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In Colorado, we have to pay a $50 (I think) "road tax" for driving an EV. A typical ICE (25 mpg, 12K miles/year) would pay about $100 in gas taxes directly to the state.

@ 20 miles a day, the OUC (level 1) EVSE that comes with the car will charge it back up in ~5 hours (figure 5 miles/hour, slower on the last 10% - maybe 2.5 miles/hour of charging). If you really are only going to be going 20 miles a day, you could get by with the OUC. Just make sure the...

4 - that's showing you your range in comfort and eco pro. a lot of people call that the spider map 5 - check out weathertech

'16s are being manufactured now. Nothing really changed from '14s and '15s except some color changes and differences in "standard" equipment (that you pay for anyway). New batteries won't be available until the '17 model year (no official confirmation on this yet, but '16s are in production so...

And just so there is no confusion on charging outside of your house - if you use PlugShare or any of the other apps, you only have to filter on J1772 to find L2 public charging that will work for your car (the same speed as your home EVSE). Plugshare shows 14 public charging locations in and...

That is an interesting tidbit. I was trying to help another owner with some coding, and while everything worked on my car and a couple others, it would not work on theirs. They did have the smaller screen rather than the larger. That might have been the issue, as the coding params for...

The ~1400 ft. that you have to climb to Jackson will consume ~2kWh of battery. You'll get some of that back on the way home, but its not 100% efficient. Say its 60% efficient for some margin so 1.2 kWh of battery on top of the horizontal distance. A round-trip of 100 miles is certainly beyond...

Only Nissan, Tesla and Chevy have any hope of getting to 200,000 vehicles in the next several years. Perusing the sales figures on InsideEVs, Tesla is ~60K to date, Volt and Leaf are ~85K to date. Volt and Leaf have sold max of 30K units in a year (US only) so far, so even with a big increase...

The last percentages, especially above 95% charge far slower than the percentages "in the middle". Getting back to 100% charge from, say 80%, will take significantly longer than getting from 60% to 80%.

When set to max charging, the car will pull 12 amps x 120 volts for a maximum of 1400 watts. So each hour, you'll add 1.4 kWh to your car. That translates to ~5-6 miles/hour of charging, depending on how you drive. Charging will be slower once the battery gets above 85% or so.

Not to minimize the grid issues, but much of the required power to be delivered to EV's is already present in some form on the grid. While the actual amount is hard to define, an oft-quoted number is that it takes ~6 kWh of electricity to refine a gallon of gas. So for each gallon of gas NOT...

Once split screen is active, push the i-drive controller to the right (assuming US orientation) and then push it in. You'll get a list of content choices for the split screen.

I interpreted the teardown comments on cost as indicating the methodology BMW chose works well up to ~50,000 units, but above that, it gets too expensive. In other words, they chose low startup costs (e.g. no major tooling), but high incremental manufacturing costs. Above 50,000 units, they...

This is the hidden-in-plain-sight Achilles heel of EV's in the US. Long distance travel requires DCFC, and DCFC is simply not a money making proposition from a business sense. A gas pump can bring in $250+/hour in revenue, a DCFC will sit unused if it tried to charge $25/hour. Add competing...

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While I don't have dog in this hunt (CO doesn't have ToU charging available to us), its pretty inexcusable for the low-cost charging to not just work better. I get that there may be quirks, but people have been complaining about low cost charging not working correctly for 18 months now.

A user is reporting over on the Facebook group that he's found out the magic settings to get the car to start in EcoPro mode. Copying here. Thanks should be directed to Brian Lewis on the Facebook group: CODING for ECO PRO default driving mode! Figured it out! After fiddling with all the...

Your REx range changes since all the REx does is produce electricity (pretty much a fixed amount per gallon by design - the engine generally has 2 optimized speeds, one for moderate output and one for max output). The Range is based on how you are consuming electricity, not gas, so your driving...

Annecdotally, the changes include adjusting the charging voltage by a millivolt or two to "unlock" more capacity. This is apparently a normal practice with Li-Ion batteries as they age (according to some literal rocket scientists on the Facebook group who work with Li-Ion batteries in space...

While not nearly as common as KLE failures, I've seen seen other reports of EME failures. Just posted about mine in another thread. Sadly, I'm going to beat your number, as they also replaced all the battery modules in my car (8 x $1700 retail per module). Ouch. Just shy of 8K miles.