Recent content by kevin1956murray

2012 silver Mitsubishi i-MiEV hatchback. Nice and clean. Drives well, easy to maintain. Range in cold weather is about 33 miles, and in warmer weather likely about 45 miles. So this car would be good for short trips around town. Located in Austin, TX

The "returning to 3kW within the first hour after pause" no longer seems to be working. So I hit up Chargepoint again, only to get the explicit reply below. Your request (#ChargePoint Support) has been updated. 1856005: Low Charging Rate Emily M. (ChargePoint Support) Aug 17, 2020, 5:02 PM...

Chargepoint may have made a babystep in the direction of fixing/avoiding the low charge rate after a MiEV pauses at a shared station. Lately I have noticed that if the car pauses in the first hour or so of charging, it comes back at full 3kW rate. So I am thinking that Chargepoint may have...

And now, the rest of the story on getting a third key, just in case it is needed in an emergency: This morning I called the (good) locksmith shop to ask how they might be able to help. I pointed out that the cut was good, but the programming procedure had not worked, so I did not know if I had...

I just tried programming a 3rd key, but the transponder programming procedure (using the two good keys ) described in the owners manual has not worked. The 'immobilizer indicator' does blink after 10 seconds of the 2nd good key, but then the blank key does not program. Has this procedure...

To avoid the low charge rate after a pause, I have been avoiding 'shared' Chargepoint stations. But this morning I was charging the MiEV at a 'shared' station (the only car there), and remarkably it went above 1.1kW after a pause. The pause was in the beginning of the 'ending taper', which...

I also requested from Kasey at Chargepoint that now that the situation is at least a little bit understood, that maybe they could empower their phone help techs with some sort of remote "restart" command. The idea being that I could track my own sessions, and call Chargepoint Help when my MiEV...

I filed an online request to Mitsubishi, pointing out that Chargepoint seems to not respond well to the MiEV pause, and I asked for a possible update so that charging would return to 3kW even after the pause on shared Chargepoint stations. Below is Mitsubishi's response, which (except for the...

Below is Chargepoint's analysis and response to my request that they fix the shared stations so that my MiEV will return to 3kW after the pause, like it does on no-shared stations. Bottom line: The problem is not fixed. Chargepoint's email to me: Hi Kevin, Thank you for your eagerness to...

I have just realized that the ChargePoint website indicates a "shared" station in the 'more info' popup, by turning a little wishbone icon (lower right of the popup box) blue. The Parmer station shown just below is shared, where as the Nordstrom station screenshot below that is not shared (the...

Below is today's charge, showing what looks like a normal (not shallow) end taper. So I'm thinking my old MiEV is still OK. I am not sure why that end taper was so shallow the other day. It could be because of the throttling of the "shared" line, even though no other car was plugged in. Or...

I too had noticed that Tuesday's taper was quite shallow and long. I know that because I was sitting by the car in Texas heat, waiting for it to finish, in hopes of seeing exactly what the station display would show. I finally gave up. Yesterday's taper looked more like your graph (as I was...

Now that I realize that there are "shared" and "per port" type of dual cord ChargePoint stations, I went today to charge at a "per port" station, to see how the MiEV's charging rate would look as it came out of the pause. It came out well, back to the full 3kW rate. So the low rate after the...

This morning I charged some at home, so that my MiEV would more likely get fully charged while I was on my usual routine at the station that reduces my power during and after the MiEV's pause. The pictures below show the trace, and the displays at the start of charge, and near the end of...

This morning, as I was walking back towards my charging MiEV (about 3 minutes from the car), I could see on the app that it had just gone into the pause. When I got there, I snapped a picture of the station's display during a pause (the first picture below). It showed that the station was...