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I've seen the % drop when left as well. What happens if you're running on REx (and battery at, say, 5%) and you park up and lose 5%? Does the REx just go mental trying whack charge into the battery or is there some charge state where the REx won't play? Have to say I've not measured the % drop...

This is my first EV and my first BMW and hell will freeze over before I go back to ICE. BMW seem fine as well. The car is superb - exactly suits my needs and is the first car I've actually enjoyed driving. Apart from one glitch, it's been trouble free. However, the glitch was fairly dramatic...

I don't think it can be reset. At least, I've not found a way to do so.

It is cold weather so range will be lower than at other times of the year. That said, my REx seems to predict 64-68 miles at the moment. But the last time I did a long trip I covered 60 motorway miles (faster always saps the battery) and it was predicting 15 remaining. The lowest I've had it...

78 down to 54 certainly seems a lot. Mine's down but I don't know how much as the s/w upgrade changed things a lot (and made forecasts more pessimistic). A 60 mile trip I do on the motorway leaves me with between 8 and 16 miles (depending on mode, use of heating, speed, etc). In the Summer I...

Yeah, it's a bit crap, really. I'm used to never having to use the manual settings but with the i3 you end up peering through a sheet of water if you try that. Is this a BMW thing? It seems manufacturers have their own particular useless function that they perpetuate iteration after iteration...

Worrying. Not a fault I've encountered, fortunately. I did once inflict something similar on myself - pressed the parking brake button instead of eco button while driving along. It tried to slam the anchors on but, I think, was over-ridden by the fact I was accelerating.

@Woodland Hills: I think the BMW training is not bad, really. When I was waiting for UK deliveries (and my order) to start, I happened to be staying in a hotel next to BMW's UK training academy. As well as watching them driving i3s around the place I also got to chat to a couple of the...

Just had BMW on the phone to book my car in for a non-safety recall - inspect the REx spline[1] and do a s/w update. It'll take 3 days! So some fairly major dismantling, I imagine. Asked her about the KLE but she knew nothing about it. Anyone else had this recall? [1] I know nothing about how...

Being a Brit but not being a south paw means that the "handwriting recognition" is useless to me! "Scribble" is the word whenever I've tried it.

When I was running the original early s/w, the preconditioning seemed to do bugger all. A slight warming, at best. Now it heatsoaks the cabin and melts ice. Fantastic. But you do need to remember to turn it off if you're parked off-grid - unless you're happy to have a good few miles of range...

I received my car on the 1st March - and it was still pretty chilly then. A fair few frosty mornings and a couple of drives in cold sleety/snow. But the predicted ranges were higher than they are now - and it seems much warmer. I have a few scribbled notes on some of the early trips: Start...

Where do I find the "max battery capacity" info?

I have a very early i3 which was upgraded in August to version x (how do I find which version I have?) - and the predicted range took a real bashing. However, the *actual* range still seems to be there. Certainly, I did one trip with a predicted 70 mile range and arrived home having driven 80...

I did a similar trip the other day. 69 miles with 21 predicted remaining = 80 miles. *However*, the REx menu showed that I had 31% of battery charge remaining - which would imply 31 miles remaining and 100 miles total. The range predictor was seriously pessimistic throughout the journey. At...

How do you know you need a new KLE (whatever that is)? I may have had a replacement when the car was taken away on a flat bed following total failure (see other thread!). In recap - the car totally died on the road. Nothing worked and it seemed as if the 12v was dead - certainly, jumping...

I posted on another thread that I'd thought the range (predicted, at least) seems reduced since the s/w update. Obviously, I'm not the only one to have noticed this so maybe it's not in my imagination!

Mine was upgraded recently and some settings were lost while others were retained. I've noted a few other changes since the upgrade (but they may be imaginary!) - heating seems much hotter and happy to really blast out - range seems more sensitive to heating (which may be related to previous...

The perennial problem for cyclists - traffic sensors don't detect a bike and after a while you get fed up watching nothing happening and have to blast through on red. I'd briefly wondered of a primarily carbon structured i3 would suffer a similar fate at the lights - but so far it hasn't. Which...

Got car back yesterday - all appears well. The garage said that it was a problem with the cable lock-in mechanism. I'm not so sure if that's accurate - but then I was speaking to the service manager rather than the bloke who'd actually done the work. I pretty much fully expected a few glitches...