I Will not be at the breakfast this Saturday. I have flown to San Jose and for first time rented a BMW I3 from Turo.com. Boomer predicted I would not be too happy with the car. I had some scary moments starting out because I forgot to ask enough questions about the controls. The 85 miles of range seems awfully limited. Today I try to use the CCS charger it was a disaster. It was out of Whole Foods and it was getting continuous use and maybe it was worn. It wouldn’t take my RF ID card I called they got me started with some help from another driver. Then the car seem to show you incorrectly that I had enough charge and I stopped it but I couldn’t pull the plug out. I asked for help from a nearby young fellow and he worked for five minutes struggling and finally got a key in there and unleashed the jam. I was truly frightened wasted an hour to get only 10 miles of charge and don’t want to ever use CCS again I realized on the less heavily used unit experience might be better.
Tonight I am back at the motel which I selected because it has two Level two‘s but both tonight and last night there was competition for the chargers and tonight I have no place to plug-in. The whole concept of plugging in for the night doesn’t really work when chargepoint Keeps billing you as long as you’re plugged in. so you would have to get up in the middle of the night to unplug when full. The car next to me is displaying that it is 2/3 full while charging so it may fill up before I go to bed and the manager may be able to get the owner to move the cable. The charge point units will not even tell you whether they are supplying power. The Turo part of the experience seems to be working well but I needed to ask a lot more questions before driving off in the car. The rearview camera is so wide angle it’s very hard to park in backwards which is necessary for the charge cable to reach. At least I am home in the motel safe for the night.
Hi see BMW I3 a few LEAFS and a zillion teslas all over up here. The motel has both a model S and a model X.
I drove by the very spot in Mountain View where the Model X had the fatal crash. The collision damper had been replaced. I saw a report that the driver had actually reported to Tesla twice that the car was tending to pull into that barrier every time he drove by. So why was his hands not on the wheel when he came by that section? It is all crazy but the technology clearly has a long way to go.