And when I say elementary, I really mean as in the joy of driving a car powered by those subatomic elementary particles called electrons! Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus and Christmas this year came on a very warm mid-March day in New England. The elves deep in their headquarters in Bavaria have been busy and the product of their effort is a pleasure to drive. Now that I am officially an Electronaut, there is no going back... oh wait, yes there is... i.e. I need to go back and finish the upgrades on my VOLTSwagen, so that we can start using it more often and maybe even as a second full-time commuter car. The whole experience of getting to today has reinvigorated my efforts there as well. Lots to do, but that's a different blog...
Although Heisenberg stated that you can not know precisely the position and energy, after spending lots of energy not knowing when I would enter the adventure as an Electronaut, the stars aligned today as not only was I able to pick up my ActiveE, but my Level 2 charging equipment was also installed today. Thank you, ChargePoint America! The system is working fine, has allowed fast charging of my ActiveE at 6.4 kW via a J1772 and is ready again for the road tomorrow. The ActiveE is next to my VOLTSwagen in the garage and they are getting along nicely. It's cool having 2 all electric cars in the garage!
As far as first impressions, the car handles very nice and seems plenty peppy enough. I didn't have a lot of time to learn the in-and-outs of the car, but that will come. I do hope that BMW fixes the MyBMW Remote app, because the features like timed charging will be very important once I have Time-of-use metering installed and can charge at $0.057/kWh, a further savings over our normal $0.136/kWh from Sterling Light Company. Stay tuned for more details as I get more into the car. P.S. My wife doesn't like the car stickers very much, but my 4 year old daughter loves them and thinks the car is very cool!
