Good to know. I did check the brake (and other fluid) levels and they're all rather mid. Iirc the previous owner said he didn't replace any fluids except for the motor/transmissions oil. Apparently he had to get the car towed 25m to get over the crest of a hill because the car's computers just shut everything down because of the angle of what little transmission fluid was left.
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Somewhat off-topic: I *think* that's the first I ever heard of any active monitoring of the transmission fluid level by the i-MiEV.
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All taken with good humor ... uh, humour.
Thanks a mil, I'll be doing a service on it soon.
Currently rapid charging it as I type, starting from 10% it peaked at 15kWh, as soon as I returned from a pee and a coffee it was at 9kW at 30% then quickly went to 7kW and 5kW. After 23 minutes the charge ended at 53% only delivering 3.5kWh it's enough for me where I want to go but only just.
I'm rapid charging it for a second time for another 15 min for the sake of it and I'll bail as soon as I see another EV. 5kW continuous so far.
I know the battery is banjaxed but I'm HOPING it's just the cells being cold a well as old.
Update, 60% and the charge speed has crawled to 4kW. There's no type 2 chargers around though. It does replicate my first experience rapid charging the car where I could only muster 60% out of it, but in the dead of night and with way older DC units with very little screen information.
I remember Nikki Gordon of Bloomfield of Transport Evolved saying something about a study finding that moderate rapid charging could "melt" away any of the denitrification crystals that had build up inside the cells. One could only hope....
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and craicAll taken with good humor ... uh, humour.
You’ll get a better idea what’s going on if you look at the individual cell data (‘Cells’ tab in OBDZero) when rapid charging.
It will show both voltage & temperature, the app also keeps a log of various data on your device..
I should do that but tbh I should from now on refrain from using the OBD unless there's an actual fault, I'm using a +5 year old Cheapo-OBD bluetooth reader and a number of users on this forum had advised against it. Not to mention any parasitic draw.
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Last night I had ample range after a 10 minute Rapid charge (the 4th today) before getting home., charging speeds have definitely improved since then. I could have taken the time to look at the cells while DC charging but I wasn't sitting inside and didn't want to hold up the queue any longer once charging ended.
On the last leg I decided to do a Diarrhoea test (full heat, 100-120kmh overtake plus showing up an Audi boyracer lol). I'm stupid and I should know better it's an old car but I wanted to gauge the car's limits/health and I did experience turtle mode at full throttle up a slight hill with full heat but still gently accelerating before pulling off the motorway. It was fine afterwards, I hope. Charged up with 1 bar remaining, resting voltages were 3.76v - 3.52v delta voltage 0.24v, I could only imagine how badly I was pushing that imbalance apart with my mad dash home. I was startled that there was a warning light with a car and exclamation mark, it's gone now after an over night charge so I assume it's the 12 volt battery after multiple DC rapids.
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