
it is new
technology, but simply because it was not necessary yet, even for Tesla.
Cor.
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Correct,
Green means "available" so you would instinctively expect an empty spot
at a green light.
I would suggest a slight change to the meaning of the colors:
Red = charging (no matter how fast/slow)
Yellow = charging ended, spot should be vacated as soon as possible
(grace timer)
Green = chargin
That is why it is so infuriating to see the same Tesla S always parked in the
first EV charging stall at a local hospital,
clearly a member of the staff, never plugged in. And plenty other EVs
scrambling to get the charging cords stretched
out to the adjacent parking spots when available, there
Fred,
It seems simple to me:
If you are OK with ilquid cooling setup then Volt modules are
interesting.
If not, Leaf modules are the way to go.
Cor.
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C
It usually comes down to three things-Warranty, design load and pilot
expectations.If the manufacturer does not want to take responsibility for the
unheard things that some people manage to do with a hitch, they will simply say
that a hitch voids warranty.The design load of the frame will limit
Peri,
What you describe is essentially the indoor unit of a split heatpump,
you just supply the heat from a different source.
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Jim,You perfectly describing the situation where the design of the heating
system is inadequate for the building, which typically happens when it was not
designed but someone just installed something and hoped for the best.My mom had
her house converted to floor heating, which included insulatio
That is why Heat Pump heaters are preferably designed without registers,
meaning that they do not blow air.
I have always been amazed by how most of USA has forced air blowing
around through their house, which I find
rather uncomfortable. I am from Europe, where you have radiators under
windows tha
Heat pump heating is always more efficient than resistive heating because the
losses in the pump are added to the heat output, so when temp delta increases
and efficiency drops, you approach the case of the resistive heating. Most heat
pumps are applied to protect from excessive pump operation a
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On 20 Nov 2017 at 9:38, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
> In my book charging a 40kWh battery in 1/60th hour (one minute) to 80%
> means 40 x 0
David,
In my book charging a 40kWh battery in 1/60th hour (one minute) to 80%
means
40 x 0.8 x 60 = 1920 kW, almost 2 Megawatt.
Still a pretty large number but not the power consumption of one of the
smaller states.
Since fueling a gas car can easily take 5 mins, I presume that 400kW of
power would
Flex-fuel vehicles are notorious for *never* running on anything but
regular gas,
while giving tax breaks to corporations for the remote possibility that
such a
vehicle *could*, potentially, be run on Ethanol or similar alternative
fuel...
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My 1994 US Electricar truck will come to a full stop under regen
only if the road is not flat, it will then continue to creep against
the regen braking, since it does not engage the friction brake
unless I press the brake pedal.
Apparently the Smart Braking System in the Leaf (which is present in
OK, so Nissan spends a lot of hoopla to say that BMW is right?
And BMW is not even the first, they just made it more popular.
Many other EVs have experimented with increased regen braking selection.
My 1994 US Electricar has the option by switching its "gear stick"
to a different "gear" to choose b
I find it hard to believe that
would make a difference of 100% between cool and warm weather driving.
Again, the first question is about the meter: does it include all the aux or is
it just traction?
Peri
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Peri,
If you have tires already well pumped (~45 PSI) and nothing is dragging
then I found that tweaking the toe of the front wheels makes a lot of
difference
in the consumption (mi/kWh) which can easily make a difference of more
than 10 miles per charge.
My first Leaf had trouble allowing me even
My current EV (Chevy S10 factory converted by US Electricar)
has pretty aggressive regen, depending on the gear selector
(the motor is fixed coupled to the wheels, so the gear selector is just
a set of switches telling the controller to adjust the drive parameters)
What I see when driving through t
Click on the link and when the error shows up, place the cursor in the address
line and delete the extra characters after the .jpgThen it will showCor
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Original message From: Michael Ross via EV
Date: 10/21/17 12:47 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Elect
Note that all those EVs replace gasoline cars and by typically being
more efficient as well as partial powered by renewables,
mean that the *big picture* is shifting from all-oil to partial
renewables by being converted from pure gasoline
to electric power.
BTW, here in California, I often hear the
Paul,
The controller may be perfectly fine.
If there is no voltage on points L3, L5 and L7 *in reference to traction
battery negative* then fuse 3 (15 amps) is blown or a mis-wiring has happened,
because only fuse 3 and the key switch are between L3 and battery positive.
This discussion list is ac
Many years ago this truck was converted to EV, using lead-acid.
Today it has a 2013 Leaf drivetrain, including the Leaf's front struts
but retaining its original rear axle (this always was a front drive
truck)
The body style is similar to the El Camino, but very light and efficient
2-seater wit
Woops,
Here is the updated video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzMbgpcOwvI
Cor.
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 5:31 PM
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Cc: Cor van de Water
Subject: [EVDL] Nissan
In reality it took all day, but that is the fun of a timelapse.
