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No, it will not. There is actually a procedure to enable the WiFi (turning on the hazard lights and pressing two buttons on the remote alternately 5 times in a row, 10 button presses total). This causes the vehicle to start sending 802.11 beacon frames every 100ms or so and that's what causes it...

Has anyone figured out what the charging algorithm is for the 12V auxiliary battery? What I've been able to figure out so far: - When connected to EVSE, voltage starts at 14.40V, then drops to 14.30V. Not sure if it drops farther or will eventually float at 13.8V, or if the charger is simply...

Correction, voltage after 2 weeks is around 12.54V, not 12.30V. Turns out, even with all lights in the car off, that display in the instrument cluster draws enough power from the battery that the voltage sags by about 0.14V. I did another test where I shut all of the doors and the hatch and...

Best to put the car in READY mode for at least 15-20 minutes every 2 weeks to allow the system to charge the 12V battery. The 12V battery seems to lose about 0.2V/week and it's best to keep it above 50% SoC, but the system WILL NOT charge the 12V battery if you don't use the WiFi remote control...

I wouldn't do that. I also filled my tank just prior to the lockdown, but seriously, there's a reason for this fuel timer and it's to prevent your ICE from being damaged by bad fuel. Just burn through the fuel, siphon it out if you have another vehicle or machine you can burn that much fuel in...

Well I never thought I would EVER hit this condition but with the pandemic, I'm now at 43 days and have consumed 0 drops of gasoline. It's starting to look possible that I might see this message pop in my car in another 47 days...

This is a main drive battery, with a maximum output of 60 kW and a capacity of 12-14 kWh. It's designed to provide enough energy to drive the car. ICE cars may have trouble starting when it's cold because their batteries are weak. They're designed to only provide enough energy to turn the engine...

You know you don't have to actually fill the tank all the way right? For example, planes only carry enough fuel to reach their destination, plus a small amount for reserve. But they're not going to install a 750 mile tank in a B738 that's usually used for short hops, since that would limit its...

Assuming 240V, single phase electricity, you'd have to be drawing an average of 1358A to consume 326 kWh in one hour. That's literally off the scale in charts indicating ampacity vs. wire gauge size.

Yes, I've been on it. But I did it at around 20-40 mph and I definitely didn't have to floor it.

Yes, but high speed inclines that are monotonically increasing for 8km and gain 500m in elevation over that distance. In Germany, I'd expect such things to exist perhaps in the southern section of the country, near the Alps. Basically, something like the first part (the region marked "1") of...

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2300515,8.1384196,10z/data=!5m1!1e4 This area? I don't really see anything here that compares to the Grapevine. The very highest points of the terrain in this area are no more than 250m high. The steepest section of the Grapevine gains ~500m in altitude over a...

Can you provide some links on Google Maps of where these long 4% to 8% inclines are? Well I've driven up Mount Umunhum, Mount Hamilton, and to Donner Summit in my PHEV. These places have grades of over 6%, but they aren't nearly as demanding on vehicles as the I-5 Grapevine section. The...

CA-152 doesn't have anything nearly as challenging as the Grapevine. I'm not even sure if it has a 6% grade, but if it's that steep in any section, it's only for about maybe half a mile. Furthermore, the section between Gilroy and Casa De Fruta doesn't have traffic that moves at 85-90 mph up the...

You've never driven in California, have you? First of all, the statutory maximum legal speed is 70 mph, not 65, on certain rural roads, which includes I-5 and the Grapevine. CVC Section 22356 http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=22356.&lawCode=VEH...

Actually, this is the best of both worlds: https://www.onspot.com/en-US/ Way better than winter tires, it's as good as chains, when you want it. When you don't want it, you can use your summer tires or all season tires. AND, you don't even have to stop to switch between the two...

That's pretty impressive. But it takes a lot longer to switch tires (even if they're already mounted on separate wheels) than it does to put on and take off chains. I can get chains on all 4 wheels of my vehicle in under 5 minutes fairly easily, and removal is even quicker. And I can count the...

I'll run my tire chains on all 4 wheels against your winter tires any day of the week. https://lacledechain.com/product/alpine-premier/ I don't see winter tires as a very good tradeoff. To really do winter tires well, you'd want to get new wheels and generally narrower tires than the OEM ones...

If conditions are really that bad, forget about winter tires. They'll require everyone to put on chains anyway. In California, there are 3 levels of chain control: R-1: Chains required on the drive axle of all vehicles without M+S tires R-2: Chains required on all vehicles except 4WD/AWD...

Interesting. I always assumed that at around 28 ICE miles on the range meter, it was getting critically low, because that's the point at which the display starts indicating "Total Cruising Range: -- mile", and the computer will automatically kill Charge or Save mode if it's enabled and won't let...