Recent content by VTbuckeye

I have a two car garage and 3 EVSEs installed, so charging is a non-issue. I don't know if I would own one if I couldn't charge at home. The only gas I ever use is for a snow dog for trail grooming in the winter at local trail network. I take off my coat and immediately wash it when I get home...

For the volt is was one more thing to possibly go wrong, though we only owned it for 6 years so not much actually went wrong with it. I'd rather not fuel up a car. I'd rather not have a noisy vibrating contraption under the hood. My wife's first thought when driving one of our ice cars was...

I drove a Chevy volt. EREV is just a different type of phev. It is a better type compared to the short range phev cars, but it still has a gas engine with all that entails. Will it use the gas generator for heat? This would be to gear the cabin as well as the battery. It would be foolish not to...

That it have been the generator turn on with an extra 10-20 percent battery remaining so that the truck can eat into the buffer while running the generator at maximum output. Sorta like Chevy volt mountain mode. This would allow you to build up the battery soc prior to the long mountain climbs...

By full blown do you mean supercharged/turbo charged forced induction? If so, yes it will likely need to be a full blown inline 4/small v6 engine to maintain output once the battery is depleted. If not for ed induction it will be a V8.

I didn't have my volt that long, but my experience with the volt and Volvo phev is that my use pattern is not good for phev. Great for EV (frequent short drives). I could go 6+months on a 13 gallon tank of gas with a 18 mile electric range phev. This really is not good for it. Then in the winter...

Yes. This. The battery has to be big enough to output power to get a heavy vehicle to 60 in 5ish seconds. So it, battery, inverter, motors will need to be able to output 300-350kW...400 to 470hp. There will need to be a substantial buffer to accommodate towing power needs, unless you want a...

I haven't looked lately, but I vaguely remember something about charging above 30amp as hoeing as 15 amp on car scanner. Maybe it was 40amp showing as 20, ergo at 40 amp the second obc turns on and the reported charging amperage is half of what you are actually receiving from the evse. Maybe I...

I was bummed when I found out that dual charger did not mean a j1772 plug on each fender. It would have been awesome to plug in to two 30amp EVSEs and charge at 60amp. I got over it a little over 3 years ago.

No more zone lighting in the app...I think I remember being able to turn on the lights and control them in the app. It has been a while.

Why am I planning for retirement? Why not just buy fun stuff and use it up? What is the point of it all?

That is what I was thinking. The industry responsible for the damage controls the information and messaging related to the damage...As I was reading it I was thinking this is not an apples to apples comparison. By the time the transportation sector is 90+percent electric, consuming 1100 Terra...

And EVs will be blamed for the high cost of electricity. 5 years ago they were saying the grid couldn't handle the EV load. Data centers will soon be using more power than EVs. In my current searches they say that data centers will consume 10 percent of us energy annually and that a 100 percent...

I have a lectron extension cable. I don't use it often since I installed another evse. I use it to go from the front right corner of one garage bay to reach outside for EV charging when not parked in the garage. It is a 40ft 40 amp cable. The cable is thicker than the cable on the fcsp.

I know that it has been a while, but state of charge Tom had an old charging video of the lightning starting at various states of charge going up to 80. There is a hard limit at 80 percent that drips charging down to under 60kW. If the battery is in the correct temperature range, no matter the...