Chevy Spark EV

[core2slow]

it's law to have daytime running lights now, some cars just use. the low beams. why do you have an issue with this? what is the reason you turn off this safety feature every time you get in the car?

the law doesnt say that you HAVE to have DRLs, only permits them.

A safety feature that the DOT prove to be statistically "insignificant" in their findings to the overall fatality/injury count. A better safety feature would be to remove the 7in monitors from every car out there...but that's topic for another thread.

 

[Yuriman]

I'm sure it eats a bit of range. 100w isn't all that much in a car that probably uses about 8,000w minimum to cruise on the highway, but it adds up.

 

[NutBucket]

They're probably HIDs (or maybe LEDs) so less than 100W.

 

[core2slow]

They're probably HIDs (or maybe LEDs) so less than 100W.

It's your typical H13 60/55W gas filament bulb, so like yuriman said, the 100W combined do add up and eat into the range (albeit small)

 

[fr]

Lowest I see is $99 lease but that's for the base trim w/o DCFC.

Anywho, after a week of ownership the ride has been amazing. ONE thing that bugs me is the auto light. There's really no true OFF switch and I have to constantly toggle it every time I'm in the car.

@fr, do you have this issue with your year? I'm thinking that theres a fuse somewhere that I can pull to turn off this function...

It's the same way on mine. Have to toggle the auto each time if I want to keep them off. I've just lived with it. They're on DRL mode most of my drive. Somebody did the math and calculated that even if you had the headlights on the whole time, it only reduced your range by less than 1%.