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I have been turning the car on in my garage and letting the cabin completely heat while I get ready for work. With the L2 still plugged in. The green light will come on for a while but once the cabin is warm it starts flashing again. I leave for work with the battery topped, cabin thoroughly...

Low temps here have been in the mid teens, highs in the mid 30s. Battery capacity has been between 16.8 and 17.1. Cold air is definitely harder to plow through. Traction and handling have been delightful. Side roads still have some packed ice. Freeways and thoroughfares are sandy.

4-5” of snow here now. The Spark EV just grinds it up. Although my wife has special abilities that allow her to consume the battery charge at nearly twice the rate I do, I have had no problems traveling the length of our valley on snow floor with girl level heat selected and returned home with...

It’s December, have the driving conditions changed? Are tire pressure down from cold temperatures? Heater, heated seat use? Winter is a bugger on range. It will cycle out. Try resetting the trip meter. That will reset the average on the trip screen.

Michelin ice x tires on this thing and I rule the road. I have never driven anything this sure-footed.

Idaho power has a bunch of Leafs they drive around town. They are all graphiced up with advertising for the power company. I cringe when I see them. So hideous!

Any worry about fully charging but unplugging in cold weather? I had to move the car for parking lot maintenance right after topping off. Battery conditioning ran on the way home but I didn’t see any issues.

It’s about the same amount of electricity you consume to cook a pot roast in the oven to charge 20 miles.

The commute to work is preheated interior out of a 55 degree garage and roll on the heat as necessary during the 23 mile drive. The drive home is from outside parking topped off from L1 at work, heat as required. Range from full has been 65ish. Last night was a second trip all the way into north...

Today I had some errands to run and long story short, I rolled into my garage in turtle mode with 3-4 miles left. A new low for my Spark. I drove 91 miles today with a bit of L1 charge from work.

My capacity numbers are generally worse when I work the battery hard. There is a rule of battery capacity measurement that the rate of discharge is critical to accurate capacity calculation. The rate per hour is the standard and is referred to as 1C. 21kwh would require putting a 21kw load on...

Thanks for the documentation of this project! I want to do this this year!

Good advice, low maintenance does NOT mean maintenance free!

It was a maximum comfort experiment. Preheated before we left, preheated before we left church, preheated in the parking lot of the grocery store on the way home. Darn near half the power consumed was environmental (heat). It was windy, drizzly, just above freezing; perfect for showing off the...

Oh yeah, the car uses past conditions to guess the range in the future!

Last cap was back to 16.5. Driving the wife to church this morning, heater blasting, recharged at home. 58 miles on the GOM fully charged!

It’s cooling off here. Lows below freezing. Highs in the 40s. Yesterday capacity worked out to 18.5 kwhr which is the highest I recall having seen. Minimum cabin heat with pilot seat heater selected “ON” is yielding 4.0 miles per Kwhr. Mostly freeway; cruise control @62 MPH. I did the recall...

Thank you for the documentation. I think I'll ask Santa for those!

My Spark is back!! I think I’m going to sleep in it tonight. Maybe that’s going to far. Well the work looks great and now we wait to see if the transport company comes through with a check!