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Slight correction. Its not the dealer making money on the lease, its the financing company (BMW FS, most likely). The captive financing companies (GMAC, Ford Credit, BMW FS, etc.) are typically the most profitable portions of an automaker, as their "product" is cash, and they make a lot of...

The behavior is inexcusable, but discounts vary widely based on where you are. In SoCal, its possible to get relatively large discounts. If you don't live on the coasts or Atlanta, the discounts are smaller.

There is a ton of confusion around this, in particular since the term "pre-condition" is overloaded with 2 meanings. The 2 functions that are in discussion are heating/cooling the cabin and heating/cooling the battery. The only way to heat/cool the battery is to have a departure time set...

I agree (and the statistics back it up) that most people don't need 200 miles, certainly not for a daily driver. The oft-quoted figure is 40 miles will cover over 80% of the populations daily commute need. But virtually everyone (this is my opinion) occasionally needs to go beyond the 40-50...

Nicolai - a better use case is if you want to take a trip of maybe 70 miles, with the last part significantly up-hill. If you reach the bottom of the hill with a very low SOC (eg. having run on full battery), the REx doesn't have enough power to both keep you going at speed and keep the battery...

Check out quickchargepower.com I think they have something that will plug into virtually anything and adapt correctly (you just have to buy the correct plugs). I think their stuff is a bit pricey, but a lot of folks seem to swear by them. Getting 16 amps on 220v continuous will cut down the...

Disagree slightly with previous post. I think the killer combination is ~150 mile range (200 would be better) plus easy to access fast chargers. In other words, the Tesla model. The only fault in the Tesla model today is that the car can only be purchased by the upper 1% (maybe 5%). A $30K or...

Just to reiterate what others have said: - Having a home level 2 EVSE greatly increases flexibility, as you are never more than 3.5 hours from a full charge, and most times far less than that (its pretty rare to pull into your garage with an empty battery) - The brand of EVSE makes no...

Not sure what is standard in the UK, but in the US, the tire inflator that comes with the car can be easily used without the sealant tank. I've used mine 2 or 3 times to adjust tire pressures to account for the wild temp swings that we have. I just plugged it into the 12v connector in the...

I get the range to show in 3D mode. I'll have to check the next time I'm in the car what options I have marked, but it shows in both 2D and 3D. We get very funny looking range shapes with the mountains around here. I'll try to snap a picture.

1 mile = 1.6 km, 1 km = .62 mile

If my math is right, 10.1 kWh/100 KM is the equivalent of .1692 kWh/1 mile, or 6.13 mi/kWh. This translates to a range of 115 miles (using 18.8 kWh capacity) Still mighty impressive.

Deals vary greatly based on geography. When I was shopping for mine (in CO), none of the 4 dealers in Colorado nor the dealer in Santa Fe, NM had much inventory and prices were at least $3K above what people in CA were reporting. Its possible to go out of state, but in my case, out of state...

If it gets too hot, then the batteries need to be cooled down. But cooling takes far less power than heating. Not sure of the actual ratio, but I'd guess heating takes on the order of 3-4x the power of cooling.

We get quite large temp swings in CO, sometimes as much as 40F degrees in a single day. I've noticed that when its cold (e.g. < 35 F), the highest economy I can achieve is 3.7 or 3.8 mi/kWh during a trip. The last couple of days its been nearly 70F and my economy has been registering at...

batteries will only be warmed up (pre-conditioned) if: - you have departure time set - you have pre-conditioning turned on - you are plugged into a level 2 charger No way to pre-condition the batteries and not get the cabin to heat up (it heats to 72, you can't control the temp) No way to get...

Anything for those of us that aren't coasters?

The conclusion I came to in trying to figure out lease/buy/owner's choice/steal was to reduce everything to a cost/mile. In other words, if you lease for 2 years and end up driving, say 21K miles, what is your actual cost/mile (e.g.total lease cost divided by number of miles driven). Note that...

I've been trying to keep track pretty closely as to what the increase in my electricity bill is for the i3. Near as I can figure, I used an extra 220kWh in December, which translates to ~$25 ($0.105/kWh in the winter in CO). That was to travel ~900 miles in the car. I'm not sure what my total...

I believe you have to be in "expert" mode to make the connection. Along the left side of the application there are a a number of buttons. Choose Expert Mode (it might be defaulting to Comfort Mode).