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Dyndi

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When is something like this going to be available in the California bay area? https://www.muxsan.com/English/index.html

I have also heard about a company in Australia that replaced the old style brick batteries with newer Tesla style LG batteries and added a decent cooling system for about 12K AUD and got 210 miles to a charge.

I'm assuming the software that tracks how full the charge is would also have to be updated.

I love my iMieve. It doesn't have many miles on it, but at 8 years old, it doesn't get more than a 50 mile rage realistically.
 
There have been posts about it here, let me see if I can dig 'em up.... Erm. The thread about the Australian service must have been on another forum, probably AEVA forums: the https://forums.aeva.asn.au/. After searching my history, I found a link to the Aussies who are operating this service: https://www.ozelectricvehicles.com/ Now, when I looked a few months ago, they didn't have any "licensed installers" and now they have a few, mostly in Oz but there is one licensed installer in Hungary, so I guess we can hope for someone on the Left Coast to start. I've thought about writing to inquire myself, but high voltage is kinda out of my usual line (when I'm wielding a soldering iron, I'm typically dealing in milliwatts :D ).

Kolyandex was posting here recently (https://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4989) about success in, um, not 100% on the terminology here, re-flashing the BMS with custom firmware? Anyhow, I watched a video on Youtube with a successful battery upgrade & BMS re-flash.

FWIW we have a used EV dealer up here in Portland, OR who do the Leaf swaps for larger capacity batteries. It's much easier to do this for a Leaf than it would be for our i-MIEVs. If there was a 2nd rev i-MIEV with a larger capacity battery with the exact same form factor, then we'd probably have as easy a time as the Leaf people do.
 
This is the first I've read of a liquid-cooled swap. Do you have a link to a post with more details?

It seems like it would add a lot of complexity. I'm also wondering about DC fast charging since the car in stock form uses AC-chilled air for battery cooling.

Andrew
 
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