How does the system used by Ford and Rivian work? The article discusses
"software coordination with Tesla". With an actual Tesla, you just plug
in, the car satisfies the charger that it should be charged, and billing
communication is handled by the car. With magic dock, you can charge
any CCS ca
From: "(-Phil-)"
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:53:48 -0700
What model? If it's an older S/X then unfortunately they don't have the
hardware to sleep fully.
Yes, it is a 2015 Model S, so that explains it.
If it's plugged in, then it will take it from the wall when SoC drops
a bit
Thanks, Phil!
From: "(-Phil-)"
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:30:58 -0700
Teslas will use a lot of power if you leave sentry mode running, but without
that, it should sleep and not use much range. Sentry keeps the contactors
closed 24/7 and sucks down about 200W.
That is about 5kWh/
Interesting. What if you have NCA batteries, which seem to be what is
in older Teslas?
I guess I've been doing the wrong thing, because I've never charged to
100%. It doesn't give any more range than 98%, unless you always start
by driving on the highway or up a hill, because you don't get regen
Thanks, Phil.
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:06:00 -0700
From: "(-Phil-)"
There should be some BMS alerts if this is happening. Just open service
mode and take a look. They may not always show to the customer.
Do you mean that by looking for these alerts I could learn there was a
proble
From: Willie
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:55:12 -0500
My 2013 S is long out of warranty and the battery is fading... Twice,
the battery has stranded the car with about 28 miles of estimated
range left.
This is scary. I regularly drive my 2015 S below this level if I am
going to a su
From: paul dove
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 16:02:36 + (UTC)
>From what I've read it's more often the driver who intervenes and shuts
down Autopilot thus causing the accident.
Tesla keeps track of anyone actually cares.
https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/f
Tesla chargers are infamous for using too much current in their ground
presence testing, so that they trip the 5mA GFCI units. This leads
people to swap out their GFCIs for regular breakers, so this safety
feature makes them less safe in the end.
Ken
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From: Lawrence Rhodes
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:41:54 + (UTC)
The Leaf is a 2016 with 70% battery health(7bars)with 98k on the
clock.
On my 2013 Leaf, there are 12 potential bars of battery health, so 7
bars would mean 7/12, not 70%. Is the 2016 different?
People I know who have the Grizzl-E seems to like it.
Ken
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Here is a data point about Leaf batteries at cold temperatures. We
drove 40 miles, about 40% at highway speeds, with an outside temperature
of 40F. This took the pack from 100% to 29%. Extrapolating gives an
all-out range in these conditions of 57 miles. This is a 2015 24kW pack
with something
From: "Peri Hartman"
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:12:45 +
How do the "lizard" batteries perform in cold weather?
I haven't paid careful attention to ours, but there was certainly not
some huge problem in the cold.
Regardless of range, you're saying the lizard battery won't degrade
We had the battery in our 2013 Leaf replaced with a 2015 24 kWh battery
by Leo & Sons in Lawrence, MA. We are very happy with the result. They
charged us $4600. We didn't have to do anything but drop off the car
and pick it up later.
I wouldn't recommend a 30 kWh battery. The newer 24 kWh "liz
You might want to look at the motors from http://motenergy.com. I used
their ME1007 to repower the snowblower on my Electric Ox and it has
served me very well. They have a bunch of 4.8kW motors running at
3000-3600rpm, which matches your needs. They would certainly be
sufficient, maybe overkill,
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 23:02:43 -0600
It's even worse than that.
I have my EVDL sent to a personal email address. I then forward all my mail
to a gmail.com address on my phone (mainly for SPAM filtering purposes).
For the last couple of weeks, gmail has been bouncing al
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 11:21:16 + (UTC)
From: paul dove
I get real tired of people who don't own a Tesla saying Tesla has a
service problem.
I originated this thread. I do have a Tesla, and that's the only reason
I know about their service issues. For very standard things it is
We have a 2015 Model S that we bought used in December. It's a nice car
and suits our needs well. But Tesla service is a horror. Who ever
heard of a car company where you can't call the service department on
the phone? Instead you have to use their app. And when they break
things, they don't t
I had a good experience from Leo & Sons in Lawrence, MA. Rather a long
drive from Connecticut, though.
Ken
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Thanks for all the advice. I seem to have got off lucky. My chargers
charged up these batteries without trouble. Today I discharged my pack
for 5 hours at 20A. Both undamaged batteries seemed worse than both
"damaged" batteries. By the end of this test, the undamaged batteries
were down to 11.
