Recent content by sierrabill

One more option is the Siemens Versicharge. We have the one with the 20' cord, its currently $550 on Amazon and its easily adjustable from 1.8 to 7.2 KW rate of charge (5 total choices of rates). It takes about 15 seconds to adjust to different charge rates. We use this feature alot as we...

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, tgreene. I also emailed the following: To Whom it may concern, I have recently been made aware of your spending priorities with regard to L2 EV charging infrastructure vs. hydrogen fill stations. It seems to be much more cost effective to...

We bought our RAV4 24 Dec 2012 and now have about 28K miles on it. I too can't say "zero" problems as the heater died at the end of last winter. We also used to see the "Check EV System" warning, though the car always worked fine. When Toyota of Roseville fixed the heater, they also updated...

Its been 8 months since the last post here regarding replacement tires (I don't think I'm interested in investing hundreds of $$ into new rims also), and with 18K on the original tires, its time for new shoes. This thread and one other one on this forum don't seem to have come to any any real...

Weeelllllll, I did take the RAV to the dealer. In my post of 2 March I was describing how we have never had the RAV stop working despite having the screen of death appear many times. Then the heater died about a month ago which is the end of life to my wife so I took it to Roseville Toyota...

Just for documentation... our heater quit working late this winter, which is the first issue we have had to take the RAV to the dealer (Roseville Toyota) for, 150 miles away. I trailered it because I could not get a straight answer as to whether or not it could be fully charged by the time...

Er, back to rating dealers, though the recent comments here are very interesting as I try to formulate some similar solutions. We live in the Northern Sierra, closest dealer was either Roseville Toyota or the dealer in Davis. We flipped a coin and bought from Roseville, which was a "good"...

Titanium, kevlar, yikes...sounds like more expense. I say we wait and see just how much of a problem the issue of penetrating the battery compartment is. As has already been said, many, many more fires have happened in oil burners than EVs...we need a larger/longer data set to extrapolate...

Not knowing how to post a picture here (tried clicking on "Img" but couldn't figure it out).... I had a magnetic sign made for our RAV that says; "Solar Electric RAV4EV" in large letters (sign is about 16" X 24"), at the bottom left is the Tesla logo with the text "Tesla inside". So we can...

Just a heads up on another experience with our 2012 RAV4EV. We've had it for 15 months, racked up 16K miles so far and have had no problems. Many times the screen of death ("Check EV something or other, take it to your dealer") has reared its ugly head on the right side display but has...

I needed some G48 also and called Roseville Toyota for some. They had it in stock and were willing to sell it to me but being 3 hours away, I asked that they ship it, which they would not do. They were willing to work with me though and had it sent (on their truck to the Toyota place in Chico...

Hey Folks, I've been reading posts about the screen of death (EV system check) and a couple other threads for a couple hours now...don't think I've posted anything yet as I had been spending more time on the Ver 1 RAV ev discussion board. This forum is of course more relevant though so I'll be...

We have been using the Siemens Versicharge since Jan 2013 and have had zero problems with it. I haven't taken it with me yet on a longer adventure but am planning to do so as it seems easy to pull off the wall and light and adjustable in output. We use the adjustability feature quite a bit as...