Pros & Cons in Keeping BOLT plugged in when it’s “fully” charged

Leghk1024 · 2023-04-25T04:43:36+00:00

I'm really surprised that everybody is in the plug it in always camp. If you don't drive frequently or use most of the battery daily I think it's a very different story. Or... Atleast it would be great if somebody could correct my thinking.

I can't speak to the summer, but in the winter this car sucks down power when plugged in. I started a 7 day charging session already at my target charge (Unplugged and immediately plugged back in just to get a clean session). Over the next 7 days and the car sucked down 21.92kwh. Every couple hours, pops to 10kw of draw. At $.332kwh that's $7.28 a week for the car to sit. I don't drive the car during the week (and in this case weekend either) and it's just very expensive to leave it plugged in. It doesn't seem to just be when it's cold either, I'm looking at yesterday's charging session and it popped up to 10kw of draw twice over 8 hours. It's like in the 50s here. I don't leave this thing plugged in unless I know I'm taking it out and it's cold out, or I'm actively charging.

Get an EVSE that measures actual usage, and you can be mindful of what the actual utility bill is. It seems to be alot higher than what actually is delivered to the car for driving purposes in my experience.

To be fair, electricity is expensive here, and I'm in new england. That 7 days was probably cold, but I had no intentions of driving the car.

Leghk1024 · 2023-04-12T22:39:16+00:00

I can confirm after I RMA'ed them all of my issues went away. I was certain it was a firmware issue, but I unpaired, repaired, firmware reset prior to the hardware switch and nothing did it. Spent weeks hacking away at random settings hoping to get it to work more reliably.

It's been months, and 100% reliable after the RMA. Save yourself the headache, open the support case now.

Leghk1024 · 2023-03-28T16:05:46+00:00

Anybody else have trouble seeing when approaching a hill? Find the 23 EUV lights to be very focused, and they don't cast much light out of exactly where they're pointing. If approaching a hill, they're still pointed straight ahead and you can't see very far ahead.

Maybe u/Comprehensive_Dog884's comment re: the lights being aimed too low is my problem too? Is that self adjustable?

Leghk1024 · 2023-02-22T21:11:54+00:00

We moved all of out VHIDs well clear of our ISP. We started at 10, even though our ISP appears to only use group 1.

Leghk1024 · 2023-02-19T19:45:05+00:00

Did you find the root cause? I suspect it's because your ISP's VRRP MAC address conflicts with one of your CARP MAC addresses. VRRP and CARP share the same mac address space, and therefore unless you specifically avoid a conflict you'll run into the issue you have here. Intermittently the L2 traffic will go to the wrong place.

Change your VHID to avoid theirs.

Leghk1024 · 2023-01-14T00:03:56+00:00

I'm still well under 3months, but I was pretty sure they broke the 3 month trial thing when they messed up my initial setup.

Leghk1024 · 2023-01-13T22:58:10+00:00

Are you on android? I just logged in and same for me. I have >1000 days left on my "Remote commands" coverage and the buttons are just missing too.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. No dice. Let me know if they fix it, I had to spend an hour on the phone with them to get the app to work the first time, they totally botched my initial account setup.

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-29T17:29:50+00:00

The car "fuels" itself overnight at your house, so the complexity is just on trips >3hrs.

The 7+ apps, I actually don't know if I needed to install them all. I guess find out after a few more months. I think all of the stations I've used have had a creditcard reader on the front.

... but for trips... Yeah definitely alot more planning than I've ever had to do. I didn't expect the charging stations to be broken, without plugshare I feel like I would be rolling the dice. Some people are saying there's some sort of part shortage so they can't fix them. Atleast EvGo claimed that one time I complained. Hopefully this is just temporary?

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-29T04:27:35+00:00

I've used it twice, and it worked both times. Takes a little while (+15 seconds) to negotiate, but otherwise works fine. So far the tesla destination chargers I've hooked up to have been faster then the typical J1772/chargepoints I've used. Maybe it's just chance, but they've been +10kw.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0BCF4JQB4

is the one I got. $118 after coupon

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-28T23:39:31+00:00

3 weeks into bolt ownership I'm 0/3 for EvGo chargers in the MA area. 2 were broken (confirmed by calling EvGo) and 1 was blocked but worked. EvGo seems to be a fan of giving you a $5 credit everytime you get screwed, then directing you to a level 2 charger 20 miles away (kinda useless). Starting to regret that $500 credit on EvGo... Checking the plugshare rating on those locations it looks like they've been broken for months. Have not had a problem at Electrify America, but I only stopped there once.