From: Cor van de Water via EV
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 18:35:26 -0800
I noticed that the blue LED for the 12V charging now
comes on every 24h to maintain the aux battery, so apparently Nissan
knows of the problem and has updated the firmware to increase the aux
battery maintenance.
Hi, all. In my Electric Ox I have 4 12V 135Ah AGM batteries from
Universal Battery. I got this set in April 2019, so they've been
through 3 summers of mowing and two winters of snowblowing (which puts a
lot more stress on them). My previous set lasted 10 years, though they
were showing their age
Yes. But of course you need an inlet, which would be more than $40,
plus wiring, and some way to crimp the pins. Probably by the time
you're done it wouldn't be much more to buy an adapter box. When I had
a Force, I had one from Tucson EV. It worked fine. A 30A one is
currently $135 there.
When I got my Juicebox charger some years ago, there was apparently a
manufacturing flaw in the control pilot wire in the charging cable. The
wire was broken with no damage to the cover. After a while it failed.
I spliced the wire, but to do it I had to remove the cover from the
cable. I tried t
From: "j...@k6ccc.org"
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:52:32 -0700 (PDT)
Interesting concept. The Cessna Skymaster - which this obviously is
a modification of, is one of very few twin engine airplanes that has
both engines on the centerline of the aircraft. That makes it far
easier
From: Jay Summet
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:05:14 -0500
The reason the DC2DC converter does NOT run all the time is that (for
safety) Nissan has chosen to disconnect the HV battery from the rest of
the car (with contactors inside the main battery) whenever the car is
turned of
We have a 2013 Leaf and have replaced the 12V battery. In my opinion
this battery should not exist. It's just something to break or wear
out. Instead the DC/DC converter should run all the time (yes, it's
possible to build such a converter that is efficient at low loads), and
there should be som
I just took some old AGM batteries to Allied Recycling in Walpole, MA
for recycling. They paid me $0.22/pound, so $20 for a 90 lb. battery.
Seems like quite a good price -- much better than I've ever gotten from
a battery company.
Ken
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From: Cor van de Water
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:18:00 -0700
Find out how many bars the car has left and you have a decent indicator of
current range
While this is probably true if you find a car at a junkyard, or a
private seller, my understanding is the Nissan sometimes resets the b
From: Lee Hart
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:56:12 -0600
You may want to check to see if Bright Way is just some outfit that buys
nameless batteries in China and slaps their own labels on them.
How would I find out for sure?
From: brucedp5
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:35:21 -0600 (
Hi, all. I'm trying to replace the UB121350 AGM batteries that I have
in my Electric Ox. I ordered new ones from Wholesale Batteries Direct,
but they are out and Universal Power Group is out at the warehouse also.
They recommended that I get the Bright Way Group BW EV12-155A instead,
for a few do
I bought a Pro 40 in 2015, even though I only have an 20A outlet in my
garage and upgrading is not simple because the garage is connected to
the house by a buried cable. I got it with the idea that I might take
it with me and plug in to people's range outlets or at campgrounds,
though I never have
From: Robert Bruninga
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 16:52:46 -0500
if one generates say 10MWhrs per year of solar and use 10MWhars per
year of electricity, then 100% of your energy is completely fossil
fuel free.
I agree that you are entitled to brag that you used no fossil fuels in
thi
From: Robert Bruninga
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:15:28 -0500
AND more than half of all EV buyers also buy CLEAN ELECTRICITY,
either from their own solar...
The fungibility of electric power makes it difficult to make a clear
statement about this. It's true that if I charge on a sunny
We recently bought a 2013 with chademo & 6.6kw charger for $10,800 list
(plus $500 dealer charge, etc.) and are pretty happy with it. Before
2013 there was no percentage battery charge readout on the dash. After
2013 there was no "charge only to 80%" option.
Recent battery packs are larger, thou
I found the source: http://emotorwerks.com/JuiceBox_Public
They only have through 8.10, whereas I have 8.12, but it is probably not
too different. The code was readable, and if I understood it correctly, the
answer is that after 90 seconds without being able to communicate with
the emotorwerks ser
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:38:03 -0400
From: EVDL Administrator via EV
Given that, my questions would be:
1. Why does it need to talk to their servers at all?
I don't know why they did it this way. I would be much happier if I could
communicate directly with the box, without going
At the end of June I bought the JuiceBox 40 Pro EVSE from Emotorwerks.
I paid $600, and I think that's enough that I'm entitled to a little
customer support. But I've 4 sent requests to their support address and
never received a satisfactory answer. In some cases I got a reply, but
the reply was
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