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Vincent and friends, It's been a month since the last meetup in Irvine. Any plans for one this month? How about this coming Saturday October 19?

I just pulled out of my parking garage at work, driving 35-40mph when this happened. It was a Saturday morning so there was just one other car on the road and it was going much more aggressively than my car.

Update. It's been a while since I had heard any updates in regards to the status of my car so I rang Mossy Toyota yesterday evening and am told that things are finally coming together. The replacement battery pack is to arrive this coming Monday and I am told that the head engineers for Tesla...

resolved The traction battery was replaced! ------------------------------------------------------------------- High Battery Temp (Battery Cooling Now) and Low Battery Temp (Battery Warming Now) Check EV System. I join the group of folks who have had problems with the car while driving. Two...

I've been in a 2013 Prius since Sept 21 when my Rav4 went into reduced power mode and wouldn't start again after I pulled to the side of the road. The prius, I find to be noisy and under powered for my liking but it's not bad; I can see why it's so well liked; it can easily keep up on the...

I did the same - adding a Rav4 to the mix, keeping the volt but the leaf is gone.

sobayimage, Thanks for taking the time to put this video of the mod that dark showed us all how to do. The link to the original thread is here: http://www.myrav4ev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=455

All good suggestions but I thought the idea was to have a car that can go further with an ICE since he already had a Rav4 EV.

Here's a photo of the stage10 electronic shift module. There are other options but they all run about $200-$250 http://stage-10-online.myshopify.com/products/ess

Yes. It's a solid choice but I don't think it does 120v so building an openEVSE in a small box is the best option. Some people like the upgraded L1 from EVSEupgrade but with the Rav4 bricks it's only 12A at 240v. 20A would require the Nissan unit but that's expensive.

Those are pretty cool - dark had one at the Irvine meet this weekend. It's similar to the Tesla Roadster control panel.

Your thought of an EV with an ICE extender is perfect. Of the ones listed, I think the volt is best since it's nearly purely electric for the first 40 miles (of course, I'm biased because I have one). The others to consider include the Mitshubishi Outlander EREV or perhaps the BMW i3 with...

I'd echo the same sentiments. It was fun chatting with everyone and discussing all things EV including EVSEs, Leafs, Volts and of course the Rav4; I even saw an Active E pull up to charge after our group left. mnml did a great job installing his mirror mod.

I hope to be there but may be in a volt instead of rav4.

I am curious to know whether forum members are more often interested in green tech or generally interested in cars (or both?). In other words, are there car guys and gals on here? If so, what other rides do you have? It would also be interesting to see how many came to the Rav4 from other EVs...

Is there direct access to the battery?

Doesn't the Max PSI on the sidewall say 44?

I was reading about the older Rav4 EVs and realized that there was a Range extending trailer made for it. Wouldn't it be fun to have one of these things work on our cars? http://www.evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm

Thanks Tony - this is helpful.

I took off the set of stock Yokohama tires on my car after 500 miles and was going to keep them as backup. But now I am thinking that I might like to replace the stock wheels too (they now have 1500 miles on them); if I do this, I would put the stock tires and wheels back together and sell them...