I read a few posts here that said the battery conditioning doesnt come on unless its plugged in. This isnt true. I charged my car to full and saw all the numbers on Energy showing zero. Since I owned the car I never saw the conditioning ever have a percentage. Now that Vegas is hot as hell I checked yesterday for the first time and it showed 11% after being outside for 8 hours while at work. it was 106 degrees yesterday. Then i went to bed at 8pm and woke up at 12 and went to my car again. the conditioning showed 14 percent and it was night time when i parked it. Still over 100 degrees tho. I think the reason the owners manual says to keep it plugged in with extreme heat is so you can use the wall outlet to cool the battery instead of using up the battery to cool when not plugged in.
GM did a really good job with all the high tech stuff they did to protect the battery instead of trying to save money like nissan did with the leaf. I am very confident that our sparky with thermal mgmt will run for a very long time. I really feel the spark is the best used car value on the market for under 10k. How these cars arent selling like hot cakes on the used market is beyond me. Its literally a free car if u pay under 10 when u count the gas savings.
GM did a really good job with all the high tech stuff they did to protect the battery instead of trying to save money like nissan did with the leaf. I am very confident that our sparky with thermal mgmt will run for a very long time. I really feel the spark is the best used car value on the market for under 10k. How these cars arent selling like hot cakes on the used market is beyond me. Its literally a free car if u pay under 10 when u count the gas savings.