Recent content by electronchaser

EVs in the household have grown, was considering if TOU rates make sense. My utility gives me a 16 hour window to charge with 32 amps, so its more than enough time to top off evs in rotation. I use about 1300-1500 kWh per month. main draws A/C and EV charging. I do about 250- 350kWh worth...

hahaha, yes def got updates. I'll leave a few bullet points, and come back with more updates and pictures as some things are hard to explain without a visual. I've actually been really busy. Doing two cars at the same time. so from experience working on a lot of cars, for a lot of years as a...

wouldn't the faster air, with less pressure creating an area of low pressure between the vehicle and road surface, sucking the vehicle to the road. Instead, in its current form it creates turbulence and vortices. What a drag...

All i3's did have ICE. at least per the original design plans. The powertrain and gen unit were designed to be shoehorned into that spot. Cooling was the biggest challenge. better said porting the air to cool down the ICE power plant. BMW just skimped on adding a cover for the BEV models...

hehehe, yes! Definitely no throwing 90mph plexi frisbees! But I do really think the opening was designed to provide cooling to the ICE and associated components. Makes sense that it lets motor noise dissipate. However I've already addressed the area with sound treatment, so hopefully noise is...

Might be more of an issue with older models. Since taking delivery, I've done over 5000miles of dcfc-ing, with a 98% success rate, and the one two errors I got were from the DCFC unit and not the vehicle. Haven't been stranded once, and I discharge the battery a lot. I think if reliability was...

not really a bummer if you can find one more 175 and then use one of the old 155 fronts as an all around spare. But yes a 10mm spacer will keep from contact on full lock of steering wheel. The spacers are highly recommended. After fitting 15mm spacers at each corner I found every aspect of the...

Not sure how many people have gotten under the car to take a look, but my BEV has a rather large triangular cut out below the motor area all the way to the end of the battery pack. I thought it might be for cooling, then remembered our motors are cooled by sealed looped refrigerant. Anyway I...

Makes sense. Larger pack, same charging power. L3 makes sense because I normally don't stop somewhere for long enough to appreciate any range from a L2. I dunno to be honest I can't bring myself to be bothered by degradation or other issues. Or damage. That's on BMW. Ifffff I can get 3000...

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Lots of people ask about battery life, degradation, charge times, etc. both on the forums and in real life. Thought I'd keep track of things for a while and provide some info for current/future owners. Having used 50kW DCFC, for a while, I think its more than enough power and speed for me...

Ya, like Art said, your new i3(congrats) should be fine. Even if you say the previous owner was as abusive as me and did just dcfc-ing, for the entire 22k miles, you shouldn't see more than 2kWh degradation in the pack. (6-10 miles lost) My point is more to bring awareness and hopefully who...

Many Thanks!!!! Awesome info. :D

Can you guys be awesome and upload a quick clip of how it sounds? Been "hearing" about this 2020 feature, I'm super curious what kind of sound BMW chose. THX!

I mentioned I don't brake. These snaps were taken on the 3 different commutes, same destination, early morning runs, all highway, speedo parked at 93 the whole way, then exit, 1 mile to office, with 5 signal lights. Trust me it doesn't work. I've tracked it OCD status, and I get random numbers...