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Hello For the past month or so I've been getting a yellow wrench light "check manual" warning within a few minutes of driving. The car seems to be driving fine, the only thing I've noticed is lowish battery capacity-- in this weather last year I'd get a full range prediction of 100+ miles, now...

Can any of who have had the work done successfully share your dealership name? Better yet, anyone have it done in IL or within 100 miles of Chicago? My 2013 has been at Fox Ford in Chicago for 6 weeks... come to find out they haven't even sent the battery out yet because they don't know where to...

"The faster you drive the shorter your range" doesn't hold when it's really cold (and you're using the cabin heater). Assuming it's cold enough that your heater is pretty much always on, you now have a significant constant draw of something like 6 kW which translates to 100 Wh used by the heater...

My reading of the rebate rules says the $7500 starts to phase out "beginning with the second calendar quarter after the quarter in which at least 200000... have been sold..." So if Tesla hits 200k in Jan 2018, everyone taking delivery before July 2018 still gets a chance at $7500 tax credit, no...

So about a year ago I took my focus to Sears to plug a nail hole in a tire. The guys did the complimentary multipoint inspection and noted at least one rotor (the one on the nailed wheel) had grooving outside of acceptable specs, and they wanted to replace them. I checked it out and sure enough...

28 steady sunny degrees today. I had to make a 73 mile drive so I hit the road without using cabin heating and planned to see how far I'd go before needing to charge and/or warm up. To my surprise I was able to do it without stopping to charge, and was even able to use a little heat on the home...

. Truly I don't mean to get into an argument but I just want to get in my two cents' worth. Referring to climate change as "Al Gore koolaid" suggests all that data was reviewed 10-15 years ago. My understanding of the data then, as a non-scientist with a BA in biology, was very different...

At the risk of getting off topic, are you sure that's true? I understand that coal power plants (and nuclear and older nat gas) aren't generally turned off or even down much over the course of a day. This is why utilities have such low off peak electricity rates- supply can only be brought down...

If that quote is correct, it's pretty ironic that he chose "phones" rather than "computers" in his analogy. That apple came into the phone business from the outside and in what, 1-2 years, left established phone makers like Nokia, Erikson, Blackberry, Motorola shells of their former selves...

I've never seen a red battery on the MFM app or website (almost exclusively use app)-- only blue and yellow. Mine turns yellow whenever estimated range goes under 10 miles, just like it does on the headsup display. Sometimes when it's charging from a low state, it stays yellow even though range...

Thanks guys. I agree Eva, the residential solar today is apples and oranges to what it was even 2 years ago. Panels cost less and generate more, and microinverters are similarly less expensive and proven reliable. Using microinverters and 300W panels, my roof can hold a 6kW array easy, which...

Just wondering if any IL/bordering state residents here have installed a home solar PV system? We are thinking about it, but since grid electric is relatively cheap while the sun isn't quite as generous here, the long payback time makes it less attractive than, say, in CA or HI. IL has had a...

One more thing to consider is that the energy used in Remote Starting the vehicle is not included in your trip meter's kWh tally, so that could also cause it to look like battery capacity is down if you don't take it into account. i know you didn't say whether you used remote start at work, or...

I'd be willing to bet Max's commute traffic is much heavier than jmueller's. Remember that when the heater is running almost constantly, low speed EV driving becomes less efficient than conservative highway driving. Crawling down a jammed, frozen interstate on the way to work today, trying to...

Are you sure your remote start function was set to warm the cabin? Once in awhile I've seen that setting change without a reason. Was your drive very short? If it was a drive that uses up 1.2kWh, I'd guess it was only 5 miles or so - so if it only took 5-10 minutes, maybe it didn't have time to...

I experienced something like this once a few months ago. Driving home from work (~85% battery, no charging at work), every time I came close to a stop, or crept in traffic, the car moved jerkily rather than smoothly. It wasn't dramatic, but different enough to notice. Had nothing to do with...

When I purchased in 12/12, sirius free trial was for 6 months only and included travelink. Maybe you got a different deal? Myfordmobile is supposed to be a 60-mo deal; sync services is supposed to be a 36-mo deal. I haven't really missed Sirius audio nor travelink since June 2013, though I...

I actually have had Go Times work pretty well on L1 in cold weather, with a warm cabin waiting for me in the morning. However to get enough power to warm the cabin, some stored battery power is used up too. Not sure why your Go Time cabin temp doesn't keep its setting. Have you tried setting it...

You are not doing any damage to the car/ to the battery. Cold temperature doesn't affect the life of the battery like hot temperature does. What cold can do is decrease your car's power and decrease your battery's available capacity. But these are instantaneous issues- warm up the battery and...

Wattsup, you misread the post. They used 13.3 kWh on the way up; 17.7 kWh was the total used for round trip- correlating with 92% of battery. They had approximately 5.7 kWh remaining at the turnaround. I don't believe you can calculate regenerated energy from these numbers. All you can say is...