I have done this a few times now: buy a good quality pack
and install the modules into a 2011 Leaf to make someone's
favorite vehicle as good as new, in particular range-wise.
Note - the second Leaf without front bumper is my own,
My immediate question is not answered in the report: did you go back and put a
notice on the charging station to avoid others receive the same fate?
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Original message From: brucedp5 via EV
Date: 10/11/17 11:00 AM (GMT-08:00) To: ev@lists.ev
Correction,
I found the stamped spec on the Weller iron: it is 24V, 50W
with the base having the transformer and temp regulator.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 3:24 PM
To: Electric Vehicle
I always solder with a temp regulated iron from Weller. The strain relief in
the handle provides the mechanical sturdiness and the wires are long enough to
have no issue with some wicked up solder making them stiff as they are not
required to be flexible, being embedded in the handle. I don't kn
Nope.The battery packs are not there because they are sold. I am still kicking
myself for passing on the (too expensive in my frugal mind) 2016 30kWh pack
that they offered when they received these vehicles. All were disabled and
could explicitly not be sold whole, only parted out.There was a la
Bob is right in that it is often in the inverter that the voltage gets
boosted first, then chopped into a sine wave.
In fact, I have an inverter laying around that I want to do this, not
for solar charging (I will explain why in a minute)
but for running it off my Nissan Leaf pack, which consists o
I remember when Toyota was ramping up their Prius production and introducing
the new 2004 model
and GM engineers had looked at the car and concluded that there was no way
Toyota was making money
and was probably going to stop soon as they should be making a loss on every
car produced.
Soon afte
les and have done nothing! except a weekly car
wash. Anyhow, back to the ship, it probably needs a diesel engine to run!
On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 6:56 PM, Cor van de Water via EV
wrote:
All the documents I can find on electric ship propulsion shows that it was for
efficiency re
All the documents I can find on electric ship propulsion shows that it was for
efficiency reasons and flexibility,
so the prime mover + generator can be placed anywhere and no long prop shaft is
needed.
Only the last of the 3 docs that I read (the IEEE one) has a short mention of a
war-time reas
Lawrence,
The copyright notice in the bottom says 2015, was the Bolt already there
at that time?
I thought it was only available at the beginning of this year,
introduced last year
so not yet known (in its finalform) in 2015. That is probably why they
repeated the
Volt model for year 2016, which wa
Some other project fell through,
so now I have a complete Nissan Leaf battery pack worth of cells
available.
They are at about 70% capacity ~45 Ah left of the original 64Ah
Price is $80 per module, which is 2 series cells.
Total pack is 48 modules, 96 series cells for approx 360V.
location is
Same here, first car after moving to CA was a 2002 Prius and it still is
my wife's favorite car (daily driver).
Total fleet is 3 Prius hybrids and 2 EVs (S10 truck and Leaf)
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In the Prius community I have heard people extremely dissatisfied with
the clear film
to protect the car, because after several years of UV exposure, it
deteriorates and it
is almost impossible to remove, making a good looking car a mess when de
film becomes
old enough that it starts looking bad fr
Robert,
I totally agree, unless local laws and tariffs make solar unattractive
by paying pennies on the dollar.
If you have the RV stored near your home and you can fit a decent size
battery bank in the RV,
think "Nissan Leaf pack re-packaged into a size that fits in (for
example) the box under a b
Extra fee?
That is adding insult to injury.
The grid-tie solar is always consumed locally, so even the default
payment for solar
produced power, which typically only gives you the *generation* charges,
while also
the *transportation* is taken care of, but not rewarded, is already a
setback for the
Cal,
What is the intention with this charger?
Is it going to be unmanaged, always-on, private but publicly accessible
charging station
that can be used by anyone who wants a charge
or is it in a private parking lot with parking restrictions so it can
only be used by visitors/members
and is it inten
Re: programmable low voltage limit on controller:
I am not too familiar with the Zilla and/or its capability to set a
minimum pack voltage to protect batteries from too deep discharge,
but my controller is very configurable and has input battery high and
low limits, which will simply disable the co
Paul,
It seems you have difficulty grasping some concepts presented here,
you would do well by studying them further before commenting.
Maybe you just read too casually or fast that you missed what was being
explained to you.
You have the right to not believe what anyone says.
Wise people listen
Hi Jay,
Indeed an 8' piece of cable 10 AWG copper has close to 0.01 Ohms of
resistance.
The Leaf modules have about 3 mOhm internal resistance so 0.006 for the
series pair
but you have 3 series pairs in parallel, so 0.002 Ohms in your case.
Now for the internal resistance of the golf cart batteries
Paul,
What mods did you do to your US Electricar?