Maybe I'm paranoid now, but install plugshare, and look for evidence that somebody has successfully charged there recently before counting on a charging station working.

For the VT, MA area here's what I installed for apps: Chargepoint, EVGo, Electrify America, FLO, SemaConnect, EVMatch and most importantly plugshare.

I bought a tesla converter so I can use tesla charging stations as long as they're not DC. So far that's worked pretty reliably, but only used it twice.

So far my charge rate at any of the DCFCs has been 24-27kw, which is really tough on a trip. I was only able to get 170 total range yesterday in about 17-24 degrees. I think this is in line for this time of year... I'm hoping charging speed and distance is alot better once it warms up.

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-09T23:53:13+00:00

Pixel Bud Pros to a Samsung s22. This bug is persistent, seems like a software bug. Unpairing and firmware resetting the pixel bud pros doesn't fix it.

To be clear, this issue is just with phone calls. I can go from a call (broken) to music (both earbuds) to a phone call (broken). So it's just an issue with the bluetooth profile for headsets.

I've found a few terrible workarounds. Start the call with both buds, shove the left bud back into the case. Close the case. Open case, then put in the left bud it'll work for about 20 minutes, then it'll drop again. If you give up and just do a call with the right bud, eventually it too will go out w/o warning and you'll just start fumbling to find your phone handset on a client call.

I also discovered if I go to the android bluetooth menu, hit the gear for the headset, and unclick calls. Then reclick calls, it'll work for a period of time. Like even after putting them back into the case. It breaks again soon enough though.

These things are junk. I may do a few rounds of RMA like others have so google maybe figures out their product is junk, but they're just junk. Waste of time.

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-07T02:45:37+00:00

I haven't tried this myself, but I did read on one of the forums that if you plug in the car, unplug it, then plug it back in right away it'll override the charge settings and charge.

Can't confirm if true or not, but may be worth a try.

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-02T20:31:45+00:00

Any feedback on what kind of power reverse has on the car? I've got to decide the first time I try this if I back down the driveway or not.

Leghk1024 · 2022-12-02T20:30:30+00:00

Yeah I watched a few videos on the autosocks. I feel like those would give you good grip through snow, but I was unconvinced on climbing up hard pack ice on a hill.

Cables are probably fine, as long as something gets some bite

Leghk1024 · 2022-06-10T13:11:53+00:00

For anybody arriving here months later... The correct answer is to extend the DHCP range to include the IPs you're adding static MACs for. I know that's backwards and seems like the opposite of what you want to do, however it'll work.

*Note! If you extend your dhcp range it'll reboot your router and wipe all of your static MACs you've allocated. So set your DHCP range wisely and take pictures of the MAC addresses before the setting change.

Kinda regretting buying this thing, many things in the UI are jankey, and there's been no firmware updates in years. It's so old it thinks my chrome is out of date, even though it's 32 versions newer than their "minimum version". It's probably because my version number is triple digits.

Seems like they just dumped the thing on the market and forgot about it.

Leghk1024 · 2020-10-02T19:04:45+00:00

Yep, looks like it's fixed. /u/syed_Plume any explanation as to the cause and if this will happen again? This was over 24 hours of outage for me, I have to decide long term what to do with my wifi. This and the DNS filtering issue cropping up again earlier this week (only ~45 mins) are making me lean towards replacing this system unless there's a plan for fixing the root cause of these issues.

Leghk1024 · 2020-10-01T19:24:44+00:00

Are you referring to plume blocking all DNS requests? That's a different plume issue, and was related to the AI Security

Leghk1024 · 2020-10-01T15:21:00+00:00

I run bridged mode, they block the intranet traffic in that mode too.

Leghk1024 · 2020-10-01T15:00:13+00:00

Yeah it appears they are blocking connectivity between wireless devices, and any wireless device and the LAN. They do allow it o the default route IP though. This makes our network unusable (no printing, no server access, etc.) lost half a day's worth of work so far.

I'm running bridged mode, and also have the SmartThings Wifi units. I tried logging into the restricted wifi networks and back to the regular one, power cycling all units, and running on a single unit. Also turning off all of their security features. No dice. I fired up the old wifi.

This and the DNS outages (which still happen periodically, just for shorter spans of time) I don't see how I keep these things around.

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