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I've certainly noticed the same effect. My daily commute is about 60km and I typically get home with about 30km on the GOM. I mostly drive in ECO and only use the heater coming home. If it's raining it's more likely to be about 15km left (or even Low Battery Warning) when I get home.

Leigh

Hi Rodger - It's good to get another LEAF owner here. My red LEAF and I have just celebrated three years of happy commuting.

I'm also in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne

Leigh

I agree. It was good to see almost all the production EVs in one place, as well as a couple of superb conversions (I'm looking at you, Johny). That included some tempting electric motorcycles as well. Congratulations to the organisers for a great day. The weather was kind compared to today (Monday) ...

I and a few other Nissan LEAF owners will be there. Not officially displaying but ready to chat.

Leigh

acmotor wrote:That does beg the old question.... Why was the EVSE brick for the Leaf and iMiEV fitted with a 15A plug when it draws absolute max around 9.5A, no surge and pf >.98 ?

It does prevent uninformed people plugging the EVSE into double adapters or those $2.50 power boards.

Leigh

I also bought a dongle which looks like yours. It didn't seem to work but it certainly didn't crash the CAN. From reading the forums there seems to be a large variation in quality of these cheap units from China. I bought another dongle which looks like this which works fine with Leaf Spy app but I ...

BCI were selling an electric school bus a couple of years ago. A school operator in Vic bought one. That would be Crown Coaches. Crown Coaches I see this bus, and their BCI Hybrid bus, about once a week coming out os a school on Springvale Road in Donvale so I suspect the school requests them speci...

I have idly looked for the chargers at Fed Square (Melbourne) and the Airport but not finding them, kind of given up on J1772 for now. I've used the J1772 units at the Airport (Level 2 next the walkway to Terminal 3/Virgin) a couple of times over the last 18 months. You needed a Blink card then, I ...

haha-it changed! I was trying to see it change! NoTailPipe - which colour did you choose? I am tossing up between black or white. White is likely as the Australian model interior isn't as white as the Japanese pictures. I chose Red as it goes faster http://forums.aeva.asn.au/smileys/smiley1.gif Leigh

The solution here is for your EVSE to change the charge rate in real time as your solar output changes and your other loads change. That way you can have a 6.6kw charger, but most of the time charge much more slowly to maximize the amount of solar power used to charge the car (and minimize the expo...

I have 3kW of solar panels installed. Because I have solar panels SP Ausnet requires me to be on a Time Of Use tariff. This is (inc GST) 34.21 cents/kWh peak (7am-11pm Mon-Fri) and 20.46 cents/kWh off-peak (all other times). Because I only got the panels installed recently I only get 8 cents/kWh as ...

I've been routinely getting (according to the dash) 160Wh/km in winter and was getting 140-150Wh/km in summer so 120Wh/km sounds suspicious to me as well.

The guess-o-meter is however notoriously optimistic so the indicated 100km of range added is unlikely to be achievable.

Leigh

is chargepoint/ orgin energy the only charge point suppliers left in the country ? I heard that there are blink units in Melbourne. any idea who you contact for Australian operations ? going to write up a capex report for work to get a charging station (long to do list, sometime in next 6 months) A...

Thanks for the replies Doug and bladecar.
I'll investigate these options.

Leigh

Lismore_Doug wrote:I have the Bluetooth ODB2 adaptor (not a cheap Chinese one, but the Yank one),

I bought a cheap Chinese one on eBay and it doesn't work properly (you get what you pay for I suppose).

Which particular Yank one did you buy and from whom?

Leigh

My RACV magazine arrived today and there is a story which says the first fast-charging station in Victoria is the one at Swinburne. I also checked the Vic EV Trial website and it also states that Swinburne is the first one (4th July, 2013) and Moreland is "one of the first" (19 July, 2013). For g4qb...

I notice that a number of sites on recargo report a NEMA 5-20R socket. Is that real? Is this provided along with J1772? It would make using these possible for DIYers that do not have J1772, Chademo or SAE - just 15A 3 pin with a small adaptor. For instance, this one in the City of Kingston: http://...

g4qber wrote: hi leigh

would you be able to find out how much the unit cost & installation costs?
Thanks.

I don't have any inside contact to request this information. According the the Moreland City Council press release about $50,000 was spent providing the charger and EVSEs.
Press Release

Leigh

g4qber wrote: It might take 1 hr to fully charge
Ie. 100%

30 mins = 80% charge

Possibly for those who really need 100% charge.

Particularly those motoring journalists who seem to believe that EV drivers regularly charge from completely empty to 100%, having presumably pushed their car to the charger.

Leigh

The charger at Moreland claims to be the first in Victoria, so I won't quibble with that. There is another CHAdeMO charger operational at Swinburne Uni, 20 William St, Hawthorn. Look it up on Recargo. I just found this out from the Nissan LEAF Australia Facebook page. It's also chargepoint and is fr...

For those of us lucky enough to be driving EVs with Chademo (Fast DC) charger inlets: The first (so it says) Chademo Level 3 charger in Melbourne is now operational. I checked it out last weekend. It's at the Moreland Town Hall, 90 Bell St. You enter down a one-way laneway from Bell Street. It requi...

30% loss in Batt capacity Don't get me wrong. Capacity degradation in Li-ion batteries is a real issue for all EV owners, including me, and is dependant on climate. My Samsung Galaxy S3 is only 12 months old and barely lasts 18 hours before requiring charging (was significantly longer when new). Th...

g4qber wrote:
Makes me think twice about the leaf if I am living in a hot climate

Single data point:
Today marks 12 months I have had my LEAF. 22500km. So far no battery degradation observed.

But then most people wouldn't call Melbourne a "hot climate"

Leigh

I bought the last pair from Bryce and put them on my LEAF yesterday.
Now I'm all legal

Leigh

(Taking a similar approach to acmotor for his i-Miev) 21000 km in 10 months I only charge to 80% (Nissan "long life mode") Weekday commute: Home -> daughter school -> work: 40km. 90 minutes. No heater usually because the car pre-heats while plugged in. work -> home: 30 km. 60 minutes. Heater used in...