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Old 11-23-2015, 12:18 PM   #7 (permalink)
bennelson
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Yes, I still have the flood damaged salvaged one.

I have a friend looking at buying a salvaged (crashed) iMIEV. If he does, we'll use some of the parts from my salvage car to fix the one he gets.

Otherwise, at least for right now, I have really cheap insurance on the iMIEV. If I get in a fender bender, I don't need the insurance company to fix it. I have spare fenders on the other car....

Nope, I didn't pump up the tires on the car before leaving.

The drive was SLOWER than with a gas car, because of the speeds I was driving, my route, and charging. Mile-wise, it was the same, or possibly even a little less distance.

As for mods, the car only has a heated driver seat. I would like to add an aftermarket seat heater to the passenger seat.

Some sort of a system of thermal mass would be interesting as well to improve winter heating, especially getting that heat from the wall.
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