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So did mine, but the starting price of a BEV is $43k. When making comparisons against the competition usually the base price is used for all models to keep things relative. Model S can be optioned to $135k, for instance.

I agree with epirali. In 2017 a 200 mi range i3 around a similar price is still compelling, probably more so with REx. No way will it remain compelling for 80 mile range!

This is just as true in winter climates for the reverse reason. :)

My local dealer quoted me $1450 for the full OEM winter wheel set on 427s. The 19" winter tires with TPS costs nearly $1000 and requires a service fee twice a year to swap. Considering I could resell the winter set after my lease, I don't see really a big difference between biannual swapping...

The i3 is $43k not $55k. This article shows the current situation with BEVs in the US. You can see the i3 is on the high end (as expected for BMW) and right inline with the MB B-Class. IMO none of the current crop of BEVs under $80k will be very good used cars by 2017-2018 if range is the...

I'm in Milwaukee. :D Did you see Schaumburg now has a CCS charger?

Yes, there are two separate things: Manual hold - 75% or less Auto hold - 6% Neither is 24%...

Where BEVs will kill ICE is around the 100,000 mile mark. Most seals, gaskets, hoses, fluids are deteriorated by then making long term maintenance very costly. BEVs have none of this stuff to deteriorate. Yes, the battery is an open question but battery costs actually go down over time. I...

I am in favor of a "soft" disable for the ACC where regen doesn't kick in. We don't need regen to alert the driver as a tone and the display could be used instead. The combined effects of sudden dropout AND full regen can be unexpected to the following driver, and though it is true that driver...

It's been documented elsewhere that changing the hold mode set point only changes the little caret on the dash, but does not actually change the behavior of when REx turns on. It will still come on at 6%.

Low quality screen? It's the highest resolution/quality screen I've seen in any car yet. I mean it's no iPad, but to say it's low resolution seems odd. From where the driver sits the resolutions is already high enough that increasing it probably wouldn't be noticeable.

You have coded in office menu and you DO have SMS visible on the i3? Does this happen only when plugged in via USB. I've coded the office menu on mine but haven't seen any message envelopes. I don't plug in my phone though--100% Bluetooth.

Can you buy a car today that *doesnt* have volume control on both the head unit and the steering wheel?

..Unless you have a pre-conditioning schedule enabled, in which case the display shows you the next pre-condition time instead of the charge ETA. A truly baffling decision by BMW considering a schedule by its very definition is something that doesn't vary over time!

Yeah I'm sure it's possible in some cases, but what exactly are those situations? No one knows exactly what causes new accounts to require a phone number or ID and those secret rules are constantly being tweaked. But hey, if someone wants to create a fb account and send me the...

Idaho National Laboratory has a document Steady State Vehicle Charging Fact Sheet that covers the 2014 i3. They've also measured other EVs here. Pretty interesting stuff if you're into stats. You can save a few pennies per charge on L2 vs L1. :mrgreen:

Thanks JeffJ. Through personal experience I think you are missing a step between #3 and #4 where facebook requests a phone number to validate your account. Your phone number is intensely personal is indeed the main way facebook will use to link you to other people (which defeats the entire point...

Fair enough, looks are completely subjective. I don't like them on the R8 either. ;)

epirali, not sure how you can call others trolls and defend a guy going on and on about his poor choice. No one magically took away his backup camera after he bought the car!

I like them all except for the rear door panels. That looks goofy to me like when you see a car with a mismatched painted panel because they pulled it from the junkyard and didn't repaint.