12/6/24 - I, and many other Mini EV owners, got an official update in the mail yesterday about Supercharger access and NACS adapters for Minis. The only really substantive thing it says is that we will gain Tesla Supercharger access in 2025, via a Mini-certified NACS adapters and updates to the Mini App. It does …
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Oh no! Not again!!
August 22, 2024 - 3 years, almost to the day, since I received the fateful notice for my Bolt, I just learned about a battery recall for my Mini. I have not yet been notified by Mini; a news article about the recall came up on my feed, so I looked up my VIN and, …
The Opening of the Tesla Supercharger Network
February 29, 2024 represented a significant leap forward for CCS EV owners in the US. It was the day that the Tesla Supercharger network opened at-large to non-Tesla EVs. It is the beginning of what sounds like a very long roll-out, so in reality it does not change much for most EV drivers (myself included). …
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The Dream of Affordable EV Ownership Goes Up In Flames (a statistically small percent of the time) – the Bolt Recall
I got my Bolt on July 1, 2021. Less than two months later, on August 20, 2021, GM expanded the Bolt battery recall to include my 2020 model. For those of you who don't know, over a period of 6 or so months GM issued several recalls for the high-voltage batteries in the Bolts, eventually …
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