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Also out of luck if you happen to live in Edmonton. Every other Canadian city over 1/4 of the size of Edmonton has or will soon have a Petro-Canada DCFC within 100 km, but not us.

I also have a manufactured in May, service date in September 2016 SL. 7 QC and about 1600 L1/L2 (lots of use of timers). The car spent its first two years near Seattle and is now in Edmonton, so very little exposure to high temperatures - it spent less than 24 hours at 6 bars last summer. It...

I would have thought a car that size could do better than 200 km with 35 kWh. The Ioniq could do that with 28 kWh.

The Leaf is hardly a discount car, but a discount car is exactly where I wish Nissan would go. The luxury EV market is getting awfully crowded - Tesla, Jaguar, Audi, Porche, and even Ford are competing for the small pool of buyers willing to spend over $50k on a car. Some of the Leaf's...

I also don't understand why GM has never tried to sell a "Voltequinox", and I agree about the issues with the Outlander. Another Outlander problem I have seen in reviews from Europe (where the tow rating is 1500 kg) relates to the nature of the Mitsubishi hybrid drivetrain - it can operate in...

5 seconds is probably a bit longer than necessary, but a one second cycle time would be too fast for many people to reliably choose the option they wanted. The cycle time may need to get longer if there is any processing or other lag time inherent in the implementation though.

If the SOC or capacity bars are to be used as indicators, it makes sense to stick with the corresponding charge levels - 100, 92, 83, 75, 67, 58, 50. If settings are cycled by holding down a button, every additional setting will add about 5 seconds to the loop. There is thus a trade off...

I suppose if implementing multiple charge level settings and clear indications is not significantly more difficult than just an 80% setting it would make sense to have settings down to 50%.

The first generation Leaf was kind of goofy looking, but so is the Kia Soul. Appearance wise, I'd take the 2018-19 Leaf over either of them.

I can see how the lower settings could be more useful on the 40 and 62 kWh cars. I couldn't see using anything below about 75% on a 24 or 30 kWh car though, unless I wasn't going to be driving it for a week or more.

Or you could just use the next bar down for a 58% setting. I'm not sure why you would want to charge a car that gets used regularly to less than 2/3 though. You are significantly reducing your margin for unexpected trips, and there isn't much additional improvement to battery life to be made...

If a single fuel bar can be illuminated or flashed as an indicator, it might make sense to have 100%, 92%, 83%, 75% and 67% charge settings that could be toggled through.

Not quite to themselves, there is the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV as well.

A display to indicate which mode has been chosen would be very helpful if the mode is toggled by a button press. Maybe have the top SOC indicator bar flash a few times when 100% is selected, and the 9th bar flash a few times when 80% is selected? If a display is difficult to implement, the...

From Toyota Canada's press release: https://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/about/news/toyota-revs-up-lineup-with-new-302-horsepower-rav4-prime That works out to about 14 kWh useable, and likely over 15 kWh nominal. Over 15 kWh would qualify it for the full $5000 EV incentive in Canada (provided...

Yes, the Metro definitely needed the manual transmission. Not sure why anyone bought the Metro with the automatic when it added 15% to the price of the car and completely took away the fun factor. As for safety, my Metro met an untimely end when I took a corner too fast and slid off the road...

A little more research suggests that the limit is 1 hour or a 50% duty cycle for loads under 225 A, at least in Canada anyways: That does make it less useful. An extra 4 A over 3 hours is 10% on a 30 kWh car, but only 3% if the boost is limited to 1 hour.

The tow rating will be a big deal for me. If they stay with the 680 kg of the current RAV 4 hybrid, it's just another oversized Volt. If they give us the full 1580 kg that some of the ICE RAV4s are rated for, it might replace my Outback one day. I thought the Metro engine was 55 hp, not 69...

Since an EVSE is considered a continuous load, electrical code compliance limits it to 80% of the nominal rating of the branch circuit it is connected to. The definition of "continuous" appears to be three hours or more, so it should be acceptable to build an EVSE that will feed the car 100% of...

Fortunately modern iridium spark plugs that last for 150,000 km or more have made changing spark plugs something that usually only needs to be done once or twice in the life of the vehicle. A PHEV with a decent EV range allowing it to only runs its ICE occasionally might never need its plugs...