Recent content by Benjamin Nead

Splendid, guys. Much appreciated for all the info. I don't have a timeline on this project and it might not happen until after the new year. But now I have a good basic plan.

We have, Joe? The "topic" (which you already changed once) was, as far as I can see, safely running an AC device, such as an audio power amplifier, off of the vehicle's electrical system. A full discussion on this topic shouldn't be limited to just the accessory socket (ie: what used to be...

Thanks for the link to PowerWerx, PV1. I knew of the Anderson connectors (past adventures in the model airplane world and with the DYIers in our EV club,) but not where to get everything under one roof. The i-MiEV's accessory battery is 32Ah at a nominal 12V, so that's around 384W. The 45W...

Thanks, all, for replies on this and, yes, making this a specific new topic is a good idea. My reply is late in coming, since the Forum's software didn't allow me to log on to reply until I reset my password (an artifact of the upgrade, perhaps.) I've heard lots of bad things regarding the use...

It's been a month of so since I last posted here: a busy time of the year for me. Wow! I like the revamped look of the My i-MiEV Forum! Anyway, here's why I'm posting today . . . I'm contemplating the purchase of a small pure sign wave inverter: something I can plug into the car's cigarette...

That "shared driveway" analogy is, as best, spurious. The idea that homeowners with their own grid tied PV are the equivalent of parking space interlopers is so wrong, it's hard to parse such observations with a straight face. If a solar homeowner is grid tied and the utility is buying a kW of...

Our movie presentation and follow-on panel discussion on Saturday (see earlier post, above) wasn't very well attended. But, when we placed our cars at the nighttime street fair later that day, we had lots of people coming up to us the learn more about EVs. Nice turnout there. But "the big...

You really have to wonder some days if the best thing that could possibly happen to the i-MiEV is for Mitsubishi to sell off all the tooling and spare parts for it, then have someone else manufacture/market it. :oops: Maybe everyone here on the My i-MiEV Forum should chip in a few dollars...

Hi folks . . . Here's another interesting electric car that might or might not ever come to fruition. It's called the Sono Scion. No, not the Japanese film director (I'm not familiar with his work, but when I typed."sono sion" into Google, it flipped the order of the words and he was the...

TPMS saves me again. The indicator light was on when I was making my short commute to work yesterday morning. A quick visual inspection after I parked didn't show any of the tires under-inflated. 7 hours later, after work and getting back to my parked car, the rear drivers-side one looked a bit...

Well, either the i-MiEV is finally getting a bit of consumer love, or another municipality has made a bulk purchase (which explained most of the 20 that were sold in July.)

I suppose I can take the blame in suggesting that the Zoe could be rebranded and made into a replacement for the existing i-MiEV for the US. It's probably not going to happen, but here are some things to consider, even if it was . . . Why is it automatically assumed that the charging...

** First, a request to the moderators: Perhaps this topic thread could be re-titled with a “2016” after “National Drive Electric Week” and moved into the “News” section? It might get more notice there. Yes to this. Several weeks before it occurred, I suddenly found myself acting as Tucson...

Done! . . . https://autoblopnik.com/?s=tesla+4 :lol:

Yes, agreeing to what wmcbrine is saying . . . Anything that parent company Nissan would be re-badging as a Mitsubishi to be sold in North America will have all the electrical/mechanical protocol typically found here (J1772 for L1/L2, CHAdeMO for L3) and, of course, left-hand drive. No EV in...