Chevy Volt and Electric 3 series BMW (Ev-36/46)

Blower module aka Blower resistor replacement for a 2011 Volt (Gen1)  22745409   First step is to remove the trim on the passenger door sill.  This is required as the right outboard screw holding the lower trim panel on is not accessible with the trim on.  Removal is simply prying it up and then back.  It just has tabs that click into the slots you can see here. The next step is to remove the lower trim panel. There are three screws.  (9/32 socket fits the head) One to the right of this picture.  One to the left.  Then one to the back center (toward the front of the car).  I'll try to circle these in yellow later.  The one in the middle was missing on my car.  Makes me think someone has been here before.   Once the lower trim panel is removed there is an air duct that needs to be removed.  This was missing on my car.  Apparently the person that was in here last...

The first week of EV driving has been great.  Put on 220 miles this week.  So far we haven't had to use the gas motor backup (as a generator) at all.    One day we drove the car to a local charging station to try it out.  Drove there just to try it.   So it wasn't useful other than our education.  It was only a 4 mile drive to the charge station from our house and it took about 30min to charge the car to full.  While interesting it showed me that our plan of charging exclusively at the house is the way to go.    When we purchased the car the guessometer said it could go 25miles.  Which was fine for what we needed.  This morning it is up to 36 miles of expected battery range.  And after driving 14 miles to work it guesses I have 29 miles left.  That'd be 43 total miles.  Good deal.   When we bought the car the blower fan didn't work.  The owner stated that it probably needed a b...

The Warp 9 and all my miscellaneous left over bits are now sold.  Well except for some AGM batteries and Yacht battery chargers.  They are handy for other projects.  Like my electric mower.  Oh did I mention that I bought a 1970's electric tractor and use it to mow the lawn.  That is in addition to my converted electric riding mower.  A bunch of the AGM batteries and some chargers are living on in the mowers.  But for a road going EV this weekend the quest, for me, has finally come to an end.  Now that there are quite a few premade EV's on the market I decided to make life simple and just buy one. Originally I didn't want a EV with a range extender.  But Virginia is not encouraging EV ownership.  In Virginia the price for Vehicle registrations for a pure EV are significantly higher than a EV with a Range extender aka "Hybrid".  Once the range extender door was opened I started also factoring in plug in Hybrids.  I began ...