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2000 Honda Civic EX 4-door with 130,000 miles -- 13 years was getting to be a bit of a long stretch without changing cars. We were only getting...
Hehee, I hear you. We are an edge/unusual case. We generally do three drives each day. Since we live in a city that is 5 miles across, and...
That sounds like us. We charge once overnight and use that up on the morning drive. Then we get another full charge before the afternoon drive....
This is completely Awesome! My goal is to do this; but I'm still resolving the "living on top of a hill" issue -- where engine kicks in when it...
Maybe a low cost solution would just be some sort of alarm that goes off when the amps drop...and I could run down and unplug. Hmm...
Doesn't really work when the car begins it's charge at a random state of charge. I really have no idea how long each charge will take. I guess I...
Tracksyde had a great potential solution for this problem: So if I had a device that watched for the amperage drop, then that would probably be...
I've been doing this some -- and it does seem to work. There are two problems though: 1) It uses up more brakes down the big hill -- which is...
Wow, that is a GREAT idea! Thank you!
Verrrry interesting! Now I need to find a European owner that lives on the top of a hill and ask them if they have this issue in City mode. Then...
Sorry; I should have been more clear. I need an automated way to read the charge level. Ugh...that's what I was afraid of. And no way to leave...
Well, I did my first "fill up" today to figure out if my estimates match reality. 317.4 miles 2.27 gallons So my gallon every 200 miles was...
I have a project that requires me to be able to read the Li-ion charge level while the PiP is charging. I've got a OBD-II ScanTool arriving this...
If the warranty hasn't changed from 2012 to 2013, here is the link to the warranty book:...
Chevy and Ford parked next to my PiP.
Windmills at Crissy Field generating power.
My first picture of my PiP. Charging at Crissy Field for free while I go for a bike ride.
re: engine free-spinning when battery is full and not using gas: Thanks much for the correction. I'll do a better job of checking my sources...
I like the silver the best of the available colors, so that's what we went with. What I would have preferred is bright red.
I also live on top of a hill, and was concerned that my engine was coming on shortly after leaving home. I read that when fully charged the PiP...
