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In two years (plus) of driving the i-MiEV I have had seven front row off the line contests with other vehicles where it was definitely a two party participation event. How do I know this? Well they were next to me looking and expressing various levels of amusement at my car. The universal hand...

Thank you Sandange! That is helpful. Aerowhatt

Thanks for posting this! useful information for sure. Curious though, as I could not tell by the angles of the video shots etc. How does the width of your trailer stack up with the width of the i-MiEV? Do you perhaps have a straight on pic from the front or rear? Even better . . ...

E-truck Carry your portable antigravity device in the storage box like I do :D Aerowhatt

I agree! A pack should be balanced periodically. Monthly is a good rule of thumb. And since the balancing can't always complete because the highest cell often triggers the end of charging. I think it is a very good practice to do the 100% balance charges in consecutive pairs. Charge to 100%...

People keep bringing up these issues, that lead to questions, that I hadn't thought of (like what is the max charge rate on 120V?). Once the question is in my head, curiosity nags me until I get the answer. Sometimes I wish I could get a curiosityectomy :? Aerowhatt

I have a juice box 40. The old one which has adjustable 120vac amperage (8 to 16). I opened it up and turned it up from 12 amps to the max (which is supposed to be 16amps). Using canion and a kilowatt meter to corroborate it's results. Starting at 50% SOC so there wouldn't be any interference...

I was afraid of that. It's a pretty short road at only 1.3 miles. Wh/km should be able to show up a difference even on a short hop. That's what's nice about my "mostly" descent, it's 27 to 34 miles long depending on the chosen starting point. Sections that I look hard at because of their...

I like to analyze things qualitatively and then quantify it if needed. Why? simply because it is easier. So just as a suggestion, I would tackle evaluating your descent more simply first. Record SOC at the top and the bottom and also record Wh/km at the bottom for each case. Then compare them...

I agree, I think the media all but killed it. Even when an absolutely unbelievable deal came along on our first one. I had a lot of trepidation about it, due largely to not being able to find a single good review. The only reason that I did go ahead and "take a chance" on it was what I had read...

Really glad you missed the deer, and it you, Really weird how something seemingly unrelated can affect your behavior, or timing, saving you a hassle, or catastrophe. Then again if you had just gone your normal 35 mph you might have been well past there when the deer crossed. Just strange how...

The Tesla may work very differently in this (N) vs regen respect. I would be happy to do my best to quantify the Teslsa in this regard. Just loan it to me for 6 months of mountain trips ;) Aerowhatt

Initially I had trouble with my data too because of the relationship of aero drag with speed. That's one reason I kept it to myself and used canion on every permutation of the mountain drives. It goes against our intuition that going faster in (N) could be as or more efficient. It took a lot of...

Well . . . no we can't agree on this. If one can coast down a grade without needing to brake to slow to the speed limit (even if it is 65 mph) then using regen to slow to 30 will not yield any significant regen total at the bottom (if any). It takes a much steeper grade to make it worthwhile...

That's really my point, which seems to be falling on deaf ears, mainly. The I-40 grade is not steep enough to ever see a truck climbing at less than 40 mph. It's a very similar grade to the downhill part of Ricks leg of his trip which JoeS did such a good job of documenting the data on. Such a...

I get what you are saying. And, it does make sense on it's face. Pretty sure I disagree overall though. Unless one is on a steep enough grade that the car just runs away in (N). I went for a drive today too. We had east face snow last night and this morning. I wanted to see how deep and how...

Would be a great idea to secure the battery box to the cargo area using the Child seat anchor under the cargo carpet. Just in case! Aerowhatt

I'm bumping this old thread rather than muddy up Rkarl's route 66 journey thread. But this is inspired by the brief discussion over there about how to descend a hill most efficiently. As a preface I drive to the mountains here four to six times a month. And by mountains I don't mean big hills...

That would be a hard one to quantify! I think that if you are driving correctly for snow and ice conditions (really, really slowly). Then definitely driving in rain would yield less range. One exception perhaps would be deep new snow with no tire tracks to follow. Due to the slow nature of snow...

I drove an old VW on snow quite a bit too. The iMiev is even better on snow and ice IMO. The traction control give you a quasi positraction for the drive wheels. So no more spinning one rear wheel while the other has a better grip. My wife complained about the system when she drove to work on...