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Lacking any serious demand for current as in starting an ICE, you can use a long lasting Lithium Ion battery in the Spark and give away your old Lead Acid monster to someone who cranks an engine every day. They will be forewarned when the Lead Acid battery starts to reach the end of its useful...

Get a 12v Lithium Ion (preferably LFP) battery and be done with it. Unless you have some particular reason to have that heavy Lead Acid thingy under the hood. --

2016 Spark local driver has 38k miles and charges to 68 miles of battery so should be fetching groceries from 20 miles away for a good while. Car was from Portland OR and now up in the Rockies @7400ft where it slips thru the air with ease. Not used for daily commuting so likely never reaches any...

Bolt_EV prices are very low so call every GM dealer within 200 +/- miles to find the best deal. --

Anyone know what happened to this thread?? UHaul.com: part number 24977 - hitch for 2014 & 2015 Chevy Spark EV - wiring kit 1 1/4 inch 200/2000 lb trailer hitch. What's not to like? Has anyone tried this? I will order as soon as I get settled at new location...

I usually pull up about a half dozen used Spark EVs on North American Craigslist using <adhuntr.com>. Since used is as good as new in my own experience with the 2014 why not save $$ and grab a used one? --

> This motor makes 540 Nm (402 ftlbf) of Torque at stall and out to about 2000 rpm. This is not gear- multiplied axle torque, but actual motor shaft torque. [OP] If true this implies the motors are not the same or are current limited for 2015 by the inverter or some other way. --

Are some of these garages acting like 'easy bake ovens'?? Would a BEV actually be better just sitting out in the sun? As a minimum such a garage should have silver sheet metal (or solar panels) on the roof and on the sides exposed to the sun. --

So could this car have been started by jumping the 12v battery? It doesn't seem that they actually tried to do this. By substituting a good battery to enable a startup (and the current requirements of the startup sequence) would that allow the dc-dc converter to kick in to supply enough 12v to...

Charging my 2014 for the first time today I found that the horn will blast when I get out of the car and close the door. Ok, I thought maybe I should not get in the car at all to charge but then realised I need to switch to 12 amps each time from within the car. So how to avoid the horn blasts...

It would seem logical for any primary GM dealership to view a Spark EV owner as a potential Bolt purchaser, thus they would seriously try to please. In my long experience I've concluded that when GM makes a great car that car will prove to be a great car for the owner. Apparently the Volt and...

How is this connected to the Spark? The bike video did not show how he was connecting both chargers to his bike or the RV outlets. --

The Tesla chargers that run on 120v, e.g. the Roadster emergency charge cord, operate with only about 50% efficiency compared to chargers that operate on 240v. So lots of KWHs wasted when you are not using both both legs (phases) of the AC wiring. It seems unlikely that GM's system would be any...