When you live in the Kootenays, having an EV truck like the Rivian R1T is about balancing rugged capability with electric efficiency. But once the snow flies, we have to tackle the inevitable question: Where is the best place to put the ski box?
Read More »R1T Efficiency Tests: Ski box on the roof or over the bed? Welcome to another edition where we show all of the costs for our 2014 Nissan Leaf SL electric vehicle (EV) to-date, which is 4.5 years now. This post is one in a series, the rest of which can be found at Cost Info Posts. Note that all costs are in $CDN.
First off, the usual detailed 6 month interval update, then a look at the forecast costs for the Leaf into the future (this edition with new charts), and lastly a surprise!
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Year 4 of ownership has now passed by in my 2014 Nissan Leaf SL electric vehicle (EV). This post is one in a series, the rest of which can be found at Cost Info Posts. Note that all costs are in $CDN.
I’ve included a summary of costs over the 4 years. Further down you will find my usual detailed 6 month interval update, and below that any tidbits of news or information I found interesting from roughly the fall of 2017 to the spring of 2018.
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The Accelerate Kootenays direct current fast charger (DCFC) network is filling in right now during the winter of 2017/2018. In December, Radium and Canal Flats came online, and in the last two weeks, Greenwood, Christina Lake, Castlegar, Salmo and Creston all came online as well (as I write this, Jaffray might be online now too!) That brings the total tally to 8 (or 9?) out of 13 installed so far. I recently had a trip in our 2014 Nissan Leaf (a short range electric vehicle, or EV) that I think will illustrate what the fledgling DCFC network will mean to those of us with (or contemplating buying) short-range EVs. If you want to skip the trip report itself, head right to the big heading of “Conclusions” near the bottom.Read More »Kootenay fast chargers: first trip! (and what they mean to short-range EVs)
Time for another electric vehicle (EV) total cost of ownership (TCO) update for my 2014 Nissan Leaf SL. This is the eighth in a series – the earlier posts can be found at the “Cost Info Posts” page. I’ve now crossed 136,000 km (~85,000 miles) at the time of writing at just over the 3.5 year mark. Note that these costs are all $CDN.
I’ve also included a few bits of news I found of interest from the EV world in the last 6 months down below the cost information.Read More »Cost update – 3.5 years and 135,888 km
Time for another electric vehicle (EV) total cost of ownership (TCO) update for my 2014 Nissan Leaf SL. This is the seventh in a series – the earlier posts can be found at the “Cost Info Posts” page. I’ve now crossed over 122,500 km at this time of writing, of which I had hit about 117,000 km at the 3 year mark 7 weeks ago.
Another ~20,000 km have flown by in the last 6 months and time for another cost update. If you would like to see where we started in this series of posts, they are linked below:
Lucky 27,777km and February 2015 Cumulative Cost Update; Cost update Feb to April 2015; 50,000 km and cost update; Cost update 63,500 km, Dec 2015 and Cost update 77,777 km and 2 years
Phew! I’m going to have to stop listing all of them in each blog post. Moving on…Read More »Cost update – 96,000 km and 2.5 years