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Ben Zuckerman
Electric Car Notes: Update on Leaf Ownership after a 6-Week Absence
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Ben Zuckerman
My wife and I recently rented a standard (manual) shift car to drive around Ireland for a week. For decades ... Read more
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman: 18 Month Service
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Ben Zuckerman
The LEAF is a car one "fills up" at home rather than at a gas station.
A few days ago I took my LEAF (to Miller Nissan in the San Fernando Valley part of Los Angeles) for a standard 1.5 year service.
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman: A Nissan LEAF EV After 18 Months
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Ben Zuckerman
I’m in Hawaii now but two weeks from now I’ll be taking the car in for its 1.5 year ... Read more
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman: A Nissan LEAF EV, one year on
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Ben Zuckerman
Our LEAF EV is now one year old. The standard one-year service visit cost us zero dollars; no oil change, no anything. Nissan suggests changing out a passenger cabin air filter after a year, but since we never use the air conditioner this was not done. . .
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 04: Miles per kWh
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Ben Zuckerman
In my first EV posting back in May, I guesstimated that when driven carefully a Nissan LEAF should be ... Read more
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 03: Spare Tire?
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Ben Zuckerman
Should your LEAF have a flat tire, then getting somewhere to have the problem fixed may not be as ... Read more
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 02
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Ben Zuckerman
We have now had our Nissan LEAF EV for a month and things are going smoothly. Everyone we have taken ... Read more
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 01
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Ben Zuckerman
Note: This is the first of a series of guest posts on electric vehicles–EVs. I’ve written about the ... Read more