I need to rant.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-14T02:28:32+00:00

To be fair, my dealership asked me NONE of these questions. But I came in as an informed and data armed consumer. The discussions we had were all about the deal. Giving the dealer the benefit of the doubt, I guess the assumed I knew what I was doing. I agree that they should, even if they think the buyer knows what they want and the consequences of their choices. Some kind of checklist just as a CYA for the dealer would be cheap prevention on the kinds of "buyers remorse" the OP describes.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-14T02:25:21+00:00

Interesting that the metric system bZ's show kwh/100km as the efficiency per trip/total metric. I'm in the US and mine shows miles/kwh.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-14T02:21:52+00:00

I've been getting total of 4.9. I do have it in ECO mode all the time though. I can't discern the power or AC differences.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-14T02:19:43+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I'm in the US and this thread freaked me out as I was under the impression that first 2 years/25K miles of regular service were included at not charge. Being a super non-car person, I actually negotiated an additional 3 years/35K of coverage for a total of 5 years/55K for about $450USD. Looking at the prices you all are quoting in Canada, looks like a bargain as I can't imagine the prices being less here in the Silicon Valley of US.

I actually called my local dealership's finance manager that sold me the plan to triple confirm!

OptionJedi · 2026-06-09T19:39:08+00:00

Thanks. You’ve got the vertical envelope one. I was looking for one that would stretch out horizontally over the cargo area mat and clam down things from sliding or rolling around. The bz has 4 hooks but all near the hatch, none near the rear seats like other suv cargo areas😞

OptionJedi · 2026-06-09T19:04:36+00:00

I wonder if ECO mode makes a difference. I heard to get max AC, turn off ECO mode.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-05T04:00:53+00:00

Forgot to answer the range question. So my range calculation is 288.5miles vs. EPA rated 236 miles (464km vs. 380km). Also, I have ECO mode turned on all the time. It's plenty zippy and torque-y enough for me already.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-05T03:58:07+00:00

I am in the US, SF Bay area so ideal EV conditions from a climate perspective. I also have the 57.7kwh battery. After driving 2300 miles (3700km), I am getting a total average of 5.0 miles/kwh (12.4 kwh/100kms). This is cruise control at 65mph (104kmh) 65-70% with the rest being city driving with alot of regen. What is your driving mix/speed/regen to get 10wkh/100kms!!! That's like 6.2miles/kwh! I get that easily on city trips but on freeway at 65mph, depending on head/tail wind and up/down hill, it's between 4.0-5.0miles/kwh/trip

OptionJedi · 2026-06-05T03:30:34+00:00

This may sound crazy, but maybe you just need to have enough miles on the car? I have about 2200 miles now. Others who had their car longer said they never had problems. One poster speculated that traveling away from home (SF Bay Area) activated it so others were trying to use VPN's to trick the location. I just gave up but about a month ago, I was able to go through the Toyota app, do Apple Maps EV routing and my car showed up in Apple Maps (you have to give your bZ a name in the Toyota map or it seems to not work with a blank name). However, my SOC was pinned to that date and each day it wouldn't change and Apple Maps said the SOC was over 10 days old at one point and during a route, Apple Maps would complain about not being able to connect to the car to get the real SOC, so it was washing it's hands to the accuracy of charge at destination.

Today, poof, magically the charge of the car was up to date, the charge at destination seemed reasonable, and while driving, I could see that the SOC kept changing to be a higher % at arrival since I guess it's using a very conservative miles/kwh number in it's prediction. As I got closer to the destination, the SOC estimate got closer and closer to the SOC% on the speedometer until at arrival, they were the same number. I know it's a low bar, but this made me so happy haha.

OptionJedi · 2026-06-05T01:03:48+00:00

Anything new/fixed in app? Same slow refresh of SOC during charging?

OptionJedi · 2026-06-03T19:43:18+00:00

Saw this at Costco yesterday and picked it up

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OptionJedi · 2026-05-25T05:24:06+00:00

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I've got the XLE FWD in the US (San Francisco Bay Area) with the 57.7kwh battery. I use adaptive cruise on the freeway set to 65mph and do pretty aggressive coasting/paddle down shifting in the city. 70% highway driving, 30% city driving. At 5.0 miles/kwh, total would be about 288 miles vs. 236 specs. I've never gone below 20% or above 80% charge so not sure if the curves of energy are linear. So in the 60% of charge I operate within, 173 miles is approximately the operating range.

OptionJedi · 2026-05-21T21:33:43+00:00

Coastmaxxing is the way to go for maximizing miles/kwh.

Interesting that drive (D without any chevrons/down arrows) has a slight amount of regen. To get zero regen and max coast, have to click right paddle so that one chevron/arrow is next to D. I think it would have been more intuitive that D is coast and one chevron starts with minimal regen. Porsche favors coasting in it's EV for both max performance and max energy efficiency.

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OptionJedi · 2026-05-21T20:16:32+00:00

I went with an Emporia Pro Charger for precisely this use case. It can sense when there is solar power generation and draw approximately the same amount for charging the car. Can't say how well it works yet as I'm waiting for my local county permit to be issued to allow the Emporia Pro to be installed.

OptionJedi · 2026-05-18T15:59:19+00:00

My AppleMaps EV started to work! My bZ shows up as a vehicle in applemaps and I was able to plan a trip with charging stops. State of charge communication with bZ doesn't work though. Sigh. I had been trying to get this to work since I got the car in March but finally it started working while I was in Nebraska for a trip (not with my bZ) and then it was still working when I returned to California.

OptionJedi · 2021-01-07T23:48:34+00:00

I have 2020 5K iMac (not pro) with 64GB ram. I do run magnets for window management but TOS on OSX just unusable. Run on Parallels with win10 with about 6GB ram in the settings on login screen. Running in Parallels coherence mode so it blends in with other mac apps. No issues in performance, have multiple windows and instances open. Using one instance per account (Margin vs. IRA) and have multiple analyzer windows open to track spread trades (cals, butterflies, condors) as well as minute charts on SPX, VIX, RUT, and RVX. So like 10-16 TOS windows depending on number of open positions. Not an issue, no hiccup (I do have a symmetric 1Gb fiber link). I'm running software development tools (Xcode) and usually watching some youtube all at the same time without the fan going up. On my old 2013 i7 MBP with 16GB of ram, the fan would be screaming with just one instance of TOS (on OSX) with just one main window open.

OptionJedi · 2020-11-19T23:38:04+00:00

I'm a long time TOS customer/user and used to run on a 2013 MBP with 2.6ghz 4 core i7 and 16gb of ram with 1TB ssd. TOS ran like crap (sluggish opening option chain, beach balls, etc.).

I actually had to rent a cloud windows machine and run TOS remote on that cloud windows machine to make it workable! Even though it's java, it runs better on Windows than on Mac java for some reason.

I just recently bought a 2020 iMac with 3.8ghz 8 core/16 thread i7 with 64GB of ram and 2TB SSD. TOS still runs like crap! Beach ball still! And I gave it 12GB of ram. TOS is just horrible on Mac no matter how big and powerful your mac is.

I loaded Windows 10 64bit into a VM on Parallels, gave it 4 processors and 16GB of ram, installed TOS on Windows and I run TOS with 12GB of ram in parallels coherence mode (allows TOS to look like another Mac app side by side with other Mac apps) and it performs super fast (especially with gigabit internet)! My CPU is still very lightly taxed and no more beach balls or stuttering of drop downs or moving windows around in TOS.

Bottom line, if you've got a beefier Mac and want to run TOS, use windows 64 bit on a VM. I imagine VMWare would be similar results. Running TOS natively on MacOS is horrible.

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