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If you're curious about B250e charging habits search this forum for some of my earlier posts. In particular how to put the B250e into "Tech Mode" to monitor high voltage battery current. You can see the charging current in amps numbers, not just the vague % markings on dash RH gauge. Out on the...

DTesla, Congratulations on your "new" B250e! What color and how many miles? I haven't tried charging from Tesla equipment, besides the incompatible connector, I thought Tesla chargers were locked for non-Tesla vehicles? Are you planing to use your Tesla account (or bonus KWh's) to charge your...

Short answer is no, there does not appear to be a way to save driver preferences, beyond those for seat position memory and outside mirrors memory, plus some data you can program into the cellphone and optional NAV package. Other driver preferences, such as Brake Regen, Driving Econ mode, etc...

Welcome! "great forum" - indeed, great vehicle! Well appreciated by those of us driving one, in spite of MBUSA's decision to cancel the B250e program. The biggest "hardware risk" is the failure of the MU (Motor Unit) and this was a serious problem for early MY (Model Years), but not for the...

Not sure what "one pedal driving" means - lifting off the accelerator slows it down due to regen braking? Looks like it has a 32.6 kWh High Voltage Battery Pack. Good to see it has both AC (L1/L2) and Fast DC charging (L3) From the page that you linked: LEVEL 1 BASIC HOME AC CHARGING LESS THAN...

I think you would have better success if you modify your attitude a little. Stop calling it a "lemon", or at least Wikipedia "lemon law" to see if you qualify under that legal definition. What you are claiming is that your specific vehicle has a defect. There are others with a similar defect...

I've reread the article because some of the technical "facts" just don't make sense to me. This may be due to overzealous editing for the article, or some glossing over of details by the author and his source. For some reason that link no longer works tonight, I wonder if someone else...

Hallcp, I dropped in here to post a link to that Electrek article, but you beat me to it. Well done! I shipped a personal vehicle from Chicago to California by rail. I think it was less that $1,000. Back in 1989. YMMV. Peter,

A bog standard EV is not intended to supply electrical power outside the vehicle. A significant modification would be required. The liability alone would kill the project. However, as an EV's High Voltage battery pack stores a lot of electrical power, compared with say, a home's daily demand...

Greetings mollyjacksontaylor, Welcome to the B250e owner's forum. Sorry to read about your B250e troubles. As you are new to this forum please read older postings from other members with similar complaints. MY2014 (Model Year 2014) vehicles are prone to MU (Motor Unit) failures due to coolant...

However, yours got a wash (or two), mine sits outdoors and collected cobwebs and tree debris... There are more EV chargers going in locally. Retail stores recognize their customers with EV vehicles favo(u)r places that offer charging. EV chargers are usually on a network. So one must have the...

Thanks for sharing your self-park video. My B250e doesn't have that feature, I'm not sure how many B250e models sold in the USA did. My favo(u)rite feature? The HOV sticker. Allows me to drive solo in the Car Pool (also known as HOV - High Occupancy Vehicle) lane on my daily commute. Oh...

JeffRay, The mental stumbling block for me is that a hybrid power train is complex. I like simple. "High Voltage Battery connects to Electric Motor". Adding an ICE engine, with 100% of the ICE maintenance, seems like a step backwards. Plus, the High Voltage Battery is downsized to make room for...

Well, I was wondering how to build a powder-coat paint furnace "with my own hands" ! Thank you Google Translate for helping. Now I'm hungry for a piroshky... Too bad a trip to Seattle's Pike Place with have to wait a while. Peter,

Thanks for adding more detail. JeffRay seems to think that all MB vehicles have cellular connectivity. Is that how the emergency roadside connection in the B250e works? I bought a subscription but never needed used it. The NAV map continues to operate, I assume it uses GPS signals for location...

Oh, the irony. I rented a RAV4 to go "where no B250e could safely go" (Hiking and photography trip to the Eastern Sierra, California) I agree it's a nice vehicle. My rental was of the ICE persuasion. Will be interesting to see how a EV/ICE hybrid stacks up. My only complaint was the noise from...

I was stuck in traffic this evening and tried the NAV function for driving range. The NAV then tried to connect to the internet, and got stuck. After a minute or so I cancelled out of it. When this feature was working, and before before I had a B250e, did the car try to connect to the public...

I couldn't get it to work when I first got my B250e, so I concluded it was shut off by MB. Pity. Also, I smile when using the B250e's NAV and it shows all the local GAS stations (but no EV chargers)! Funny story, last night I visited the car wash. It's been a few weeks, and as a bird shot a...

Nice! The B250e vehicle gets great remarks, and not just from the faithful owners registered on this forum! Hard to believe MB didn't keep it in their stable longer than MY2017. Still no obvious MB successor, and several of this forum's early adopters have fled MB, but not EVs. Fingers crossed...

As MY2017 was the last for the B250e your donor vehicle was probably low miles (hours) and your cells are "like brand new" capacity. That's probably the going rate for a salvaged High Voltage battery pack. Even reusing the Tesla pack and BMS has been hard for PV (and wind?) homebrew projects...