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Is the Fiat program due to available range of the car, or available range of the owner sitting in a Fiat 500? :) I'm joking. It's a very interesting idea to package an accommodation for longer trips into the purchase, or as an option. Perhaps in areas/time periods that they're equipped, they...

The salesperson is probably offering to sell you an EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) unit, or "charger," from another manufacturer as a way of saving you the effort of investigating that purchase yourself. The vehicle already is able to charge from a 240 volt supply via any available...

The pre-departure climate control activation will not change your climate control settings to the ones that you need to warm the car. You must set the climate control, with the car switched on, to the settings that you would imagine needing if you jumped in and switched on the car and climate...

I would concur about the equilibration, and my unstated presupposition was that a higher than outside air temperature parking location may influence the GOM reading away from what its reading would be if parked at the "aussentemperatur." :) Perhaps if your reading has been taken at the "still...

Are those readings of 66-71 observed after parked in a semi-heated garage space, or outdoors in the 20s and 30s? Here in the 0s to 10s overnight, outdoors, I'm observing 56. I wonder what people with the Range Extender function, when switched on for a loading cycle, observe in the cold.

Although a bit delayed to make that first of session login connection, and an occasional need to logout and login to force a sync, I've had little problem with it. For my wife and I to both use it, we had to use a single account/password because the second account seems to not assign a vehicle...

So to do this, you'd need a portable level 2 EVSE, an input cable adapted to plug, the linked portable phase combiner device, extension cables of large enough gauge that are also long enough to reach two out-of-phase outlets... Perhaps your portable EVSE and a JLong would be cheaper and less...

Barry - I share the cold weather problem regarding range, but the availability problem I don't understand unless the charge station availability falls outside your reduced range. What I wonder is if heating the battery while the vehicle is parked is actually helpful in doing anything but...

That evaluation depicted is based upon some electricity sources that I don't seem to have on offer in my U.S. location... This is a somewhat popular topic for journalism these days... Perhaps if they cut to the heart(s) of the matter too quickly, they may run out of material on the subject...

Is it possible that this occasional delay of charging has been coincidental or due to factors external to the setting of an indicated departure (not charge) time? Have you based your idea of delayed charging on the on-board display of calculated time at 100% charge? Selecting charging delay...

Do you mean this part here: "In a product briefing, Mark Webster, Mercedes-Benz general manager of e-mobility, said owners would get online accounts for their cars, letting them schedule charging and set climate control remotely from a PC, tablet, or smartphone." That doesn't seem to indicate...

I'm in favor of load balancing the demands on the grid via electric vehicle charge cycle timing. If Mercedes-Benz wanted to create an onboard charge timer, don't you think they'd call the setting "charge time" instead of "departure time?" Mercedes-Benz delivers the car with an EVSE that takes...

I believe that the departure time setting in the vehicle is intended solely for climate control purposes. I think that there it makes sense to situate the control the timing of charging, if intended for time of use utility rates, within the piece of the system that is more permanently installed...

Does anybody know an alternate way of finding the VVC in order to activate the app? My dealer is researching it, but nobody there has experience with it yet.

No matter what is connected to the car's charge port, the charging amperage delivered by the car's onboard charger is always selectable by the car's own menu. At this point the car allows selections of 10A, 13A, or maximum. There is no adjustment setting between 13A or maximum. What people...

I'm not sure if they are or aren't, but in my case they seemed open to any combination, and my preference was to capitalize lower amounts. It seems to me that it would be in the dealer's interest to help you find the combination of upfront payment and monthly that agrees with the buyer/lessor...

I (we) began a lease last week with very similar figures. Sticker MSRP: $48,950 Acquisition fee (destination charge): $795 36 months, 10,000mi/yr (same as yours, although you didn't state it), $0.25/extra mile Residual value: $22,517...

That's a fair question. $500 for tire swapping over a few years does represent a savings versus $1,000, but at the end of the period the extra wheel set also has a value. Setting up an appointment for the swap and timing it correctly for a sudden storm and tire wear balancing is a consideration...

Thanks for providing the info. Did your dealer (assuming they did the work) squawk about the wheels chosen at all? Did you transfer the TPMS sensors, or have a new set installed? I haven't ever owned a TPMS-equipped vehicle before and I wonder how much of an expense this would be. I would plan...