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The front turn indicators have to remain incandescent, otherwise the power consumption will be so low for those bulbs that it will trigger an error code that the bulbs are burnt out when they aren't. I leave the front indicators as incandescent because it is much safer to have the rears as...

We have a 2016 Spark with 120 K miles. It was driven for 75 miles a day (round trip) for most of its life (it has never been DCFC even though it has that option) and still shows a range in the high 80s in summer. It was converted to LED lighting all round so that added a little to the range, and...

My wife has a 2016 Spark EV lt-2. She is quite a conservative driver relative to me. Furthermore, she seldom uses the heater/defogger to help with the range, and has averaged 6.0 miles/Kwhr over 120,000 miles in CT. Her round trip commute of ~70 miles/day is 70% highway (but much of the time...

The SparkEV is current the most energy efficient (miles/KWhr) of any EV commercially mass marketed. http://sparkev.blogspot.com/2017/02/sparkev-is-most-efficient-car-in-world.html

I haven't noticed any problems so far, one car has had a full moth of daily use (5 days of commuting, with a 70 mile round trip to work plus a 10 mile round trip to the gym before charging) each work day, and somewhat lower use at the weekend. While the other car has does lots of short ~10 mile...

I'd had, between our two 2016 Spark EVs, 5 bad lead acid batteries in less than 2 months (including one from Amazon). So I made the switch to lithium now for both cars. Here's a link to the latest lithium conversion...

I very recently, 5th August 2024, replaced the 12V battery in my 2016 Chevy Spark EV with a LiLife LiFePO4 battery. The car has been run through 2 charge cycles (from 10 bars down to 3 bars) and so far I have encountered no problems. First I had to relocate the terminals on the battery to the...

The Lithium battery actually weighs less than the original AC Delco lead acid, it is 22 lbs rather than 33 lbs, then also minus the weight of the old battery tray etc., and the car has lost about 15 lbs. I know not much but it all adds up.

I very recently, 5th August 2024, replaced the 12V battery in my 2016 Chevy Spark EV with a LiLife LiFePO4 battery. First I had to relocate the terminals on the battery to the appropriate side (used large flange nuts JB-Welded to the battery, holding screw in brass terminals). I also had to...

Did you solve this problem? A day ago a light (orange) came on the indicate the traction control on my wife's 2016 Chevy Spark EV had an error/wasn't working. The car has 115 K miles on it. I suspect it may be a sensor failure or a lose connection in the wire harness. Any tips would be appreciated.

I went into the dealership for the update with pretty much a full charge too with GOM reading about 100 miles when I got there (104 miles before I left for the dealership) and after the update it was essentially the same (~99 miles). Perhaps they were drag racing your car!!! :D

Just had the software update, need to do a long run sometime soon to see if the capacity appears to have changed. However, the update did something weird to my reported average miles/kwh (this value has never been re-zero since the car was brand new) its jumped from 5.3 to a phantom value of 51.1!

Thanks for the spread sheet. I work as a teacher and during most of the year (except for summer) I drive the car to about 70-85% discharge every work day 72 mile round commute (my wife has a shorter 55 mile commute 50-65% discharge each day). We do Jekyll and Hyde driving (particularly me during...

It would be nice to think that was a real value and that the software de-rates it with time like a HP ink cartridge regardless of its real remaining capacity, and after the update it is actually showing what you really have left. I'll take my car in for the update soon, I have 25 kmiles on a...

Does anyone know if our cars contain a blinker/flasher relay for the turn signal lights? Many web-sites seem to list LED bulb compatible blinker/flasher relays for sale for our cars but I can't seem to find any reference to blinker/flasher relays (or their location) in the owners manual or on...

Sorry, I didn't notice that was just for the tray! Wow that's a lot of $$$$ for a tray!!! Our 2016 had a net cost of much less than 2 trays after federal rebate! On a slightly different but still related topic there are people building aftermarket very flexible controllers that will work with...

I just did a google search with these terms: 'spark ev 2015 traction battery purchase' I own a 2015 and a 2016 There are a few even cheaper ones near the top ($4,450.70). https://www.tascaparts.com/oem-parts/gm-battery-tray-23348215 The 2014 seems harder to find and 3x the price...

I did a very quick search (20 second search) and the first link I got put the replacement price of the 2015-2016 traction battery at about $5k. That's a price I'd consider paying to get another 100K+ EV miles...

Just found this Spark EV advert https://vimeo.com/257796295 I'd somehow not seen this one before.

I was doing the same thing (no heat no defog, I applied the rain-x defog stuff to the glass to help) my commute is 72 miles these days the yellow bars were flashing on one or two occasions during that cold spell.