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I don't plan to go into manufacturing any time soon, but it only takes about 30 minutes to bodge something like this together on the living room floor. My initial idea/plan was to make a permanent installed version using the same heat tape, I was going to place it on top of aluminum composite...

About $150, all told. The heat trace was about $100, and you can economize with less wattage/shorter cable, cheaper air mattress without built in pump, etc.

I finally got around to needing to make a battery heater device and tested it; in my case it is to warm the cells prior to leaving on longer trips in cold weather, to get the cells up to around ~50F/10C so that parallel operation can be used immediately and the cells can accept and deliver...

The fusible link from the dc-dc converter is 176A, so it's roughly a 2kw converter. Usually a 30 amp self resetting circuit breaker is used on the 12v aux pin on a 7 way RV style trailer connector, that's what I used on mine. Normally I only use 80% of a circuit maximum for long duration loads...

It's finally become cool enough that I need to work on a battery heater for my old gen 2019, the cool temps keep the engine locked out of parallel operation until the battery is reasonably warm, on my last trip yesterday it took about 15 miles of driving to warm the battery enough on a cool, but...

We can of course dispel weight as a significant factor of modern day vehicle energy efficiency, that's elementary and easily observed as the power train selected and aerodynamic factors dominate the real world results for any particular segment or vehicle class across the entire spectrum of road...

The entire pack from newer MY is not direct bolt-in compatible as far as I know, but others have replaced the individual cells in the original pack for increased capacity, @vtechtuning did a 19.5kWh pack inside the OEM case using the OEM BMU/CMUs. There's not much detail I found online, but I...

Ethanol contaminated fuel (most fuel in North America/E10) has a useful life of 3 months, with pure gasoline maintaining most of its low vapor presure volatiles for about 6 months, precisely matching Mitsubishi's newer 90 day clock timer. Keep in mind, the timer is 90 days for 20 liters, so the...

Trip 5: May 2024 Conditions: 45-78F (7.2-25.5C), calm, some rain Drive Mode: Normal 67-74mph (108-119kph) cruise Worst Tank: 31.57 MPGus (7.45 L/100km, 37.91 MPGuk) Best Tank: 37.25 MPGus (6.31 L/100km, 44.74 MPGuk) Overall: 34.02 MPGus (6.91 L/100km, 40.86 MPGuk) , 872.3mi, 25.641gal...

The OP does not have CHAdeMo Fast Charging on their car: I could not find any CHAdeMo stations in the US nearby that were anywhere close to economical to use relative to just buying fuel, probably similar in other countries; these DCFC stations seem to often be priced by the minute, with the...

Both the air cleaner housing 1500A731 and air inlet cover 1500A701 do not seem to cross over to other models, at least not US Mitsubishi models - but a crossover part to another model was my first thought too. It is quite possible that the size of the box and the filter shape was engineered...

I'm in the US we don't have the cordless/socketed public charging so this isn't from direct experience, but what I found is you'd use a type 2 to type 1 cable like this style - https://store.jetcharge.com.au/products/type-2-to-type-1-lead?variant=18459079311419

The car has been tested extensively by the manufacturer and third parties in similar conditions, seems to perform well overall!

Trip 4: April 2024 Conditions: 37-55F (2.8 to 12.8C), 15mph crosswinds departure trip, 10mph headwind last 4 hrs. return trip Drive Mode: Normal, 67-68mph cruise speeds Worst Tank: 29.3 MPGus (8.03 L/100km, 35.19 MPGuk) Best Tank: 39.45 MPGus (5.96 L/100km, 47.38 MPGuk) (~15% electric...

You can use an app like PlugShare to find all the nearby Type 2 connections in Australia, these are different than the DC fast chargers like CHAdeMo, but often they are lower cost or even free in some locations like car parks, rest areas, roadhouse, motels and hotels. You can even take your...

Very nice work! I need to get the MUT-III myself so I can do my own DBCAM and other diagnostics as required, and perhaps eventually do CMU/cell module replacements if/when needed. I already have at least one J2534 VCI cable for other uses, I'd need to test it with the driver that is for sale...

That is the kit for the non-PHEV. This is the PHEV kit: https://www.curtmfg.com/part/56412 The correct kit has the red wire attached to the black box with enough length to attach to the 12V battery. It says "excluding Canadian models" though, I'm not sure why exactly...

It does, as long as the other conditions are met, warm enough battery, high enough speed, etc. But, it also stays in parallel in Normal mode too, as long as those same conditions are met, so either mode works the same for highway use, except Normal is the "easier" default I suppose. What I'm...

I actually bookmarked this post from Trex where he noted that the fuel economy does seem to drop above 5 bars on the Energy Flow display, so I think this is a good thought to keep in mind; probably why Normal mode is ending up as the best case, or near best case highway mode on the drives I've...

Yup, if only there was a simple selection for parallel only mode! Also, it shouldn't have taken so long to determine that Save mode is actually utterly useless on this car, perhaps it only locks out parallel mode on a degraded battery, but at any rate it has no use case I can think of other...