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My remote control app stopped connecting to the PHEV. Dealer determined that WiFi in car was faulty. my PHEV also had a recall on the security. computer was reflashed, new VIN password. much longer and mix of upper and lower letters and numbers. why, why, why is it needed. new WiFi with...

Any forum member achieved the petrol economy with the %EV driving shown on MMC advertising. I know the testing is specific, but I have would have expected the %EV to be a much higher value to achieve 1.9L/100km.

Had the message "FCM temporarily unavailable" The usual warning triangle appeared with the FCM OFF permanently displayed. Holding the FCM button did not operate the function with toggling between off, far and near modes. Was raining "cats and dogs" at the time. The very conditions where FCM...

I don't get the opportunity to drive EV only much, and recently this has changed. I had hoped the display of average EV on the split screen window might have been useful. I had assumed that the number displayed was affected by the ICE operation, but it is just as useless in EV only driving...

Brazil is not the only place it is hot. PHEV endured 49C today, with Aircon drawing around 4kW. Was comfy in the cabin, with temp set to 23C. Windows are still hot to touch though. Even managed a pic. Was a bit blurred, but heh it was really hot and I did not want to stop driving..

PHEV had been charging for about 1 3/4 hours and I was just passing the car to check on progress. Even though I am passionate about accessing data from my PHEV, when the car pulls out numbers like this from its own computer, I really have to re-assess what data is believable.

The merits of driving a PHEV with petrol, or electric, or hybrid from an economic perspective is a major reason we have a PHEV. The absolute price of petrol and electricity will play a big part in the economics. The price of petrol varies quite a bit with a weekly cycle, and electricity is...

Just had the 45000km service and the PHEV when reset, now has over 2 years before it needs to be serviced. Does not seem very logical to me. Surely the MMC design engineers would have realized that a maximum of 12 months would be right.

There is a lot of chatter RE: cost of driving. If I had to buy my Electricity @ $0.35/kWh, the typical power cost I would pay for grid supplied power then a typical drive I do, would return a cost like this. As a comparison I have also done the same drive using SAVE mode, with a full...

I have been recently recording how my PHEV has operated when subjected to higher power demands and a depleted battery in NORMAL mode. On the last test, a section of freeway up a reasonably steep grade for about 8km, My PHEV switched from Parallel Hybrid operation to Series Hybrid. I have been...

The rate of battery recharging is as we know affected by battery %SOC. I tested for a short period today in CHARGE mode and B0 to see the impact of the battery at higher charge levels. I started at 65% and recharged to 75%. The recharging current was not a smooth transition, but was a stepped...

I am presently collecting data from the OBD2 port using Torque, and have just driven from my home to Melbourne, a distance of approx 800km. The trip was about 8 hours of driving, with a bit of traffic, and mainly flat, but a slight head wind. Have a lot of data to present in a few weeks when I...

Have just returned from the dealer to clear some persistent fault codes. These included the Check Engine, EV service required, ACC service, ABS service, power steering, and others. Had some red flashing warnings on the dash that eventually went after several power ON/OFF cycles. Total of 23...

I have been a victim of overtight wheel studs. Not sure if the culprit was the mechanic who last serviced the PHEV, or corrosion of the stud from some 4WDing. Turns out that I needed a 600mm breaker bar on the wheel stud to get sufficient leverage to undo the front wheel studs. The torque...

I was a participant in the Win10 technical preview, and have now been left with the only option of the full upgrade. Left the computer do its thing and it seems that a heap of stuff is going on with the upgrade. My network has recorded about 12GB of traffic for today. So far the upgrade is...

I have a "ChargePoint" card and decided to check my PHEV would accept a recharge from one of the ManeKe fixed point stations. These are 15A. Was rudely shocked at the energy cost. Came up with $4.20 per hour, or part thereof. Petrol is soooo cheap compared to this. Almost seems like there...

i am presently on Kangaroo Island. A mate has a private beach cabin. Road to the cabin is very steep. Rock with clay and sections at about 40% grade. Had some rain overnight and track became slippery. PHEV could only give 20kw EV alone. Even with foot flat to the floor PHEV would run out...

I know there is a lot of theory re how the PHEV matches up with other similar vehicles on the economy scale. I have recently driven many km as a petrol car, with a returned economy on the highway of just over 8L/100km. A mate has recently purchased the Challenger, a slightly bigger SUV, still...

The AUX battery in my PHEV and perhaps all others is a Lead acid type. I have a continuous voltage monitor plugged into the cig lighter socket and most of the time this reads 14.6V. On my aussie road trip, the PHEV was driven for up to 4 hours in a stretch. Sometimes the voltage dropped to...

While on my recent holiday, I was able to legally check my PHEV's top speed on a level road with no wind assist. Speedo registered 175kph, but sadly only 170 on the GPS. have others recorded a similar speed limiting. BTW the pedal still had more to go, but the PHEV would not go faster.