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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Charging the LEAF at an Autolib Station - Take 3


Last saturday, with my son, we did charge the LEAF at an Autolib Charging Station in La Defense ...






It is finally plugged in and charging after a few problems with the charging program I forgot to override before plugging in the J1772, so I had to unplug, charge timer off,  and replug


Of course we know that this is forbidden: we are using 2 charging spots here; one to park, and the one upfront because we plug into its charge port



About the Blue color code: it was green before we plugged in, and became Blue right after, so this Blue ALSO means: Third Party EV using the spot, not only spot booked 






Again, this spot configuration is very tight for the LEAF, and it was kind of difficult to get in without touching the charge ports, because we had to climb on a sidewalk to get in ....



A Model S would not fit at all, don't try :-)



I did not touch thanks to the backup camera



First text message from Autolib billing me for 20mn of charge (that is the minimum even if you charge few seconds) :-(



We are charging



thee was a beautiful sky ...







I used to work in this tower in the back







A little shopping for breakers for the DIY ESS Kit #2



I wanted to find the exact same enclosure, small, to fit on the Control Board







Back at the car, as soon as I unplugged I got an text message from Autolib: 83cts for almost and hour, kind of cheap for a 3kW charge :-)



And on their iPhone app, I can now see the invoices for these lats two charges

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Ikea Fast Charging & Swedish Meat Balls Lunch

Last thursday, I went to IKEA for a little shopping and also a DC Fast Charge, few kilometers away from work during lunch break

6 bars / 12 : roughly half state of charge - SOC -

A woman interested in Fast Charging :-)
Actually I got many people looking at me parking on this spot and commenting: "This must be an Electric Car ..." and think it requires this huge Charging Station to fill up ...

CHAdeMO Yazaki Connector in place

Starting the Charge at 55%

Charge begins and it says: Voltage: 390V, Current 90A


Plugged in, Charging, in the sun, I am going in to eat something now !


IKEA's Special: Swedish Meat Balls and French Fries :-) not bad

LEAF Link App says 80% state of Charge is already reach while I am still in the middle of my lunch 


Swedish life style ... gotta love it  !

I went there to get table feet : 4 x 2.5 EUR per piece, a bargain


I know these ... I use one of them for my DIY ESS, the older grey version; Now they are available in Red and White only, but you can still find used older version in grey ...  

Install your ESS in it and put your TV on top !


After getting 4 iron table feet for 10 bucks (EUR), I finally got out of IKEA ...

Charge is over: 98% SOC, it took 60mn, 11.3kWh used

100% charge !


BTW, right next to the DBT Charging Station spot is the Autolib Charging Spot, and a Renault ZOE was parked there, charging, using its own cable

Type 2 / Mennekes connector into the ZOE

Type 3 plug, used only in France ... not for long anymore, Type 2 is now adopted by us too ...
Notice that IKEA / Autolib Charging Stations include the Scooter 220V Regular Outlet, so I could slow charge there too ... if I had the Autolib EV card - 180 EUR / Year, 15 EUR / Month -



The next, I went back there with my son to show him my work location and office building nearby and get some stainless steel wall covers for the kitchen and some Swedish crepes ...
A liitle comment to DBT CEV fast charging station maker: we can not see links between the screen and the buttons when in the dark ... 
Other than that, we got a 80% charge very quickly and a spot right in front of he entrance while raining a lot 




Tuesday, May 29, 2012

LEAF - A full charge in Paris - 4 hours- 7 bars - CARWINGS snaps

Last saturday, we went to a great Japanese suhsi bar in Saint Germain des Prés, parking at this usual charge station on Rue de Rennes, coffee, then some shopping in the neighborhood, with Le Bon Marché, Conran Shop, time for ice-cream in the park with the kids, ...
As the LEAF's state of charge was a bit low, we took our time to fill it up, and below you will see snapshots of  the CARWINGS iPhone App -communicating via Nissan with the car- throughout the afternoon


Free parking

Free charging






After lunch




Coffee

A great Le Corbusier exhibition @ Le Bon Marché

Conran shop


Some ice cream at the park with the kids








Walking back to the car




Leaving our spot after 4 hours of charge


Almost fully charged => 7 bars in 4 hours, not bad @ 10Amps with Nissan's EVSE




in Marais for some shopping

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