Recent content by donallen

I have a 2014 i3 BEV. My opinion of this car has gone steadily downhill since taking delivery in Jan. 2015. 1. The ride is ridiculously harsh. It reminds me a bit of the Morgan I had over 50 years ago. Ok, it's not as bad as the Morgan, but it's bad. 2. The performance in the snow is awful. I...

Not that simple, I'm afraid. First of all, if I weren't a "forward-thinking type", I wouldn't have bought an i3, would I? Obviously, much of this is personal taste, but I'm talking about mis-use of automation -- automating things that, in my opinion, are better done manually. You might disagree...

I've observed the same symptom. I was driving on a relatively cool day this summer, outside temp in the high 60s. The car was in 'Comfort' mode and the climate system was in 'Auto'. I set the temp to about the outside temperature and turned off the A/C, or at least pressed the A/C button so the...

The CFRP construction has absolutely nothing to do with what we are discussing -- failure of the charging system. We have a LOT of experience with charging batteries, even in high-capacity situations (e.g., UPSes for large computer server farms) and with lithium-ion batteries in particular...

I have a 2014 i3 BEV on which I took delivery last January. The car is now in the shop for the second time in a week, this time to replace the EME, because it won't accept a charge from my Clipper Creek HCS-40 or the 120v charger (both report 'Charging fault', indicating a ground fault). The BMW...

I have had exactly the same problem -- both reflectors broke. There is clearly a design bug in this part. Would anyone like to take a guess on what BMW charges for this $.15 piece of plastic that fails? $40. Each. This is really absurd. I had doubts about buying a BMW because of the reputation...

You may work in a related field, but your post is confusingly sloppy and inaccurate. A watt is NOT a unit of heat, which is energy. A watt is a unit of POWER, which is energy/unit-time, the time-derivative of energy. An i3 battery does not carry "22 kw or 75,000 btus". You are conflating power...