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An anonymous i-MiEV seen in passing, in an article about Joe Manchin: https://wapo.st/3OMJguu Captioned "An electric car charges in May at an Electrify America charging station in Waco, Tex." Third picture from the top. Direct link, in case it works:

I hesitate to post this, with its clickbait title, and much of the content. It's not as bad as the title, and he does say some true things, along with quite a few I take issue with. But, it's out there, so it belongs here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprhox5pwhM Uploaded yesterday.

I'd come to believe I'd imagined it, but here it is, probably the same blue i-MiEV that I saw very near the same spot six years ago (opposite my own white i-MiEV): I was just leaving the parking lot, and this car suddenly appeared, directly behind me. So I turned around and came back to grab...

I'm sure it's not replaceable yet, but I can't keep kidding myself that the decline I'm seeing in my range is only seasonal, or whatever. I was getting in the low 60's when I bought the car, then the 50's; and then today, I drove 45 miles and only had 3 left (supposedly). This with no heating or...

A weird problem has hit my i-MiEV in the last few days -- the shifter makes a kind of "wet" sound. It still works, and the feel isn't really different. It's not consistent, and may even have cleared up today, but it still concerns me.

The "low temperature" chime. Every time it goes off (for the first time in a while), I'm like "Ack! What's wrong with the car?" before I realize "Oh, it's cold outside. Thanks, I knew that."

State Senator Martin Sandoval proposes a $1000 annual tax on EV ownership: https://chargedevs.com/newswire/illinois-proposes-1000-annual-fee-on-evs/ Please let him and other legislators know how you feel about this, especially if you're actually in Illinois.

I don't usually have an issue with the range remaining display*, but it did a couple of amusing things yesterday: 1. On a four-mile trip, I lost ten estimated miles (rather than 8) on the round trip... OK, whatever. But I lost 8 of those on the way out, and only 2 on the way back (same path)...

The charge before last, the graph (as seen in the apps, on iOS and Android) abruptly dropped off after a few minutes, but the charge completely normally, AFAICT (almost a full charge, over five hours). Then, last night, I fully charged the car, and it never showed up in the apps at all -- in...

From InsideEVs.com: https://insideevs.com/next-mitsubishi-miev-rendered-tiny-nissan-ev/ Not quite as cute as the original, IMHO. Kinda looks like a Spark.

I'm having no luck searching for a replacement online, although I figure a broad array of inexact substitutes should work. Temporarily, I'm using duct tape. :D

There's about a 1 in 3 chance that the car pictured in this article (minus the green decals), from 2013, is now mine: Gaithersburg Debuts New Electric Vehicles I found this after I mentioned to someone that my car was previously owned by the City of Gaithersburg (per the salesman), and I...

So, kinda basic, but... any advice for getting the bracket off of the positive terminal? I got the negative line off easily, and loosened the screw on the positive line so it turned left and right, but I couldn't get it to move up and off. I tried prying it up with a screwdriver a bit (saw...

So today, I ran into my first real problem with this car -- it wouldn't charge. I ran it down to 9 miles RR, two bars, intending to do a calibration charge. Plugged it in to my OpenEVSE, and walked away. On a whim, I checked in three hours later, to find it stopped. WTF? I looked closer, and...

That's effectively what this is, but they're doing it in a weird way -- Nissan is partnering with various electrical companies, and offering a $10,000 subsidy to their customers if they buy a new 2017 Leaf. Note that you can also still claim full federal and state tax credits, if applicable...

This is at the Tesla Supercharger a few blocks from my house, that has yet to open, for reasons unknown. (It was supposed to open two months ago.) This started with a tweet by MDVolt. I drove over there today, and it was there again, so presumably it's someone who works there. It's the third...

This is a TV show on the "Pivot" channel, about alternative energy, as it's being used on... islands. Anyway, I've seen an i-MiEV in two episodes now -- Orkney, and Iceland.

Recently, I got a letter from King Mitsubishi, where I bought my i-MiEV (used), offering a deal on a trade-in. "After only a year?" I thought. But OK; I wasn't too surprised by that. Then today, I get a similar letter from Toyota (!) of Bowie. How do they even know about my car? Kinda creepy...

It's literally ten times faster than (the i-MiEV's best) level 2 charging. (It starts out even faster than that, but slows down to below that rate by the end.) I knew that, in principle, but it was really driven home for me today, when I made a special trip just to try it for the first time. I...

I looked at this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/J1772-EVSE-Cord-Cable-Holder-Dock-Hanger-for-EV-Charging-Station-EV-Charger-/181551004903 and I thought, "That's a garden hose holder with a sticker on it." So instead, I bought this: http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?productId=3823845 It works fine.