Mievo
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I know the iMiev, I have been researching it for years. I knew what to expect. I have had mine for two weeks of surprises. It is a '12, used, with 33xxx mi on the odometer. I left the dealership with 14 of 16 bars. Range remaining indicated was 47, the quick charger I was going to leapfrog to was 41 miles away. Staying well within the Eco Grange oftentimes having the needle on the oh I was driving up the interstate at 55 miles an hour well under the speed limit, but keeping close to the other slow cars in the right lane. I made it 25 miles and had to pull over to try and get a little charge I had issues with the charging station and panicked the remaining range indicated after the issues was 8. The charging station after 10 15 or 20 minute intervals would drop to nearly zero; lower power than my cell phone charger will put out. I would wait and watch it and wouldn't wrap it back up after an hour of desperation I plugged in the level 1 on to the public charger, a charge Point Station. This wasn't adding enough fast enough and I didn't want to be out all night so I caved and got it towed the remaining 88miles to home.
Not long after that issue going back and forth to work I got a good feel for the car and how it works how to make the most out of its battery, meager as it is. Until one day; a solid week after getting the car I get home, plug it in to charge for two and a half hours from three or four bars starting. I did not think much of it at that time, but it had charged up to 12 or 13 bars. We (gf and I) set out to get Chinese food from a place that we have not gone to yet; all the others suck. It's a 30 mile round-trip I stick the county roads with a maximum speed of 45 miles per hour. Range remaining was about 40 when we left. It rained hard for 3 minutes I had wipers going and headlights on but upon the rain settling down turn the wipers off left on the parking lights. We could not make it home. We were two and a half miles from home in Turtle mode for two miles and I stopped at a Pep Boys who was kind enough to let me use a 120v outlet on the outside of the building for 15 to 20 minutes. That allowed us to limp home 2 miles, again hitting Turtle mode after the first mile and a half. The charging station at our apartment building is on the charge Point Network, so I can see how much power is being fed at a given time, and for how long. The graph religiously makes a nice V where the power tapers to almost nothing and then Ramps back up. The ramp down rarely lasts longer than 5 minutes. I noticed something odd over and over the car will only accept from nill to full, 12.x something kWh. Additionally it only takes four and a half hours to go from nothing to a full battery on the 240v. I can see you from chargepoint the car has not been modified it's only drawing 3 kilowatt hours at the peak. With internal charging losses accounted for you should only see 75 to 91% efficiency that would tell me that the full charge is anywhere from 9.15 to 11.1 kilowatt hours from nearly zero.
As I type this my car is at a Mitsubishi dealership having testing done and so far all their tests say the car is normal. They're going to check one more thing. I've got a mind to fight this and drag this out to Lemon Law if I have to, but I want to address the forums and ask the veterans; am I wrong?
Not long after that issue going back and forth to work I got a good feel for the car and how it works how to make the most out of its battery, meager as it is. Until one day; a solid week after getting the car I get home, plug it in to charge for two and a half hours from three or four bars starting. I did not think much of it at that time, but it had charged up to 12 or 13 bars. We (gf and I) set out to get Chinese food from a place that we have not gone to yet; all the others suck. It's a 30 mile round-trip I stick the county roads with a maximum speed of 45 miles per hour. Range remaining was about 40 when we left. It rained hard for 3 minutes I had wipers going and headlights on but upon the rain settling down turn the wipers off left on the parking lights. We could not make it home. We were two and a half miles from home in Turtle mode for two miles and I stopped at a Pep Boys who was kind enough to let me use a 120v outlet on the outside of the building for 15 to 20 minutes. That allowed us to limp home 2 miles, again hitting Turtle mode after the first mile and a half. The charging station at our apartment building is on the charge Point Network, so I can see how much power is being fed at a given time, and for how long. The graph religiously makes a nice V where the power tapers to almost nothing and then Ramps back up. The ramp down rarely lasts longer than 5 minutes. I noticed something odd over and over the car will only accept from nill to full, 12.x something kWh. Additionally it only takes four and a half hours to go from nothing to a full battery on the 240v. I can see you from chargepoint the car has not been modified it's only drawing 3 kilowatt hours at the peak. With internal charging losses accounted for you should only see 75 to 91% efficiency that would tell me that the full charge is anywhere from 9.15 to 11.1 kilowatt hours from nearly zero.
As I type this my car is at a Mitsubishi dealership having testing done and so far all their tests say the car is normal. They're going to check one more thing. I've got a mind to fight this and drag this out to Lemon Law if I have to, but I want to address the forums and ask the veterans; am I wrong?
