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Be sure to look at reviews covering DC charging performance. They're not great. However, if you only charge at home on AC, it probably doesn't matter.

Magnussen's Palo Alto has been good for me since 2013. I haven't been in for a year+ but they have always taken care of the things I needed.

Wow. 10 year necro-bump here. I was wrong. When the traction battery is charging on J1772, the 12V battery is maintained at about 13.8V float charge. When it is in READY, it will charge and float at about 14.4V. So, it is impossible to kill the 12V with small loads when READY or charging. The...

You are not the first one to do this. Others have made plug-in cables that use the 12V socket and OBD port. In fact, one such setup was shown on Tesla Bjorn's channel when he talked about the RAV4 EV at his friend's repair shop recently.

Working on the battery is entirely different than engineering a larger battery and adapting it to the vehicle. QC-Charge routinely replaces contactors inside the battery and can swap a battery from a different RAV4 EV. However, even swapping modules as a repair for damaged ones is very difficult...

QC Charge was closed for most of December. If you need to contact them, try them on the telephone again now that we are well into January.

My OVMS has been running for about two years now. I would like to make some improvements, but I don't have time to work on it. In theory, Remote Climate and Timer Charge Stop and Start should be relatively easy. However, I missed the opportunity to capture this CANbus traffic from a car while...

Don't you have that backwards?? I thought the DC-DC was glued shut and you had to cut through the glue to get to the fuses inside. Sealing it again to survive the under-hood environment is also an issue. I thought the charger was the easier fuse repair. The charger may be buried under more...

I am thinking about getting a Car Play Box 4k and putting it directly above the factory screen. I have some more due diligence before I buy - mostly things like finding an independent review. It seems a little odd that they don't have the installation guide online.

I still have my 2012 that I bought new in 2013. It “only” has 95k miles.

I decode the "Min SOC" from the low 10 bits of PID 0x302 on the Tesla CanBUS. I tried to make sense of the "SOC UI" in the next higher bits, but I could not figure it out because the values decoded throughout the charging profile didn't make sense. Anyway, my data above is after a "Standard...

How do you calculate SOH on the RAV4 EV? With OVMS, I can see the BMS reported stats. This is my car after charging. BMS SOC: 94% BMS Available Energy: 36.2kWh Lifetime Pack Discharge: 35,984kWh Lifetime Pack Charge: 37,942kWh Odometer: 144,082km If you just take the first two stats, SOC and...

No, really we just need more chargers. When there are reliably working DC Fast Chargers every 50 miles, you don't have to have so many rules.

I have sent them the full charging curve of my car on AC and DC, so it's at least representative of the model, but maybe not your specific car.

Yes, there is a plethora of Advanced options. You can see mine has live data available. The ambient temperature reported is obviously not correct. I have not figured out how to get the real data from the car, nor how to not send zero C to ABRP. It also keeps track of charging sessions and...

Agree. Especially since I got them to add the RAV4 EV as a selectable vehicle type. I have the OVMS updating the ABRP cloud in real time, just like the BT dongles and software do on other vehicles.

You can buy the map update from Toyota. However, I doubt you will find it worth the asking price. Mine has never been updated since new and I don't miss it. If you live in an area that has had a lot of construction with new roads and subdivisions, it might be worth it, but I prefer to just use...

This is a mainline Toyota part with special software inside. I would guess that any screen of similar age with the same size from another Toyota model would be interchangeable if you are willing to separate the screen module from the rest of the head unit. Keep in mind that I've never...

I am an original owner and I still see them regularly in Silicon Valley. In fact, I saw one "in the wild" today.

The BMS voltages are available on the Tesla CANbus. This is one of the screens on the OVMS. I also put another misc. info screen of RAV4-EV specific parameters available from the Tesla bus. I have not dug into the Toyota bus yet. The BMS will protect the battery pack by opening the...