I have a 2013 Leaf. It has a charging door open button inside at the left of the steering wheel. I normally use the ‘inside’ button when I get home and the EV is parked for the day. Occasionally, I forget to unlock the door before I get out, or if I happen to not plug it in until later in the evening. The remote button is useful (saves opening the car, pressing the inside button, locking the car again) but really is only a small convenience. Especially if you get the plug from the EVSE rack only to find you’ve forgotten to unlock the charge port door. I like having the remote charging door unlock on the fob, even if I only use it once every few weeks.
Tom Keenan > On Oct 13, 2018, at 2:12 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > >> On 14 Oct 2018 at 7:57, Tom Parker via EV wrote: >> >> My 2016 Leaf has remote charge port opening -- the key fob has a 3rd >> button, if you hold it down for about 2 seconds, the door opens. > > Darned if I can see the point of this. How hard could it be to open the > charging port door with your left hand, when you're standing there with the > charging connector in your right hand? (Or vice versa.) > > Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like I'd be more trouble to get > the keys out and find the right button. And then you have to hold it down > for a while. Nuisance. > > OTOH, inside release fuel filler doors make sense. They help prevent fuel > theft. But with an EV, who's gonna steal your electrons? Or is that a > thing now somehow? Or EV charging port vandalism? If so, does a remote > release really help? > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
