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Finchie

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Hi Folks,

Still loving it, week 4.

Trying to embrace the EV philosophy by not using the ReX (only in emergency). Used it a couple of times - completely justifying it and great to have the “get out of jail for free” card.

However I would like to know how many miles the ReX has been used.

How do I do that ?

Cheers, Finchie
 
It would need to be in "hours of operation" , not mileage, as the Rex doesn't drive the car's wheels, it powers an electric generator to add charge to the car's battery pack, to extend the car's range.

Looking at the service manual for the Rex engine itself, don't see any reference any kind of recorded "running time".
 
You can use iRemote to find out electric miles and subtract that from your odometer reading . From the 'Efficiency' screen , hit 'Statistics' . Slide the bottom area to the 3rd option which will show - All trips : Total electric distance driven (km or mi ) .
 
There is an hour meter in the REx*. I'm not sure how to access it- perhaps through ISTA.

*Page 59 of the W20 engine service manual
 
You can use iRemote to find out electric miles

Wow - cool info - or would be - does not seem to be an option on my iRemote. No choice for statistics on the Efficiency screen. Wonder if the app varies by country??
 
MKH said:
You can use iRemote to find out electric miles

Wow - cool info - or would be - does not seem to be an option on my iRemote. No choice for statistics on the Efficiency screen. Wonder if the app varies by country??

I checked on my limited version iRemote (Canadian Edition) and only see the total kms but not the Rex time.

I have also checked on the newly downloaded connected app and again shows the total kms but no Rex time.

I checked the BMW web connected page as well and still no Rex time.

Perhaps this is stored in the car's menu, I will check to see if it is there somewhere. It certainly would be handy to determine oil change intervals. I thought I saw this info before but can't remember where it was!
 
PBNB said:
I checked on my limited version iRemote (Canadian Edition) and only see the total kms but not the Rex time.

You're not looking for REx time, you're looking for "Total electric distance driven."

On the US iRemote, go to the "Efficiency" screen, then tap "Statistics", then tap the "Electric distance driven (last trip)" square, and the graph on the bottom changes to "All trips: Total electric distance driven". Subtract that from your total actual miles driven on your odometer,

For example, my "Total electric distance driven" is 14,521 (miles,) and my total miles is 15,253. So I can calculate that "distance on REx" is 732. (I know I did about 200 of that just a couple weekends ago, and another 100ish in the first two weekends I had the car, the rest must be from the first owner.)

I cannot find "Total electric distance driven" in the Connected app, only the older iRemote. When I get in my car again after work, I'll check and see if the ODB-II app "BimmerLink" lets me find REx hours directly.
 
Well, found my problem. Assumed ConnectedDrive and iRemote were the same, Seems BMW iRemote has been discontinued, and these "deeper dive" stats are not available in ConnectedDrive (at least not yet) :roll:
 
CharonPDX said:
PBNB said:
I checked on my limited version iRemote (Canadian Edition) and only see the total kms but not the Rex time.

You're not looking for REx time, you're looking for "Total electric distance driven."

On the US iRemote, go to the "Efficiency" screen, then tap "Statistics", then tap the "Electric distance driven (last trip)" square, and the graph on the bottom changes to "All trips: Total electric distance driven". Subtract that from your total actual miles driven on your odometer,

For example, my "Total electric distance driven" is 14,521 (miles,) and my total miles is 15,253. So I can calculate that "distance on REx" is 732. (I know I did about 200 of that just a couple weekends ago, and another 100ish in the first two weekends I had the car, the rest must be from the first owner.)

I cannot find "Total electric distance driven" in the Connected app, only the older iRemote. When I get in my car again after work, I'll check and see if the ODB-II app "BimmerLink" lets me find REx hours directly.

Looks like both apps are needed.

I was able to read mine as 19,956 kms Electric in iRemote, and 21,153 total kms in the connected app, so I have 1,197 kms on Rex. or about 5%
 
Looks like both apps are needed.

Yup, and unfortunately it looks like BMW has removed iRemote from both the Apple App Store, and Google Play. Hopefully future updates to ConnectedDrive will add in the missing stats access for us new owners.
 
The BMW ConnectedDrive web page (at least the US version) also has "Electric distance driven" which seems to be similar to the iRemote one. This is under >Status->EDrive services->Efficiency. However, mine is showing a very low number - I must have reset the values sometime in the past - so don't press on the "Reset vehicle data" - I just confirmed that it does zero out everything (since my data is already useless). Maybe someone who has the iRemote app can check whether this is reporting the same value.
 
TheMK said:
It shows the electric distance driven since you last charged.

That wasn't the case with my page - it was showing 6k miles before I reset it. There is a section "All Trips" which has 4 graphs: Electrical consumption, Regenerative braking energy, Electric distance driven, & Maximum distance driven on one charge. The "Electric distance driven" is what I was talking about. I shows a max value of 104459.7, so someone must have 104k miles with their i3.
 
I can confirm that the connected drive webpage shows total electric miles driven. Oddly I couldn't find total miles on the web page, but the App (on android) shows total as does the car of course.
 
Eureka! :idea:

So, though the ConnectDrive App doesn't show total electric miles driven, the ConnectDrive web page does, under:
Status > eDrive services > Efficiency

Thanks guys!
 
rtanov said:
TheMK said:
It shows the electric distance driven since you last charged.

That wasn't the case with my page - it was showing 6k miles before I reset it. There is a section "All Trips" which has 4 graphs: Electrical consumption, Regenerative braking energy, Electric distance driven, & Maximum distance driven on one charge. The "Electric distance driven" is what I was talking about. I shows a max value of 104459.7, so someone must have 104k miles with their i3.


I'm so sorry, I mistook webpage for app. Thanks! My website definitely shows the data too.
 
BTW, one can get the current battery kappa Max from the ConnectedDrive web page - no need to go into the car hidden menu. I know how to do this in Chrome, not sure about the other browsers. Just open the Developer tools window - from the Chrome menu - More tools > Developer tools. This will open a side window with some source of the current page. If you are in the >"eDrive services" on the web page you will see a var block under servelet/eNavigation like this:

var comp_market = 'US';
var comp_vin = 'WBY1Z4C57EVXXXXXX';
var comp_dcOnly = 'true';
var comp_lat = 'XXX';
var comp_lng = '-XXX';
var comp_soc = '16.930999755859375';
var comp_rangeMap = 'RANGE_POLYGON';
var comp_socMax = '17.14';
var comp_chargingLevelHv = '100';
var comp_vehicleMoving = false;
The battery kappa Max is the socMax value which for my 4 year old REX is showing 17.14.
 
This is interesting and easy to get.

I tried Safari first but no luck looking for page source so I got this from Chrome which is a bit more open source.

I wonder what the difference is between "var comp_soc" and "var comp_socMax"?

var comp_market = 'US';
var comp_vin = 'WBY1Z4C55FZZXXZZ1';
var comp_dcOnly = 'true';
var comp_lat = '94.25294';
var comp_lng = '-211.77712';
var comp_soc = '18.62299919128418';
var comp_rangeMap = 'RANGE_POLYGON';
var comp_socMax = '18.6';
var comp_chargingLevelHv = '100';
var comp_vehicleMoving = false;
 
Thanks for all the comments. The web ConnectedDrive (vs the App) was the perfect solution.

It would have been years before I worked that out.

What a brilliant forum !

Cheers, Finchie
 
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