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Hi all, Been a long time since I posted here. We bought one of the 2012 Rav4 EVs back in 2013 and had it for over 7 years. Sold it in 2020 and finally got around to writing up a little post on the car and selling it. Loved the car, miss it, but now it's serving a new family...

7 years. 88k miles. May 2013: bought the car Feb 2015: first drive unit replaced at 25k miles Sept 2015: JdeMO installed April 2016: Rear ended, rear door and bumper replaced, bill to the other guy's insurance was ~$5,000 April 2017: second drive unit placed at 57k miles May 2020: 7 years...

Our 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV is now six years old and still going strong. We've logged 81,500 miles so far. For the first 5 years the Rav was our primary car and we drove about 14-15,000 miles a year. One year ago we got a new EV and the Rav became our secondary family car so we drive it a bit less...

Saw this Caltrans Rav in Sacramento this morning. I remember reading here that Caltrans bought a good number of them. I've only seen a couple of the Caltrans Ravs over the years, good to see them still in service. UC Davis Unitrans has or had a 2012, but I haven't seen it lately, instead been...

Pandora will disappear from Entune in November. Have used Pandora a lot to play music for my kids. Can of course still connect my phone via Bluetooth but the onscreen menu was nice and usually worked well.

I drive by the death star, I mean, California Fuel Cell Partnership each morning on my way to work. Note prominent logo of participating auto manufacturers (if you can make that out, this is a cell phone pic). From Wikipedia: In January 1999, two state government agencies—California Air...

For 2013 Spain generated more power from wind than any other source: http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/01/15/inenglish/1389798670_862500.html

Charging at a Target in Davis today. They have two dual ChargePoint stations in front of the store, so 4 EVs could charge at a time. First 2 hours free, $2 an hour after that, it's a great deal. I think the charging stations work for them.... I'm so much more likely to go to Target now. I got 4...

Spent the last 12 days of the year out of state driving icers. Great to be back in EV land. Hope this is a good year for EVs and Happy New Year to all!!

Driving through some small towns in NJ yesterday saw many if not most telephone poles had solar panels on them. From the New Jersey Public Service Electric and Gas utility website: In July 2009, PSE&G received regulatory approval to install 40 megawatts worth of small solar energy units on...

Saw this link posted on another forum: The University of Washington in Seattle & the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking for our feedback on EV charging habits / ownership - if you have 15 mins, this seems like a worthwhile exercise. http://evcharging2013.surveyanalytics.com

In case you haven't seen this story yet: http://www.nextgreencar.com/news/3314/Electric-batteries-may-last-over-a-decade?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoks6rLZKXonjHpfsX56uoqXaO1lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASsFiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSrfMMbd52bgEUhE%3D

Unbelievable. A Leaf owner was arrested and spent about 15 hours in jail for plugging into an elementary school. Got about 5 cents worth before the cops showed up. And this was in the outskirts of Atlanta where the Leaf is king.... the November sales data showed that more Leafs were sold in...

Geeky question: anybody aware of or ever seen any EV or EV-related Xmas ornaments? A friend pointed out this one. Anyone seen any others...

In case you hadn't seen this news: http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/11/solar-ev-charging-comes-to-california-airport/

Exciting times in the EV world: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/25/bmw-i8-sold-out-i3-records-10k-orders/ Here's one review of the i3: http://bmwi3.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-la-auto-show-driving-impressions.html

Interesting data in this report. Scroll down the page and check out the pdf's on Leaf and Volt daily useage including average distance driven per day, number of charging events per day etc. It would be interesting to see how we compare. http://avt.inl.gov/evproject.shtml

Temperature dropping, efficiency too. 39 this morning, below 40 the next couple of mornings (*I grew up in the Northeast so I know that 40 degrees is not really cold). I got my EV in May this year and I’m waiting to see how much the weather will impact efficiency. For comparison, here’s the...

Not a surprise. The industry really is going to try to kill the EV. This carbon, I mean hydrogen, fuel cell car will come with unlimited hydrogen fuel. http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/20/2015-hyundai-tuscon-fuel-cell-la-2013/

http://www.pecanstreet.org/2013/11/most-of-the-worlds-solar-panels-are-facing-the-wrong-direction/