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For comparison (I'm in CO), I had a 40 amp circuit added to my exisiting panel, conduit two stories up the side of the house, ~130 ft. of wiring run through the attic to garage, shut off in garage and EVSE installed for $780. No permit, work done by a master electrician.

Yes, meant T-Mobile, not Verizon. My bad

Rather that categorically say its AT&T, I'd guess that its a 3G GSM network that uses whatever GSM signals/towers that it can. Historically, AT&T and Verizon were the 2 big GSM networks in the US, with a number of regional networks supporting them with inter-operability agreements. I think the...

I'd tend to agree, the cost/hassle of retrofitting would push me towards a different solution. The HK option adds a bunch of speakers, all with attendant cutouts and wiring, impacting maybe a dozen interior panels. I think you'd be better off going to an independent car audio place and getting...

Yeah, the biggest problem with ACC that I've found is crusing along at 45-55 mph on a 2-lane and either having a red-light ahead or a car stopped at the red light. You have to intervene in either case. With the car stopped in front scenario, the ACC doesn't detect it far enough in advance to...

Copied from file in the Facebook group, details published by Dean Upton Hidden Service Menu on Instrument Cluster By Dean Upton on Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 7:30pm To enter the menu, hold down the trip meter button on the side of the instrument cluster screen for 10 seconds. From then on...

March 2016 is when Tesla is expected to release the first design models of the Model 3, not the production date. We've seen the Model X design models for well over a year and production is still at least a few months away. While I greatly admire Tesla, they are finding out that building a new...

Seems really high to me, but CA installation rates are probably high. I had mine installed by a licensed electrician (without a permit) for $780. Included the new 40 amp breaker, > 120 ft. of wiring run from box up the side of house (in new conduit) to attic, through the attic to the garage...

Something else to try (took me quite a while to figure this out) is to save select stations as "favorites" (I forget the actual term in iDrive). This is done by pressing the iDrive controller when you are using it to scroll through a list of stations to listen to. Once you have some...

In my opinion, you should buy the car. Here's my logic: The $29K residual seems like a solid number at this point - Take the MSRP minus the incentives/tax breaks and then reduce the price by 1% per month thereafter. This is a pretty standard formula and is what Tesla is using to calculate...

Someone earlier mentioned that simply looking at the iRemote app will tell you if the car is charging. On the Status screen, if the car is plugged in, a small plug icon will show on the left side of the screen. If the plug is blinking (I think, mine is not plugged in currently), it means the...

Think I read somewhere that many (if not most) commercial circuits end up at 208V rather than 220 or 240. So 208V * 32 Amps equates to the 6.6 kW rating. But efficiency of delivery (probably 85%) makes the output closer to 5.6 kW. I have used these units in a number of locations and I get...

Pull the cup holder straight up. You can remove the ashtray (and probably throw it away). If you look at the slots on the front of the console, you'll see what the tab looks like. Pulling the cup holder up, not forward, will eventually work. A little wiggling helps. Once its free, you can...

What kind of efficiency are you driving at? You can easily find this out by using the trip computer. It shows your mi/kWh. If you reset it after you get a full charge, you will see an average mi/kWh for your travels on that charge (don't have it automatically reset). Assuming the nominal...

Nope. Phone/Entertainment system updates are user installable via the USB port in the car. E-Sys coding is for drive/motor/body controls.

See these links for a very technical, exhaustive analysis of energy used to climb hills. http://bmwi3.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-i3-rex-one-owners-thoughts-on-bevx.html http://bmwi3.blogspot.com/2014/10/sf-bay-to-tahoe-in-i3-rex-what-was.html Prevailing altitude also has to be taken into account...

The cabin always pre-conditions to 72F degrees, whether that requires heat or cooling. You can't adjust that setting. The battery pre-conditioning brings the batteries into the "optimal" operating temperature range. I believe that BMW states the optimal range is 77F to ~100F. There is not an...

Hold State of Charge can only be "activated" (e.g. the check box will be greyed out if it can't be activated) at charge levels below 75%. So you have to have run your battery down a bit to be able to activate the mode. Its normal that there would be a slight delay between activating the mode...

Yes, until you run out of gas, then you get what's in the battery and then when the battery runs out, you get to call BMW roadside assistance.

$6000 if you qualified to get one of the BMW DCFC units. More like $15K-$40K for commercial units. Plus, getting 480V AC power to your house is non-trivial to impossible. DCFC at home is a complete non-starter. With a 32 Amp level 2, you'll see ~3.5 hours to full if you start at empty, but...