Speaking of the East coast heat wave (from another thread)... my car arrived in the middle of it.
I'm trying to get a feel for whether my air conditioning performance is normal or not. Frankly it's not handling the heat very well. It starts out moderately okay in the morning, but doesn't hold up for long.
In the afternoon the A/C gets very tepid. Yesterday it was intermittently giving me warm air instead of cool. I've not been seeing yellow on the motor/battery/PEM temperature monitors (this afternoon I got a very brief power limit once with the battery going to the yellow - that's it).
A couple of times I ended up just turning off the A/C and opening the windows. That's saying something when my back yard weather station says the temperature peaked at 34.8C (94.6F), with a humidex of 43C (109F).
Now that's pretty hot for Canada, but I doubt it's anything unusual for the southern states (except maybe the humidity).
I know the A/C is shared with the battery, and that the battery's needs outweigh my comfort, but is this normal performance? If that's just what it is, then fine. I'd just like to know.
Other than that the car is an absolute BLAST.
Thanks,
Doug
I'm trying to get a feel for whether my air conditioning performance is normal or not. Frankly it's not handling the heat very well. It starts out moderately okay in the morning, but doesn't hold up for long.
In the afternoon the A/C gets very tepid. Yesterday it was intermittently giving me warm air instead of cool. I've not been seeing yellow on the motor/battery/PEM temperature monitors (this afternoon I got a very brief power limit once with the battery going to the yellow - that's it).
A couple of times I ended up just turning off the A/C and opening the windows. That's saying something when my back yard weather station says the temperature peaked at 34.8C (94.6F), with a humidex of 43C (109F).
Now that's pretty hot for Canada, but I doubt it's anything unusual for the southern states (except maybe the humidity).
I know the A/C is shared with the battery, and that the battery's needs outweigh my comfort, but is this normal performance? If that's just what it is, then fine. I'd just like to know.
Other than that the car is an absolute BLAST.
Thanks,
Doug