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    How many actual Bolt owners on this forum?

    I got me a cajun read loaded with 2600 miles on it, packed to the gills with car seats and screaming girls, 7 days a week. Got it in early January, it spent two weeks in the shop for a blown AC compressor, then went and drove it 512 miles in to the desert the day after I got it back. Smooth as...
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    Can you lease the battery pack?

    Yeah probably not. And who really knows how long these packs are going to last. They put crappy batteries in the LEAF back in the day, but they learned, and they're air cooled too. I drove the wheels off a Spark EV and didn't notice a ripple in capacity loss. My feeling is that this whole thing...
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    Battery conditioning after charging

    My rate ends up being around 23 kwh per hundred miles, but I'm lucky if my average speed is around 20 mph - That's one depressing feature on the Bolt - It shows just how bad traffic is here in Los Angeles. Literally. 20 MPH average over the month. At least I only drive 8 miles to work. Another...
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    Are Electric Cars Really Green? PragerU PragerU

    I think the actual point here is that people in the midwest should be getting shamed for opening their refrigerators too often.
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    EVgo DC chargers were horrible up until the beginning of 2018. They're still not perfect, but improvement is being made.

    I don't know if this has been addressed yet, but a big problem with charging spots getting ICEd is that they put EV chargers in really great VIP movie star kind of parking spots in lots. One hand says "Well, we want to encourage people to drive EVs so we're going to give them perks" and that's...
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    Anyone Get their overnight charge up to 300 Miles without gimmicks?

    Heh, the gimmick is you have good driving habits and your recent miles per kWh are very high... at least 4.7, probably closer to 5. So no, I drive like a dick and crank the AC. I have no such range :D
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    Disabiling OnStar

    I agree with everybody that OnStar is a poor value (money spent for the benefits you get) and I also agree that it's a major privacy concern. On the tiny other hand, after 3 months, the OnStar app still works, so you can remote start your car, check it's range and charge status, etc over the...
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    Problems, Bugs, Weird Stuff, Glitches, Concerns Here

    Center LCD console completely crashed. Nothing. No touch, no reaction,. No graphics updates, none of the car's regular climate control, energy settings, nothing. The graphics we're slightly corrupted, and it stayed on even after I disconnected the phone, shut the car OFF and exited the vehicle...
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    Battery Management

    The Volt has a bazillion PIDs that don't apply to a purely electric vehicle. Does anybody here want to start a Google Sheets with all of the Bolt applicable PIDs? When I did the generic dump-to-Torque of all the Volt PIDs, I think Torque went in to slow Slow SLOW reading all the non-applicable...
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    Radio Issues

    That's what I hear, from reliable sources. - and it makes sense. Imagine broadcasting every deauth code of every receiver in perpetuity. Pretty soon that's all your satellite would be doing. Of course, I'd only be interested in doing this for academic purposes. and probably won't even be...
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    Chargepoint and EVGo chargers

    Do tell about your Shorepower experience? What charger do you use for your portable escapades? And when is somebody going to make a portable single phase CCS charger that isn't a terrifying plastic box on Alibaba? A 14-50 should be good for 11 KW of single phase in theory... No way I'd trust...
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    Chargepoint and EVGo chargers

    I wonder if we might spin this thread off in to a battery chemistry conversation? The Spark EV used some nano-phosphate chemistry, which might be better suited to higher charge currents... and for a pack that's a third of the size, it sure did gulp down the power. I figured that the Bolt would...
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    Chargepoint and EVGo chargers

    A major difference we're learning about between long and short distance vehicles is the duration of this so called "top-off" - With the Bolt it seems like the "trickle charge top-off" starts to happen at around 50% state of charge. This really, really changes the fast charging picture. At some...
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    Radio Issues

    So here's what you do... Find the XM antenna and UNPLUG IT. Leave it unplugged for like.... 9 months, then plug it back in again. You will then have XM forever. Of course, your phone will always have better music whenever you want it, but if you really wanted...
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    EVgo DC chargers were horrible up until the beginning of 2018. They're still not perfect, but improvement is being made.

    Possible but unlikely. As far as I know, the Tesla uses a CAN bus to communicate with it's superchargers, and so does CHADEMO. CCS uses Green PHY / powerline communication, which is a different beast with a different "physical layer" a whole TCP/IP stack and all the accompanying BS...
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    How to see charge rate

    I agree - The problem is that the Homeplug standards are a disaster of license restrictions, etc. SUPPOSEDLY the spec went out as an open standard late last year, but no hint of actual documents being released, plus Broadcom is involved, and in that world, nobody wants to talk to you unless...
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    How to see charge rate

    Because CCS isn't a regular "J" plug. When using CCS, it takes the J1772's "pilot" pin and instead runs an implementation of powerline ethernet over it (green PHY or some BS) and THAT'S how the station communicates. I'm not sure you can run PHY over the pilot while using it as a pilot. Maybe you...
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    Strange Sound

    We're actually interested in learning what exactly is causing the weird sound when we press P - I have noticed it a few times, and this morning, I was in R with the car pointed slightly nose-up-hill. I *believe* I was completely stopped. I pressed P and it growled at me!! I tried to reproduce...
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    How to see charge rate

    That's weird that the car stopped charging - I sit there in the vehicle sometimes, climate control running, radio on and charging away on DC. Maybe the fast charger is set up to read the state of the ignition and stop? Never had this problem however, and the standard J1772 doesn't have the means...
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    Parking car at airport

    I'm actually not so sure, at least not on the Spark EV. Despite what the manual may or may not say, when I'd leave the car parked at work on horrible hot days and not plugged in, I would get back in the car, and the battery usage pie chart would show a small percentage of battery "conditioning"...
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