jadnashuanh wrote:Given the nature of how body panels are attached, it may even be possible to give the car a new exterior look as well.

Botox for your i3 does not appeal.

The charging rate is somewhat dependent on the ambient temperatures and the ability of the cooling system to keep things at a safe level, which is not a constant. If so, a non-engineer like me would expect that the sensitivity of charging rate to ambient temperature would reduce once the rate of ch...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/09/12/bmw-lapd-patrol-car/72139634/ Of course the MSM calls the car "puny" when in fact its acceleration and city behavior matches a supercar and is only second to the Tesla P85D. If they think an i3 is puny they should see an Italian Carabinieri golf b...

Idaho National Laboratory is doing detailed studies of long term battery degradation in a wide variety of EVs. http://avt.inl.gov/fsev.shtml They have four BMW I3s in their fleet. So far they have only about 4000 miles logged and see approximately 3% capacity loss (some more, some less). This is ab...

I've also stopped answering yes when asked whether it's a hybrid: for me it's an all-electric car with a small petrol generator for when a charger isn't available. Thankfully I've not yet been asked to vacate a CCS charger by an i3 without a ReX. I wouldn't continue the journey on the ReX if a CCS ...

http://chargebump.com/ - if only more people would register!

If you have set a destination in the satnav the range prediction is significantly lower when motorway is involved.

From what I've read, once you get to 80%, the DCFC ramps down and its no faster (and may even be slower) than a standard L2 charger. There are good reasons why some of the units shut off after 30 minutes, as you are getting zero benefit from DCFC vs L2 after 30 minutes, and likely (if you are start...

I'm pretty sure that if it starts to charge outside the off-peak window because of a low SoC it continues to charge rather than cutting out when a threshold is reached. My understanding was that the SoC below which it ignores off-peak is 30% but your experience would suggest otherwise.

is there somewhere in the menu that tell you total kw/hrs used if so i must have missed it. In the iRemote app you can get the total distance driven on electric under the stats tab. But it isn't completely reliable. I had a longish trip early in my ownership when the BMW servers were down and iRemo...