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It's a very extreme cold weather issue, I really don't see the panic. Wait until the fall if your in the north or east I guess, if you're in the west forget about it IMO. But until it's resolved they can't sell effected inventory so I'm sure they'll sort it out quick enough, anything recently...

A lot of people doubted by the way things have gone over the last 10 years but I really believe there will be replacement/upgrade paths by the time our 10 year old bolts batteries are getting tired, I hope to see denser energy and hopefully faster recharge rates (I know it'd need hardware...

The batteries are, as far as I know, completely recyclable and refurbish-able. The "issues" are with how varying regions across the world control this process.

They're not in the business of replacing expensive components for free, they may not care about you as a person or customer in particular but they certainly give a s**t or two about they're bottom line. That means doing as little free service as possible and avoiding recalls, neither of these...

First of that sucks, sorry to hear. Now it's supposed to be a fairly rare occurrence, it happening relatively quickly to the same car would point toward another issue, like the BMS not balancing correctly and causing cells to fail (wild guess) but since you're dealer doesn't "know" they're just...

Double park and plug your car in next time.

no one outside of the deepest parts of Quebec and newfoundland would be talking "French pint" which is absurd and obviously just an imperial quart. But that aside there's still 2 pints .... imperial and US, tall and short, large and small, full and ..... not full, or whatever the hell you're...

No one aside from perhaps the engineers that designed the system seem to know exactly what's going on with the chemistry and the BMS. The kind of cycling you're talking about, charging hill top most the time and once and a while doing a full charge and also depleting the battery somewhere well...

The dealer I got mine from in BC has 2 L2 charger free to the public and as far as I know they don't discriminate, I saw a fiat plugged in there once. Last I checked they didn't have L3 but they seem eager to jump on the bandwagon. I'm not sure they're accessible after hours.

So I think we're saying the same thing, I just brought it up since the commentor hinted at habitually charging to hill top and if not typically driving long distances then an occasional battery cycle is a good idea even it it's not really" necessary" we don't really know at this point but it...

I agree, I don't think you need to be retired to go abut things that way, I got a ways to go and I prefer to take the odd way or drive in a circle rather than back and forth.

Ya and I don't think anyone argues that but the issue is what we don't know, we don't know how the BMS operates, we don't know how the chemistry reacts to this or that but what we do know is how lithium chemistries typically behave and cycling a battery from high to low or low to high a few...

It's generally excepted that you should charge it up full (100%) and run it down low (not 0 but low) once and a while, not to make a habit of it but like every couple months or a few times a year? To make sure everything is getting a chance to balance properly.

It makes you think twice about what was previously an obvious route, 10-20 extra km may be worth shedding a couple thousand metres in elevation gain. Like the #1 vs #5 or #3 in southern BC.

I absolutely agree I guess my point is that there are plenty of companies outside of north America, hell even inside that'll manufacture there own version of that proprietary connector for pennies a piece and undercut the prices ...... eventually. Hence the term "Cheap Knockoff", you could even...

Ya that's the issue, I felt like I should have tacked on "at a reasonable price" or maybe with a 3d printer ..........

Good report, I'm hoping to do my first long range trip this early summer, May/June from "Mission BC" to "Nakusp BC" and some near by hot springs, it's about a 600km trip with various mountain passes of substantial elevation changes, current plan is to quick charge in Merritt (about 200km) and...

I believe the car has to be "ON" to charge the 12v battery. It notes in several sections of the owners manual that in accessory or service mode electrical devices can drain the 12 volt battery. I don't think running an inverter directly off the battery would be any different.

I don't see why it wouldn't charge at 12 amps with the 240 adapter, are you sure it's not defaulting to 12 amps and not giving the 8 amp option? It should give you double the charge speed in that case but if it's only 240 @ 8 amps the charge time would be more like 1/3 increase so for every...

The "safety features" are built into the EVSE cables, UMC, wall chargers or WHY. The Jdapter or tesla tap are essentially just rerouting the L1, L2/N, Grnd, signal and pilot wires from tesla pin outs to the J1772. I'd build one myself if I could find a female tesla socket.