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I see 2 problems with hydrogen. First, the space people complain that they cannot store hydrogen. On the way to mars they loose more than half of their H2 fuel. First thing on mars they have to convert it with local CO2 to methan so they can store it for some time. Second, it needs a lot of...

Hi braineo, just in time to prevent me from answering silly things. We do have a storm and aurora lights. And amplifiers can do funny things if controlled electronically only and not by a power switch. Glad you found it. Cheers Peter and Karin

My record was 144 kilometers of range in summer two years ago. Two days ago I got 142 kilometers and it was around freezing. That is range not kilometers driven. We have been driving some 50 kilometers, half of them uphill and I had forgotten our 2 kW fan and heater in the footwell. We had some...

Against all odds I succeeded putting 10Ah lead-acid and 2.6Ah NiMH in parallel. Charging with the lad-acid charger no longer works but a 12V DC powersupply for CB-radio keeps them happy at a voltage of about 14.2 volts. NiMH alone might do it. They like overcharging for "balancing" just as...

Just for comparing, Mitsu Europe Ruesselsheim (Germany) have a public e8enery CHAdeMO charging. It is not far from the autobahn and it is free. It happened to be almost middle of our trip and back home. The charger can only do 20 kilowatts. Close to the charger we dared meeting the metal with...

Hot and wet wife. As soon as she comes in her side of the car starts fogging. In summer that is no problem, opening the windows a little bit does it. In winter when it is cold and wet outside that turns into desaster. Getting down from the mountains to the Rhine Valley is like hitting a brick...

I actually tried the other way round. I did connect a 10 Ah lead acid and a 2.3 Ah NiMH parallel at the lighter socket. I did get more range. How is that? Somebody with canIon suggests it might be 7% more comparing with and without the aux battery. We have too view numbers to say anything yet...

At the connector for the radio there is (+12V battery), (+12V acc), (+12V light) and (+12V from the radio to the antenna) but no ground. There are two screws fixing the dashboard to a metal rod. Both of them can get you ground. Finding that connector in a shop is another story. PowerPoles are...

Variable frequency controller? You did not feed some music into a pa system (100 volt system like in railway stations?) I guess the controller is a mess and wants to talk crypted CANBUS to the ECU and the ECU wants to talk crypted CANBUS to the BMU in the first place. Feeding the motor from...

Done some more experiments with radio and batteries. There used to be some noises out of the hood that covers the radio. Longwave 150 kHz to some 300 kHz used to be bad and went out when the motor was running. AM band dead. Opening the hood (our radio is mounted into the hood not the...

I have done a little experimenting, part of it accidently. First the battery is connected via two 30A fuses to one fusebox in the front and another one under the dash. It looks the battery is more a consumer than delivering electricity. So the boss is the dc-dc converter with 80 amps. I have...

Ours is from 2010 and we have it for almost two years, two winters at least. No loss in battery detected. We are living on the other side of a hill and did have a long ride on the highway the day before yesterday. 40 kilometers one way mostly down hill spent some 7 kilowatt hours riding behind...

Update promissed. My 12V battery must be some 4 years old by now and I do know from hamradio old batteries cost a lot of energy and store little. Lead Acid is dead. NiMH self discharges faster than you can charge them so Lithium is the only way to go. Cheers Peter and Karin

It is not as tricky as it seems at first sight. I have not yet planned to replace things yet. It may be a good idea to log the CANBUS and to see what messages to spoof when things are missing. I am quite sure I'll have to do that one day because I am planning to drive the i-MiEV for a very long...

It could be your weight? I discovered shifting is no good idea. The car does the same in every gear except it does it differently. Living half way up the other side of a hill I have finally decided to stay in "B" all the time. "D" feels a bit like a "normal" car but our i-MiEV is no normal...

In a world of R2D2, C3PO and i-phones you absolutely must have and i-MiEV or your grandchildren might lose you in a museum. With an i-MiEV nobody will notice if you dont have an i-pad or any other i-somethings. Unable to to guess how to pronounce it - that is cool. I am glad ours has got a...

"Snowwhite" will be two years the end of summer, so two winters, yes. Insulating doors, front lid and back lid did improve radio, heat and outside noise dramatically. It is not frozen today but we used full heat and A/C to keep the windows clean. It does cost energy but not that much and heat...

1 tap up foglight. 2 taps up foglight + backlight 1 tap down backlight off 2 taps down foglight off I am glad it can do everything but the foglights automagically. Cheers Peter and Karin

Half a remedy, try an external battery plugged in via the lighter socket. I have a small power box, 12V, 10A with pump for the wheels, a lamp, a meter and a lighter plug. Never needed but good to know I have it. I actually use it for hamradio. It is needed for jumpstarting only. As soon as the...

Looks fun. A hole new engine compartment except for the motor. Glad we do have a single CANBUS only, except for the CHAdeMO. I am waiting for some Leaf modules to hit the DIY market. 2 of them in series give us some 15V. They used to be some 50 ampere hours when they were new. 4 Modules might...