I have only modified the battery (installed 2 full Leaf packs in the original
battery box)
but I am planning to add a separate (and higher power) charger than the Dolphin
mostly to increase efficiency and not have to run the water pump all the time
Lawrence,
Al Li-Ion batteries that I have seen are pouches.
Prismatic cells? Cut one open and you will see a bundle of pouches
attached to the two connecting bolts on top.
Nissan Leaf modules? 4 pouches in the Alu module case.
So, find the right size pouches, slide a good set back into the case and
Matthew,
It sounds like your pack has cells that are severely out of balance
and now the charger does not push the pack voltage high enough
to where the Curtis re-calibrates its SoC estimation, so it continues
to go off a bad estimation.
If you have a way to push a smaller (1 or 2 Amp) current into
The BMS does not need to know the SOC.
The User Interface (dash) often presents an estimation of the SoC and
this means that
either the car (Motor Controller) or the BMS needs to measure the
current
and integrate over time to estimate the Ah in/out of the pack so that an
estimation
of SoC is availa
about the contactor box,
Cor.
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Great find, Lee!
I have many contactors that I do not know what to do with,
since I have take
Great find, Lee!
I have many contactors that I do not know what to do with,
since I have taken several Leaf packs apart and I typically am left
with the contactor box, which has two main contactors for 200+ Amps
and one small contactor for pre-charge, all in one nice unit and
controlled
by 3 separa
Hi David,
That is only a meter,
the OP's problem is that his charger/discharger will switch off after
100Ah
while his cells have 180Ah capacity, so he can't properly cycle a cell.
Cor.
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Hi Fred,
Maybe you can trick your charger by adding a second resistor of the same
value parallel to the original for current measurement,
so the current measurement shows half the actual current
and then configure your charger to charge and discharge at half the max
value so that now the 100Ah limi
Even the continuous draw of 80mA by the Emeter will drain my truck's small 12v
battery, so i have rewired it to the contactor coil power, meaning that the
Emeter is only powered when either driving or charging, not when parked. No
more dead batteries.
Cor
> On Jul 23, 2017, at 7:49 PM, Lee Har
Let's stop the name calling right here.
It is fine to correct a factual error
and you can even give your opinion of a certain statement or position
without attacking the person, it typically reflects bad on the speaker.
Thanks,
Cor.
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n the safe side...
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Water via EV
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 9:51 PM
To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Weird Nissan Leaf behavior: 3rd charginglightblinks
after new pack install: cold weather
that an EVSE has a relay interrupting
the 240V supply."
Is this relay a mechanical relay or a contactor or solid state relay?
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Subject:
I looked at the pictures and wondered the same - if the yellow cord was
the connection
between car and EVSE then the only way the EVSE coud set the car on fire
would be burning bits to fall off and somehow reach the car, as most of
the cord appears undamaged.
However, it appears that the coiled yel
le on fire.
David Kerzel
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 7:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] ? Is this really a Smart Fortwo ED EV that burnt to
acrisp ?
Not
Not true, the EVSE is supposed to limit the charging current to what is
safe to draw from the electrical connection.
For example, a 240V 30A circuit must be protected by the EVSE telling
the car that it can only draw 24A (80% of 30A) continuous.
The EVSE needs to select the proper duty cycle of the
Especially problematic are appliances that try to control their heat
or have protection mechanisms (for example against overheating) that you
need to
be able to rely on, such as an overheat protection switch or fuse,
or a simple thermostat contact.
Those were all designed for AC. Run them on DC an
eel with a pictogram of a steering wheel and 3
squiggly lines rising from it...
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ou please describe the options/features/differences that make up
> the cold weather package?
> --
> -Chris
>
>> On July 7, 2017 5:58:46 PM CDT, Cor van de Water via EV
>> wrote:
>> Exactly,
>>
>> Either I will find a way to re-program my current LBC to s
not possible?
> On Jul 7, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Cor van de Water via EV
wrote:
>
> Exactly,
>
> Either I will find a way to re-program my current LBC to support the
> cold weather package
>
> or I will have to find an LBC from a cold weather package battery (I
>
Off Switch at Harbor Freight. Quality
tools & low prices.
Damon
________________
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Sent: Monday, July 3, 2017 6:11:47 PM
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Subject: [EVDL] Weird Nissan Leaf behavior: 3rd charging light blinks
after new pack in
OK, I did something to my Leaf that I need to get fixed, because now the
Leaf is charging the 12V battery whenever the car should be asleep,
as a result it is losing charge from the main pack.
It started two days ago when I removed the new (warranty replacement
battery) from this 2012 Leaf SL wit
I typically see the temperature bars vary from 4 on cold days to 6 on hot days,
due to the ambient temp alone.
I made a note of a Fast Charge with LeafSpy reporting a rise of about 10 deg C
in pack temp when charging from
SoC 40% to 90%.
