LEAF Charging at Autolib Stations - I finally ordered a J1772 extensioncable from Tucsonev.com

After looking for 2 weeks, I finally went back to my first idea and ordered a J1772 Extension Cable, from TucsonEV.com




Made by a person building EVs, attending Jack Rickard's EVCCON, it should be good

It looks like a quality strong build, with good components and these are not cheap: the plug, outlet, cable rated for 30A ...

Measures 22 feet long, 22 x 30cm = 6.6m, perfect from the end of the LEAF to the front charge port, and has the J1772 hole for the padlock (perfect)

I will plug the Autolib J1772 plug into one end and plug the other end into the LEAF charge port, with one padlock on each, nobody is going to unplug me now !  :-)

Here is the invoice


Not cheap, but in Euros it comes to right under 290, and it is about the only spending I had for the LEAF in 2 years of use, so it's OK


Here is the direct: linkhttp://tucsonev.com/J1772Extension.html

Myelifenow ! mentioned by Inside Evs :-)

This morning, I discovered that Inside EVs, one of the best Electric Vehicle blog to me, has mentioned few of my posts and pictures about charging the LEAF at Autolib stations in Paris

LEAF & Autolib Charging - Take 2

Yesterday we did use an Autolib station to park and charge like last week

Plugged in the 220V regular outlet

Blue light on the Charging station lid

Like last time I left my Autilib badge behind the windscreen to show that I am a registered member

Strange thing: Somebody unplugged us while we were shopping ... Not very cool ... It is the first time we are unplugged in two years of using public charging stations