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Perhaps I can chip in, as someone currently living in Japan. The SCiB version of the i-MiEV is fairly sought after, as looking at the used car market here the "M" version (compared to the base grade/G/X models with a battery chemistry similar/identical to those outside of Japan) which was sold...

@CZeroOwner: Sorry for the late reply - I was away travelling. I'll send over the text files in a PM in a bit. Perhaps unrelated to this problem, I took the car in to a dealer as I have been having problems using certain public chargers. This owner of a 2010 i-MiEV goes into the details in...

So I was able to capture this loss of range using OBDZero. Before turning the car on, the SoC and range remaining show the same as when I parked up. However, after putting the car into "Ready", I can see the SoC drop from 90.5% down to 83.5%, with a consequent drop of 6km of estimated range...

So funnily enough, after getting in the car this morning I found I had recovered a bar since the day before, from 7 bars, 1 below half, to 8. Since my SoH is so low, perhaps the battery management system is just not able to keep up? A perk of owning an i-MiEV here in Japan is that Mitsubishi's...

Thanks for the replies. The weather has been quite mild recently, so no aircon/heater. I'll have to see if I can just sit in the car for a bit and see what exactly is going on using OBDZero when the SoC drops...

So I don't know if this is just a side effect of my very tired battery (24 Ah, or around 50% SoH), but I've found my SoC to be very unstable above 70%. Here's what I'm seeing recently: - Charge to 100% on level 2 (RR @ 80~90km depending on the driving style) - Drive around 10km back home from a...

(Slightly) good news! Running the battery so low can be quite nerve wracking, but I was able to get the SoC to less than 15% - right around here the turtle mark appeared. Going much lower however the heater stopped working and the 12v battery light lit up like before. Hoping this means that more...

It's cherry blossom season in the Tokyo area right now - just happened to find a nice parking space at the local park!

An update: Just finished getting a dealer battery calibration done. Took a little longer than expected as it seems the older models (2009~2011?) require the process to be carried out manually. The result is very interesting though. A very poor SoH of 54.583% with cells at 26.2 Ah (OBDZero...

After about an hour on level 1, the voltages are back to looking fairly normal. I wonder what would cause an issue like this?

Finally got around to running the car down to do a calibration charge. So here's what happened: 3 bars: (!) in car mark appears 2 bar: turtle appears 1 bar: 12v battery mark + (!) in car mark. Won't go to ready. Heating disabled (SoC @ 17%) After that, the battery cooler fan was running...

Thanks. And yes, I've found the actual usable range to be around 60/70km. I do have a regular petrol car for long distance so the short range isn't too much of a problem, but I would like to see what's going on in the last few bars. Here's some screenshots from OBDZero at around 80% SoC...

This is my first post, so hopefully this is the right place! I bought a used 2009 i-MiEV here in Japan a few months ago for around 360,000 yen. The main purpose was to use it as a second car for quick shopping trips etc. Where I bought it, they told me I would be able to get around 100km of...