Fanning?

My wife went off on the heated steering wheel tangent*, absolutely hates the heated seats...:cool:

My pet peeve is the parking sensors that don't tell you you are close to the garage...

No contradiction. If you plug in to charge, the traction battery charges, and since it needs 12V to run the charging systems, the APU charges the 12V battery, but only until the traction battery is...

This is not strictly true, the APM does charge the 12V battery while the traction battery is being charged. So long term storage, even plugged in WILL sometimes result in a dead 12V battery,...

It's just plugged in to activate the ICE'd EVSE, then you plug your _portable_ _240V_ EVSE into the NEMA socket. The extra cables provide an "extension cord" if you can find a parking space close...

I just got a check from Honda for my Civic Hybrid. Something about a class action suit.

We started out with the wife driving the Civic, but now it's a long trip car only and she takes the Volt to...

The one thing I worry about is the Volt emblem on the rear. Both times the dealer has run my car through whatever they use to wash cars, it has had a piece of a brush stuck under the top of the...

Took care of it, if my comments get through moderation...

With that in mind, there is one point you could correct, about the yearly Fuel Maintenance. It does not actually require you to burn "half a tank" but only half of what's IN the tank.

After my...

Because there are still Gen 1 Rav4's on the road? The good maps let you select what type of plug you are looking for, try unselecting SPI.

Our local Water District has a huge solar installation...

I rarely use the radio, and let XM expire, so my Faves are limited to 2 pages, which is one of the choices I have, up to 6 pages, but any smaller number can be set. I set to 2 pages, which saves my...

So you are changing the menu selection every time? I just leave that set to delay charge and have never had a delayed charge fail.
I just press the charge port button before opening the door, the...

In the first link, STFU would be a better handle for the shill, no? That is his purpose after all, going around the web trying to shut up anyone that questions the viability of leaving the oil...

Doesn't the AC get used to dry the air before heating it like a lot of cars do these days? Or does it only do that when the defroster is on? Doing both processes could explain a lot of the energy...

The best quote from there is:

"It Is A Well-Known Fact That Black Chevrolet Volts Are Both Faster And Have A Greater Electric Range Than Their Colored Peers"

I'm betting that black will be the...

Sounds like "gas escaping" could mean the gas cap is not on tight enough.

Likewise. Saw two parked next to my Volt at work the other day, and then another on the way home. I usually don't see that many Volts in one day, but just a day after the Tesla sightings, I did see 3...

I have not gone that far up in the Volt, but the A-Pillar is definitely a work out. Not as much of a work out as driving it every day with manual steering though!

When I did drive that road every...

That's a really good number.

I'm finally over "only ONE thousand" again, it was over 3000 before the dealer gas had to be used up... (I,d like to say I hit 3939 MPG, but it was a few weeks or...

Exactly my scenario. Sub expressway for freeway and just the bumper cover... Oh, and I was lined up to exit, as I was already existing.

You can take it to your dealer and have it disabled. Not really a software update, more of a software setting that's only available using the service bay computer. Had mine turned off when it was in...