Recent content by PJmacgee

Ethanol attracts water molecules, which get into your tank and can muck everything up. It also degrades plastic faster (2022+ Outlander has plastic fuel tank). For those reasons, ethanol-free gas is preferable if you always drive on battery and rarely use the gas engine. Higher octane gas won't...

Of course each car manages how much power goes in/out of the battery. It's not that the Outlander will blow up its own battery in any single charge session. And again for the OP, "Charge Mode" can/should be used whenever you want. Just that over the very long term (10+ years), DC fast charging...

If you have a home solar power system then you are effectively charging for free at home😉

What others said, the "fast charging" referred to in the manual means using the chademo plug at a chargepoint (or similar) type of DC charging station. Probably pretty rare or never for most people. Using "Charge" mode in the car should absolutely be used whenever you feel you need to, it's one...

Rear springs are definitely soft in this car. If the road bumps or heaving is spaced perfectly, it can get sketchy. Only way to change that is stiffer springs and/or dampers with a different tune (way more low speed compression damping), both of which are custom things that Mitsu will never...

Bull bar, and spare wheel carrier...can you post pictures of those, where'd you get the bull bar? There's another thread somewhere about spare wheel carrier, I modified a hitch mounted bike carrier to attach the wheel. Touch screen dying in first 18 months is not promising, but good to know...

Wow, interesting...sorry to hear that! Do you park outside overnight, or in a garage? Maybe if the car/battery is cold soaked way below freezing then the ICE turn-on can't be defeated (I park in my garage overnight which never drops below freezing, usually about 40°F in there). Since Mitsu...

For *any* planned longer trips with highway or rural road cruising, you'll want to drive in Normal until the battery charge drops to about 2/3, then switch to Save for the rest of the drive. When you arrive you can sneak around in EV (or Normal) mode in your destination area, and still hopefully...

Your signature says you're in a 2018 Outlander?That's a totally different car than 2023...I wouldn't expect anything to work the same at all.

In case you want to do a cross-country road trip, or drive out to the middle of nowhere every so often, and not have to worry about finding a charger. That's literally the whole raison d'etre of PHEV. I have a BEV and sometimes take it on long trips, but it's a hassle (and still impossible in...

Sure the little 20kwh battery gets abused by the big heavy PHEV. But the life/health of a PHEV battery isn't nearly as important as an EV. For example say our cold weather "abuse" causes a *horrible* 10% loss in range over 10yrs...so what, that's only 4 miles (compared to maybe 30mi range loss...

Not sure if you're intentionally being coy, conflating regular hybrid car ownership with plug-ins...? Obviously buyers of regular hybrids don't know/care, happy to let the car blend its power sources as needed. But plug-ins are *specifically* marketed as providing "up to X mi/km of electric-only...

2023 Outlander PHEV will (almost) never start ICE if you take an extra 1sec starting the car, at least in North America. So much discussion and consternation on various forums about this, but it's so simple to operate like an EV if you want to: 1) press Power with NO BRAKE pedal (ACC mode) 2)...

Are you using the "trick" described a few posts ago? That allows you drive without ever starting the ICE, almost indefinitely. Down to teens or 20s (F), and as long as you don't ask for max power accelerating all the time, or deplete the battery.

I think in early EVs the noisemaker was sort of optional, certainly not govt mandated. Then at some point (2020?) it became mandatory and non-defeatable on all vehicles while operating on electric power.