It's pretty normal for the voltage to drop 20 even 30 volts under full acceleration vs coasting and to rise at least 10 volts during regeneration, so there are large swings in response to current out/in of the battery, and therefore an ammeter would be misleading. I am not disputing your observatio...

The power meter on the dashboard measures power, not current as far as I know. Where did you get the information that it measures current ? 5kW is enough to drive at a constant 30mph, and the needle will be much higher when driving at 30mph with the heater off than with the car stationary and the h...

Thanks. My estimated calculations were based on a curiosity to get some idea of the impact on driving with the heater on in an extremely cold environment especially city driving where the heater would be a larger percentage of the total energy used. In driving for an hour with the heater fully on re...

Full heater power at full pack voltage would be about 12 Amps, so the needle would go to halfway between the green and the C in ECO. Thanks for the information. For fun while driving home today I was curious at what speed on flat ground would result in the same current. Only a rough estimate but I ...

While defrosting the windshield on my car in my driveway with the heater and fan turned on max I noticed that the ammeter increased to a maximum point half way between the start of the green and the word ECO. You could also see it decreasing as it cycled on and off. I was wondering if anyone had inf...

My least favorite feature is that the driver's seat doesn't slide back far enough for me to exit the car easily.

As I have aged my knees are not happy with bending far enough to easily enter or exit.

If my memory serves me correctly some early adapters were able to move the seat slides further back.

Thanks for your suggestion. Yesterday when the car wouldn't start, I turned the windshield wipers on and they seemed to be perhaps just a little bit slower than normal but not slow enough for me to suspect the 12V battery. The car hadn't been driven for about a week and during that week it was signi...

I was hoping some had suggestions.

One other symptom. Continuous alarm sound.

For what it's worth, I had mine sit through a Toronto winter last year. I did have two issues. 1. The 12 Volt battery went dead and the car wouldn't start. The battery was 5 years old and it became apparent when recharging it that it might benefit by adding water to each cell. A year later, after ad...

Haven't you asked this question before and wasn't it comprehensively answered? http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4161 It depends how the car was driven during the preceding 15 miles. In the city, driving less than 40 mph, I typically get about 70 miles remaining range after a recharge...