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It has been more than 6 years since my i3 lease ended. I wanted to buy my i3, but the residual was hundreds more than BMW dealers were selling similar BEVs at retail. I reluctantly turned in my i3 to the Madison, WI BMW dealer I purchased it from. It sat in their back lot for several months...

My lease on a 2014 i3 BEV will be up in a few months and I wanted to start looking at what the 2017 i3 BEVs had to offer. My local BMW dealer in southern Wisconsin has none in stock, and has not had any i3s for quite some time. No problem, I thought, Chicago is nearby with plenty of BMW...

Last week I got in my i3 and found the battery not completely charged. Odd, but it didn't really bother me. That night when plugging in the light indicator suddenly went flashing red and an error message of "insufficient grid power" was displayed in the i3. Checked the EVSE, all green, no...

Has/is anyone rotating their front and rear tires? Does BMW recommend rotation on the i3?

The February edition of the Electric Automobile Association magazine CurrentEVents has a very interesting article on the i3. The author of the study, Sandy Munro called the i3 "the most significant vehicle since the Model T." The extensive analysis and study started in August 2014 and will be...

With less than 400 miles on my i3 I hit a pothole on Saturday 3/7. Right front tire has a leak in the sidewall and can not be repaired. Rim has a small dent on the inside but should remain serviceable. I had just checked the tires two days before and had adjusted the psi to slightly above the...

Before leasing our i3 I had requested a quote on a Cadillac ELR. MSRP was $80,960 and the selling price was $49,945. Car was new, not a demo. I also qualified for an additional $2,750 in incentives and was putting $2,000 down which reduced the price to $45,195. At that price I was in the...