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In theory, the car is supposed to ignore your charging window in a few situations: - if the battery state is quite low to prevent cold from damaging them...it's supposed to charge some, than pause - if there's a departure time set and it determines it can't fully charge by then - if the...

The community average power usage is in the 4-miles/Kw range. Sunday, I was sitting in line with the a/c running for maybe 20-minutes. My power usage for that trip was like 1-mile/kw. The range to empty on the i3 is based on the previous 18-miles of travel, so it is anticipating your next...

Some feel that the maximum charging rate will decrease battery life, but with the logic in the car and the liquid cooling, if any, it's not huge. The limitations are more for if the device is on a shared circuit to prevent you from overloading it. Say you were using the included 120-vac EVSE...

The original (34Hp) and the 'larger' one (38Hp?) is still the only real power source when you let the battery get down...when was the last time you drove a 34-38Hp vehicle up a long grade? Maybe never, and if you did (at least in the USA), it was probably a really old VW bug...those couldn't...

The things that seem to show up on these forums are more to do with the fuel system than the engine itself. One mentioned more than once is the fuel pump relay needing to be replaced...the part is cheap, plugs in, and most people can do it themselves if they're at least a little handy. Well...

Do you have the 19" or 20" wheels on the thing? And, if the 19", are the rears wider than the front? FWIW, the size of the tire patch is determined by the air pressure and the weight on the wheels. Tall, narrow tires would have the same contact patch as a wider, shorter one IF the air...

One thing that may be counterintuitive is the fan...on the i3, it's sort of an aggressiveness adjustment, so first thing, move it up a couple of notches.

Different countries weigh their vehicles in different manners...some include a nominal driver. Some weigh it with a full tank, some don't. It may or may not contain oil in the crankcase, and keep in mind that ther REx is over 300# heavier than the BEV. Throw in the OUC, the compressor, maybe...

If you lock the car, they should turn off immediately. If you don't they should turn off the same time when the radio turns off. That seems to be somewhere around 10-15 minutes...haven't actually timed it. I don't know about the newer MY i3's, but on mine, if you hit the start/stop button a...

Have you changed your 12vdc battery? When that starts to go, all sorts of things start to happen. All of the computers run off of the 12vdc system. That would explain the discharge issue.

The status of CCS charging has gotten better on the east coast, but it still can be spotty. What would you do if you got to a unit, it was out of service, or there were already two people ahead of you waiting to use it? It's not like filling up the gas tank where probably 10-minutes for the...

Wireless charging is sort of like wireless charging for a phone...there needs to be a coil mounted on the floor, you drive over it so that the coil mounted under the car's chassis lines up, and it inductively charges the car. IOW, there are no cords to plug in or deal with, just driving the...

Without a location indication in your profile, the answer may differ. Do both EVSEs use a tethered cable? Does anyone else successfully charge at that location? Are you sure that the locking button is coming out fully (there's a switch in that button that must be closed for the car to...

The forged wheels (lighter than cast) used on the i3 and the relatively small tires are easier to balance than the larger, heavier RFT/wheels on my other vehicle, so a good balancer can often work...but, a road force capable balancer takes into account not only the free spinning balance, but how...

Some have swapped the smaller screen for a larger one and were able to buy the screen from China for something in the order of a few hundred pounds. They have described their efforts in various posts if you search. So, it somewhat depends on the model year and the screen you have whether one...

The Nokian R3 is a dedicated winter tire. THe WR series also gets the snowflake/mountain symbol reserved for winter tires, but is also rated as all season (this is very rare in the industry). For best performance, I think the R3 is a better tire than the Bridgestone and the test results on ice...

Depending on the MY, the rear camera may not be included without it. For me, the rear camera is essential as I am quite stiff, and mirrors just aren't enough to safely back up.

Most places just put their pads under the plastic mounts. That can crack or chip the jack mounts. Ideally, they'd have the jack pad adapters that fit inside of them. COSTCO, at least the shop where I live, does not have the top of the line balancing machine. To get the best balance, you may...

Flushing the brake fluid isn't really much of any different on an i3 than it is on another vehicle. You do want to use a power flush rather than the old standby where someone pushes the pedal to the floor while another deals with the bleeder valve...that extra stroke to the end could cause...

The i3 uses a liquid cooled battery compartment, so while in operation, or if you can plug it in, shouldn't be a major issue unlike say a Nissan Leaf, which uses air cooled ones. It's hard to cool the battery when you're parked on a hot asphalt that might be 150-degrees before you park on it...