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So i have a Leviton EVSE that ive had since probably 2013. Recently it started tripping the breaker when charging (after about 45 min). What i see is that the energy supplied goes up (to higher than the charger ever uses) about 11-12KW and then the breaker trips. I was replacing the charger...

I need to pull the car out of some snow, and i want to put it in a mode where i can just pull it with another vehicle and let the wheels free-spin. Is that what happens if you shift it into "N" and leave it on? I know if i turn it off, Park will engage automatically. The car is charged so i...

I discovered on my Rav4ev that the plastic "cover" underneath the motor has come loose (fortuantely at the back, it was dragging on the ground). I duct-taped it up on both sides to get the car home and it stayed up during the drive but I'm wondering if anyone has had a problem with this thing...

I just got a letter (which was mailed August 1st, i dont get mail from that mailbox that often) saying that a particular sales person at Fremont Toyota was looking to buy my 2013 Rav4EV for "a good price" as a tradein. has anyone else gotten a letter like that? I'm not interested in selling it...

So, has anyone done this? I just went to plugshare to plan a trip and i noticed that now it takes me to LA via I-5 and the "evrus" chargers (which i think are 25KW). It looks like there's roughly enough of them to get here (although i havent checked the distances between them yet). So has...

So a deer that was in the process of running into my car, managed to bust off the side mirror while using it to *jump* my car. (which it did, cleanly, this is the only damage, i heard it hit the antenna going across the roof). Pictures here including my "repair" using duct tape. It looks like...

I finished my longest-ever road trip (bay area to Buellton for a campout at an RV park there) and on the way back i stopped by the Raboank station at Atascadero (I saw that another Rav4EV driver had just updated in plugshare that he had a problem there, and since i was int he neighborhood i got...

I found myself behind a Rav EV Generation I vehicle today in Amador County. Turns out the (new) owner was going the same place I was so we took pictures Very cool. Turns out he gets about 75 miles range on his vehicle which he got from reseller in Sacramento. These still have the inductive...

So. I've been doing a little reading around about what's called "V2G" (vehicle to grid) applications. There's a ton of research about "how to use electric cars as buffers for the grid", ie. you charge one during low periods, and if the grid needs power, you discharge them into the grid. So how...

I did today at Tesla Palo Alto. The sales person was amused when i said "well i own half-a-Tesla already" and pointed a the Rav4EV. He knew what one was apparently.

I believe these are the battery modules in our car: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lithium-Ion-Battery-18650-EV-Module-57-Volt-3kWh-Solar-Power-Storage-EV-/252144461952 I think our car would have 14 of these in it: 2 strings of 7 modules in series. (which would be 42KWH @ 399V nominal). When mine...

Now that i'm JDEMO-ized, i think i can get to southern califronia reasonablye ok (It seems like taking highway 99 is the ticket, since there are gaps of CHaDemo charging on I-5). However i cant figure out how to get to Yuma. There seems to be ONE RV park between San Diego and Yuma on I-8 which...

So i was trying to charge last night at a charger in Lodi and the charger would connect, start charging and then a couple seconds later i'd get 3 flashes on both lights over the charge port and it would disconnect. Happened a couple of times. Moving the car to a different charger worked fine...

America's Tire seems to think so (i just ordered new tires...) I ordered btw the Continental CrossContact LX20 ( 225 /65 R17 102T SL BSW) and they included a charge for a "TPMS rebuild kit" (i assume new sensors or something). However i had a tire go completely flat and i never got any kind of...

So, i'm being innundated by telesphone calls to buy an "extended toyota care" policy for my vehicle (like 6 in the last 3 weeks). However i have the Platinum warranty thing from Toyota (75K/8years warranty coverage). Is there any reason to buy the extended toyota care on these vehicles as...

This happened to me for the first time today. I ran completely out of power "no driving power available" (ie. the "end of turtle"). I was on the side of the road when i got there so it was safe but getting the car onto the flatbed tow truck was a problem. I didnt realize when the car is...

Well this vehicle continues to surprise me. I parked at the Daily lot at Sacramento for a 2 day trip to Seattle the last couple days. Since i was on the top deck of the daily lot (the chargers on the lower decks were full), i set the car to get a standard, rather than extended charge. When i...

So i need to take a flight out of Sacramento next week. Has anyone parked there with an EV and charged it? I do this at Oakland all the time at Expresso parking (which will charge your car while you're away, and even has a special rate for EV users, btw). However at Sacramento is there...

So... I had an accident in my "non" electric car this weekend which will likely total the car... (since its 23 years old and has 341K miles on it). So now i'm down to the Rav4EV as my only vehicle (for a while). Is there anyone else out there who has one of these as their only vehicle? I...

Hey, i'm looking to install a ham radio antenna on the Rav4EV and i'm wondering if anyone knows if the tint applied to the rear side windows is metalic (which woudl make that not work well). There arent a lot of places to mount an antenna on a Rav4 without drillign holes (which i dont want to...