Recent content by qcar

I have a little stuffed bean bag sea turtle that sits on my dashboard right over the auto light sensor. Works great.

need to be careful about the demonstrating salesman, we were looking at mini-vans a few years back and the guy is going on and on about how the automatic sliding door has hands-safe safety features and will never close on someone's hand. He tells my wife to put her hand on the door jam and he...

Behind-the -times-me just watched Who Killed the electric car the other week for the first time (maybe in a few years I'll be ready for the sequel). In any case, I was presently surprised to see the back stories of all those friendly people who ran up and gave me a hug while hundreds of us were...

By 2015 all CA HOV lanes will become HOT lanes and white stickers wont provide any benefit. At least it would be that way if the MTA had its way after the 110 and 10 pilots end!

My building just installed to 2 chargepoint units. All tenants who want to use it have to sign an agreement that among others, limits the use of the spot to 4 hours/day. The building only has valet parking for guests and its a tandem parking building for tenants without reserved spots (this...

I think you meeting is well over, but I do have a question for the group. They just put a chargepoint in my building. I travel 40.5 miles roundtrip per day and Carwings indicates I use about 9 kWh per day net (I get about 3.5 regen per day). So I plugged into the chargepoint this morning and...

I am able to get just the fan to run without heat or air and in recirculate mode. This is no heat or Ac, just fan. Typically when the recirculate light is lit the ac or heat kicks in when you turn on the fan (and it switches to outside air). I am not sure what I am doing, but I get it back...

I am assuming they are doing this consistent with the vehicle code; I can't imagine they would make that mistake, but then again I've seen some interesting CFs. My main point for posting this here is to see if anyone else on this forum will be affected by this change and have a negative...

I don't think it matters in this situation so much as the idea here is to increase the use of the HOV lanes by making them HOT lanes and allow SOV (single occupied vehicles) into the HOT lanes (for a price). Thus I think they will get a lot more use and thus be slowed down to the highest price...

That may be be the case, but the HOV lanes sole purpose is to reduce congestion by encouraging car pooling right? The CA legislators created incentives to purchasers of alt energy vehicles that surely frustrate this purpose by providing Alt vehicles certain rights that are apposite of this...

Here is my followup to the MTA: __________________________________________________________ I do appreciate the focus of the pilot is to reduce congestion, but the CA state legislators have clearly demonstrated a mandate to provide incentives to reduce pollution that in many cases supersedes...

If you drive on the I-110 between the 91 and downtown LA or on the I-10 from downtown to the 605, come next year your HOV sticker on your shinny electric car wont be very useful. Expect to pay from .25 to 1.40 per mile. For the same privileged I enjoy today and my primary incentive to buy my...

I heard the Fisker Karma VSP sound as it rolled by my leaf at the Santa Monica National Plug in Day parade in the staging area. Yeah just the sound made me jealous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_hOR0cXS8&feature=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How did this resolve? Yesterday I stated getting the failed to connect and today I get the no account message when I try to download data. The online site has the same msg as you received.

Yesterday on my 40 min commute home it was about 79 degrees out. I put the Ac down as low as it would go and fan on one bar and as you point out the energy usage for the AC was cut in half. Indeed at times it indicated that there was no energy at all being used on the AC as the usage dropped...