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I'm now down to 13.07 kWh, which is 71% of the original capacity, on my 2015 Spark. Is anyone else's lower than this? At this rate I'll be at 65% capacity (11.96 kWh) within a year.

Huh, strange. I know it doesn't rewind the kWh if you plug it in and don't fully charge it. But I might be wrong about the regen.

You might already know this, but I just wanted to note for others reading that the Energy Consumption screen in the car is not an accurate of the battery capacity because it accounts for regenerated energy in the percentage used but not in the kWh consumed. So if you have a 10kWh battery and you...

Here's the front page and relevant sections of the my warranty. https://imgur.com/a/31gcs6x

I do charge to 100%, and I pretty much always use L2 with the occasional L1. Yup, the '14 uses A123 and they moved to LG chem in 2015. My warranty booklet says 35%, hopefully that's not a typo. And I think the degradation might actually be more time-based rather than mileage. The rate of...

My 2015 with 44300 miles is now down to 13.7 KWh. I brought it in to the dealership last month to see if there was anything wrong. They kept it for a couple weeks but couldn't find anything aside from the A/C being slightly overcharged. When I bought the car last September it was at about 40100...

I'm not sure if it's a hard rule of 35% degradation = replacement. The dealership I took my spark to said they send the info to GM engineering and they decide whether to replace the battery. The dealership has replaced 2 spark batteries and for one of them, GM called the owner and told them to...

I did mention that to the service guy at the desk and he said that it would show a warning light for any codes. I've only seen it show the light once after L2 charging and it went away with a restart. I also checked for codes with torque pro but I don't know how exhaustive that is. Hopefully GM...

An update to my above post, about how my 2015 Spark w/40k miles has 14kWh of capacity: I brought it in to a local dealership yesterday and they said they couldn't find anything wrong with it but they're going to contact GM engineering. The tech I spoke to said they had replaced 2 Spark EV...

Do you really average 5 mi/kWh at 65mph? I haven't seen less than 16kW on flat roads at 65mph, putting my freeway max efficiency at around 4 mi/kWh. Are you on stock tires? I have some really crappy tires that the dealership put on but I'm running them at 37psi and I wouldn't think that tires...

I recently bought a 2015 with DCFC and 40k miles. The GOM range looked good when I bought it and the car was in good shape so I assumed the battery had to have a decent amount of life left. However the GOM range dropped quite a bit as soon as I started driving, and I recently downloaded the PIDs...