I suspect that your pack was already warming up due to long
After the Fukushima disaster, Japan has been using Leaf + external box
plugged into the CHAdeMO to have mobile electric generators
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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 10:46 PM
To: Electric Vehicle Dis
There are generally two different areas of V2G (Vehicle to Grid) that each have
their own characteristics and are totally different in their impacts:
1. would better be called Grid Storage, this is where the grid is supplied with
less generation capacity than what is needed for longer periods of
I have a 2012 brilliant Silver Leaf SV in good shape, minus a scratch on
a rear quarter panel. Someone expressed interest in buying the battery
plus Airco components from the car, so I am checking if anyone is
planning to convert a car or truck using Leaf drivetrain or is
interested in parting out
Since this quest is about a 2011 Leaf which has a 3kW charger, the L2 option
will automatically make this day-long sessions so not pleasant.
L3 is present in the vehicle so that is the preferred method.
Unless someone has a portable L3 charger that can plug into a 240V 50A (RV)
service for 12kW c
Hi Bruce,
I have a bit of experience in transporting a Leaf, since my first Leaf
was picked up in SoCal
(only 1 mile away from the Mexican border, literally exit 1 on highway
5, where the lot of
an insurance company had it stored) and so when I went to get it, I
borrowed the light truck
from a coll
Harry,
Starting Battery load testers are never a good tool to assess an EV
battery,
except maybe their ability to weed out duds that drop out as soon as you
put a little load on them,
but the best way to verify EV batteries is capacity test, after first
making sure you have added distilled water to
Bill,
Maybe organize a transport of a couple from California?
I have 2 Leafs that I can't get sold for a reasonable price here.
Cor.
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Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 1:09 PM
To: ev@lists.evdl.org; ev-
Thanks for your warning,
Batteries that I buy are always from running cars, where the buyer could
inspect the capacity bars before closing the deal.
Once a car was "messed with" (incomplete at delivery) and was promptly
returned.
The new battery that I currently have is installed by the dealer as
w
Paul,
Maybe they confused "balanced" and "stiffened"? I don't know as I did
not read the Tesla driver's experience as there was no link provided.
As far as I know, the Tesla has ~24V modules (blades) with 6 series
connected herds of round cells (approx 6-7 dozen in parallel) and the
BMS only has ac
Paul,
Were you charging Leaf or Bolt?
I charged my Leaf twice at EMW's CHAdeMO fast charger which can go up to
120A
And I too noticed that after a short initial max power charge, it starts
to taper.
I had my LeafSpy Pro display the cell voltages and it is easy to see
that the reason
That the Leaf i
Hi Steve,
I have two sources of good batteries:
1. Dismantlers, taking battery from a young crashed Leaf (typical 2015)
2. Buying a car that qualified for warranty replacement, which gives
brand new battery.
I just happened to recently buy a Leaf that received a brand new 24kWh
battery in Feb 2017
Rush,
I presume you are talking about Caltech in Pasadena, CA?
>From the short description at
http://ee.caltech.edu/news/846
it sounds like they use a similar approach as EMW is offering
for connecting multiple high power chargers to a single service
connection
and sharing the current as demanded.
I have two Leaf enclosures in my yard to experiment with and also bought a new
battery for installation in the Leaf of anyone interested.
Cor.
> On May 18, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Willie via EV wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 05/18/2017 09:02 AM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
>> With all the used Leafs on and co
Early Leafs (2011 and 2012 model years) have the ability to select that
charging always stops at 80%.
I always use this to reduce stress on the battery in daily use as I do
not need the maximum range in daily use,
But this 80% charge has also been billed as a benefit for people who
live "on top of
>From a Physics perspective, adding elevation increases your potential
energy (which comes out of the battery in an EV)
Which you gain back upon descent.
Formula: Ep = mgh
In Earth's gravitational field, near earth the g = 9.81
m is mass in kg
h is height in meters.
So, using some random rounded n
Bruce, others,
If you have any questions about the pictures and description then let me
know,
I found this Leaf at a local tow yard and salvaged the parts from under
the hood
As they were protected by the firewall from the fire in the car.
The car is from local, but I have not traced the former own
Rush Dougherty
Tucson AZ 85719
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ge parts from dismantlers.
Just to set the record straight on my earlier comment.
(I am quite sure that Tesla *could* disable a car, but I would hope
Such drastic measures are only used in case of a stolen vehicle)
Cor.
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Hi Bob,
I find that I start developing two distinct driving patterns, now that I have
been in EVs for several years
After having driven gas cars for several decades.
In an ICE I will essentially always carefully depress the throttle except in
an emergency, as I am always conscious about the wear
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] Hacking a supercharger. Have a charge on Elon.
On 2 May 2017 at 11:58, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
> And, if Tesla suspects any foul play, they can instantly disable a
> Tesla ...
This, and the creepy constant monitoring, a
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