When stalled, the car is operating in EV only mode, and once stopped I couldn't figure out how to make it switch into series hybrid mode to get the extra power required. As I understand it, we should have 120 kw electric power from the motors (MY13, 60 front + 60 back), but the peak draw from the b...

Some pictures from PHEV Watchdog app:

Hi, AurelianR. I will try to answer your questions: 1- About the battery, you can ask for a "Battery State of Health".. The internal computer that manages the battery (BMU) has this number and the dealer just need to read it. You can even do that with a ODB2 adapter. This "State of Health" (SoH) sho...

A 4WD car/SUV is a lot more stable than a 2WD at the same conditions.
I don't know C-Max, but comparing specs, the Outlander surpass it in all specs.

Cheers.

Alex.

As far as I know the warranty applies for a battery with SoH < 70%. Don't quite follow- does that mean anything over 70% isn't covered? Sorry, I was not clear. The battery has a warranty of 160.000 Km or 8 years, what comes first. They will replace the battery under warranty if the SoH got bellow 7...

As far as I know the warranty applies for a battery with SoH < 70%. This report was issued by the authorized dealer when I bought my car (from them). They told me they make this report and input the data "in the system" for every maintenance, so Mitsubishi-NL has a tracking of batteries life. And th...

You should expect something like this.
The important information here, regarding the battery, is the "Battery Current Capacity". In this example it is 32.9Ah.
The accepted nominal battery capacity is 38Ah, so in this case the battery has a SoH of 86.5% (32.9/38).

Cheers.

Alex.

There are commercial solutions available for this. Plug and play. LiFePO4 replacement for acid lead batteries: http://www.go-aliant.com/lithium/index.php/products-it/batterie-litio-monoblocco/aliant-serie-ea A friend of mine uses one of this to replace its motorcycle one. Very happy with the solutio...

I'm trying to understand how this post turned out to be about the 12V battery..

Anyway, absolutely under no circumstances a Wifi module will take 2W of power.

A regular wifi module with a 32 bits microcontroller will draw around 200mW in idle with the WiFi powered on.

The information is correct. The best voltage to store Li-Ion cells is 3.86V. Of course you don't need to be spot on this. Just avoid full charged or discharged battery. If you do not plan to use the car for a few days (that is the target customer for the email you received), charge/discharge the bat...