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I was going down the freeway at a continuous speed of about 85-95 mph (136-153 km/h) yesterday for about an hour, and I noticed some VERY strange behavior from my vehicle. ABOVE 78 mph/125 km/h, the behavior is as follows: Normal mode: Vehicle uses clutch to connect engine directly to wheels...

https://www.tflcar.com/2020/06/ev-battery-degradation-news/ Not surprisingly, the worst degradation happens in PHEVs and not BEVs, due to the much lower battery capacity of the PHEV, much higher cycling, much higher average depth-of-discharge, and insufficient energy to maintain the temperature...

Has anyone figured out what the charging algorithm is for the 12V auxiliary battery? What I've been able to figure out so far: - When connected to EVSE, voltage starts at 14.40V, then drops to 14.30V. Not sure if it drops farther or will eventually float at 13.8V, or if the charger is simply...

We discussed this in the thread about CHAdeMO: https://www.myoutlanderphev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4737&p=52342#p52342 How quickly does the battery drain when going up this slope? Well, recently did a test. Except this time, I didn't start with a full battery. I wanted to see what would...

Well I'm actually quite impressed. Looks like Mitsubishi put a very good inverter for the 1500W AC power in the PHEV. I put a scope on it today to find out what waveform the thing was putting out and it appears to be a pure sine wave! I was honestly expecting a stepped sine but sometimes I get...

What is the point of having a TPMS if you can't even see the tire pressures? I took one tire down to around 25 psi to see if it would alert and the TPMS alerted, but didn't even tell me which tire was low. Even worse, if all wheels had been at say 28 psi I would have had no alert and no...

The last time I changed the oil, the lab found very little fuel in it, and so this time, when I sent my sample in (at 6k miles instead of 5k), I asked them whether they thought I could go to a 10k mile OCI. Well this time, they found 4.5% fuel dilution, which is more than double what they found...

I seriously can't decide if I like the thing or hate it. It's more a combination of the two, depending on what's happening. At low speeds, I like the thing. At high speeds when I'm trying to accelerate, and the clutch is transmitting mechanical power directly to the wheels, I'm indifferent to...

After driving the Outlander PHEV for the past 4-5 months, I think it needs a mode in which it keeps the ICE warm, charging the battery or propelling the car opportunistically if it has to run the ICE anyway to keep it warm, but not actually running the ICE for these purposes. You know, the way...

How do you get the doors to automatically lock when you switch on the vehicle, or put it into drive? The doors don't auto lock and this drives me nuts. Every car I haven driven in the last 18 years has had this feature and I never remember to lock the doors manually.

Has anyone found a way to *delete* a radio preset? By delete, I mean put it back in the state it was in when the car was new (as opposed to overwriting the preset with another channel which is NOT what I want to do). Instead of showing the frequency (for AM/FM) or channel name (for SiriusXM), I...

Anyone know what type of oil (viscosity and whether it's synthetic or not) the Outlander PHEVs have when they roll out of the factory?

Are you kidding me?!? The amount of noise and interference generated by the vehicle itself tells me that the engineers were EXTREMELY sloppy. They did not properly shield the motors/batteries from the radio antenna, and it makes AM radio very annoying to listen to. The station I was listening to...

Has anyone ever heard their battery cooling system in their Outlander PHEV come on during Level 2 charging, or when simply plugged in to a Level 2 charger after the car is done charging? I know that the cooling comes on when using CHAdeMO but I have never heard the fans or compressor start up...