Recent content by carnut1100

Back in 2013, I was, as usual, making a nuisance of myself by sticking my nose in the Mitsubishi dealer looking at their iMiEV demo. Here in Australia, the 2010 was never sold, about 120 of them were brought out and leased for 3 years to various organisations as a trial, then the 2012 was...

We retained the ownership of my wife's i MiEV after it was hit last yea, intending to use the parts for a conversion. Initial plans were to convert a 1963 Holden EJ, but finding a non rusty one at a reasonable price was proving hard... Next idea was a W168 Mercedes A Class... Sadly, life has...

Dealer demo wrap fitted to Australian demonstrators...

I was stationary as was the car behind me. 4x4 behind that hit the row of stopped cars at around 60 kmh pushing the car behind into me and me into the car in front. A Jeep then hit the Nissan 4x4 to make it a 5 car pile up. No airbags went off, chassis rail bent, quarter panel, boot floor...

Turtle light came on, battery gauge flashing, then as I came up the last hill a couple of hundred metres from home it just lost power and stopped...

Looks like I will be getting to "hack" an imiev shortly... Seems like we will be cutting a deal with insurance that means we retain the wreck, and the plan is to view it as a gift wrapped EV conversion kit.

I've been in an imiev crash myself now.... Rear ended while stopped at a red light. Got a bit of whiplash from it but not too bad. Now I get to find out how hard it is to use imiev salvaged parts in a conversion....

Can do.... Give me a few days though.

I have had two vehicles where the vacuum brake assist has failed...in both cases the car stopped just fine,, but needed a much harder shove on the pedal. One of these cars I drove for several weeks like this. I have also had complete brake failure on three vehicles....where the pedal goes...

I bought a 2010 in late 2013, my wife bought a 2012 in January 2014. I have done over 20,000 km on mine, my wife did over 15,000 on hers before it was squeezed in a five car pile up.... We are working on a deal where we keep the wreck, and the plan is to swap the entire drivetrain into an EJ...

That's me! I have a 2010 and my fiancé has a 2012...when she and others on here were complaining I was thinking what the hell are they so grumpy about? Then I drove my fiancé's one and the difference is HUGE! So...we each have a 2010 headrest on the driver's seat and a 2012 on the passenger seat...

Just the way they do it here.... Power here in Tasmania is around 27c/kWh I don't get off peak where I am... Petrol is around $1.65 per litre right now, but goes up and down a lot. The electricity price is pretty stable.... At my house I have 5kW of solar panels, and when I installed we had...

Well the first full power bill has come in since the purchase of the electric....the bill has gone up by around three weeks worth of petrol, but that covers three months of charging the car.

(1) Range for me has been a best of 120km cruising on relatively flat roads at 70 kmh, and a worst of around 60km which was pushing the car to the limit on winding hilly roads with lights and heater and stereo all on max...on that trip the car was either at the limit of traction, or at max...