First road trip this weekend (~200mi one way) and was pleased overall. Used the sole Super Charger along the way and was amazed at the shear speed.
Public charging throughout the trip worked fine, but def took much planning and more walking than usual. Used EVgo, ChargePoint, and Blink. All worked fine with the J1772 adapter. A couple times I did wish I had the Chademo adapter, which would’ve saved a lot of time, but not sure if the ROI is there for $400 (or whatever they cost now).
Experienced two quirks. First one was when charging in a parking garage, I was next to a very big air handler/fan that was going full bore. The key fob acted like it was out of battery. Couldn’t unlock doors or open the trunk, etc. When I got it to open finally, the car wouldn’t start, giving me the “Key is not present” msg. I remember a post about putting the fob next to the USB and 12V outlets and sure enough, the car started. Fob and car acted 100% normally when I arrived at the hotel parking structure. I can only conjecture that the the air handler caused interference?
Second - on the trip home, the screen went black/rebooted itself four times within a span of 30 miles. Wasn’t doing anything specific or out of the ordinary. No further reboots after the fourth time. Just took delivery of the car last week so I’m on the latest F/W version.
All-in-all, loving the car and my decision to go Zero Em vs getting the M3 (Bimmer!
).
Public charging throughout the trip worked fine, but def took much planning and more walking than usual. Used EVgo, ChargePoint, and Blink. All worked fine with the J1772 adapter. A couple times I did wish I had the Chademo adapter, which would’ve saved a lot of time, but not sure if the ROI is there for $400 (or whatever they cost now).
Experienced two quirks. First one was when charging in a parking garage, I was next to a very big air handler/fan that was going full bore. The key fob acted like it was out of battery. Couldn’t unlock doors or open the trunk, etc. When I got it to open finally, the car wouldn’t start, giving me the “Key is not present” msg. I remember a post about putting the fob next to the USB and 12V outlets and sure enough, the car started. Fob and car acted 100% normally when I arrived at the hotel parking structure. I can only conjecture that the the air handler caused interference?
Second - on the trip home, the screen went black/rebooted itself four times within a span of 30 miles. Wasn’t doing anything specific or out of the ordinary. No further reboots after the fourth time. Just took delivery of the car last week so I’m on the latest F/W version.
All-in-all, loving the car and my decision to go Zero Em vs getting the M3 (Bimmer!
).
