Familiarizing yourself with i-MiEV
General information/Charging 3-5
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Put the selector lever in the “B” (REGEN- ERATIVE BRAKE MODE) or “Eco” (ECOMODE) position according to the road con-dition. Using appropriate regenerative brak- ing can help increase
the cruising range.
Refer to “Regenerative braking” on page3-3.NOTE
Range-Driving conditions Shorten driving range
Lengthen
driving range
Range Reducing Condition Range Extending
High acceleration, speed Driving
style Low acceleration, speed
Heater on Heater usage
Heater off
(or use seat heater)
A/C on A/C usage A/C off Highway City/Highway City
Heavy payload Payload Light payload Windy, wet Weather Calm, dry Uphill, rough Road conditio
ns Flat/Downhill, smooth
D-mode Drive mode (Eco or B mode)
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Selector lever 5-22 Features and controls
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This position locks the transmission to pre- vent the vehicle from moving. The electric motor unit can be started from the “PARK” position.
This position is to back up. Use this position only wh
en the vehicle is sta-
tionary for an extended length of time while driving, such as in a traffic jam.
Use this position for normal driving. Use this position when you desire to limit power consumption and/or when moderateregenerative braking is required. Use this position when strong regenerative braking is required, such as on a steep down-hill. Refer to “Regenerative braking” on page 3-3. Refer to “When driving downhill” on page6-5.
CAUTION If the selector lever pos
ition indicator blinks
while you are driving, it
is likely that a safety
device is operating be
cause of a malfunction
in the transmission system. We recommend you to have your vehicle inspected as soon as possible. The selector lever posit
ion indicator warning
function does not operate with the selectorlever in the “R”
Selector lever positions “P” PARK
WA R N I N GDo not leave the vehicle with the electric motor switch in the “ON” position. The vehicle can move suddenly. To be sure the vehicle will not move,
even when you are
on level ground, alw
ays set the parking
brake and move the se
lector lever to the
“P” (PARK) position.
“R” REVERSE
CAUTION Never move the selector lever to the “P” (PARK) or
Bluetooth® 2.0 interface (if so equipped) 5-64 Features and controls
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You can make a call in the following 3 ways using the Bluetooth
® 2.0 interface:
Making a call by sayi
ng a telephone number,
making a call using the Bluetooth
® 2.0 inter-
face’s phonebook, and making a call by redi- aling. You can make a call
by saying the telephone
number. 1. Press the PICK-UP button. 2. Say “Dial.” 3. After the voice guide says “Number please,” say the
telephone number.
4. The voice guide will
say “Dialing
® 2.0 interface will then
make the call.
When the confirmation function is on, the system will confirm
the telephone number
again. To continue with that number, answer “Yes.” To change the telephone number, answer“No.” The system will say “Number please” then say the telephone number again.
You can make calls us
ing the vehicle phone-
book or mobile phonebook of the Bluetooth
®
2.0 interface. For details on the phonebooks, refer to “Phonebook function” on page 5-66. 1. Press the PICK-UP button. 2. Say “Call.”
3. After the voice guide
says “Name please,” to call, from those
registered in the phonebook. 4. If there is only 1 match, the system willproceed to Step 5. If there are 2 or more matches, the voice guide will say “More
than one match was
found, would you like to call
NOTE
The hands-free calls might not be operated correctly when it makes calling or receivingby operating the cellul
ar phone directly.
To m a k e a c a l l
Making a call by using the telephone number
NOTE
In the case of English, the system will recog- nise both “zero” and “oh”
(Letter “o”) for the
number “0.” The Bluetooth
® 2.0 interface supports num-
bers (0 to 9) and characters (+, # and
*).
The maximum supported telephone number length is as follows: • International telephone
number: + and tele-
phone numbers (to 18 digits). • Except for international telephone number: telephone numbers (to 19 digits).
Making a call using a phonebook
NOTE
If you say “Call” when
the vehicle phone-
book and the mobile phonebook are empty,the voice guide will
say “The vehicle phone-
book is empty. Would you like to add a new entry now?” Answer “Yes,” and the voice guide will say“Entering the phonebook - new entry menu.” You can now create da
ta in the vehicle
phonebook.Answer “No,” the system will return to the main menu.NOTE
If you say “No” to all names read by the sys- tem, the voice guide will say “Name not found, returning to main menu” and the sys-tem will return to the main menu.
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Bluetooth® 2.0 interface (if so equipped)
Features and controls 5-67
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6. The voice guide will say “Number please.” Say the telephone number to reg-ister it. 7. The voice guide will repeat the telephone number you have just read, and then reg- ister the number. When the telephone number has been reg-istered, the voice gui
de will say “Number
saved. Would you like to add another number for this entry?”
To add another te
lephone number for a
new location for the current entry, answer“Yes.” The system will return to location selection in Step 5. Answer “No” to end the registration pro-cess and return to the main menu.
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You can select 1 phonebook entry from the phonebook of the cellular phone and register it in the vehicle phonebook.
1. Press the PICK-UP button. 2. Say “Phonebook.” 3. The voice guide will
say “Select one of
the following: new entry, edit number, edit name, list names, delete, erase all, or import contact.
” Say “Import contact.”
to import a single entry or all contacts?” Say “Single entry.”
® 2.0 interface will become
ready to receive transferred phonebook data.
NOTE
When the confirmation function is on, the voice guide will say “<
Location>. Is this cor-
rect?” Answer “Yes.” in Step 5. If a telephone number has
been registered for
the selected location, th
e voice guide will say
“The current number is
In the case of English,
the system will recog-
nise both “zero” and “oh”
(Letter “o”) for the
number “0.”
NOTE
When the confirmation
function is on, after
repeating the telephone number you have read, the voice guide wi
ll ask “Is this cor-
rect?” Answer “Yes.”
rn to telephone number
registration in step 6.
To select and transfer one phone- book entry from the phonebook of the cellular phone NOTE
Transfer is not permitte
d unless the vehicle is
parked. Before transferring, make sure that the vehicle is parked in a safe location. All or part of data may not be transferred, even when the cellular phone supports Blue- tooth
®, depending on the compatibility of
the device.
The maximum supported telephone number length is 19 digits. A
ny telephone number of
20 digits or more will be
truncated to the first
19 digits. If telephone numbers
contain characters
other than 0 to 9,
*, # or +, these characters
are deleted before the transfer. For the connection set
tings on the cellular
phone side, refer to the instructions for the cellular phone.NOTE
If the maximum number of entries are already registered, the
voice guide will say
“The phonebook is full. Would you like todelete a name?” Say “Yes” if you want to delete a registered name. If you say “No,” the system will return to themain menu.NOTE
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Bluetooth® 2.0 interface (if so equipped)
Features and controls 5-71
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5. The voice guide will say “You are about to delete everything from your hands-freesystem phonebook. Do
you want to con-
tinue?” Answer “Yes” to continue. Answer “No” to cancel the deletion of allregistered information in the phonebook and return to the main menu. 6. The voice guide wi
ll say “Please wait,
erasing the hands-free system phone- book” and then the syst
em will de
lete all
data in the phonebook. When the deletion is complete, the voice guide will say “Ha
nds-free system phone-
book erased” and then the system will return to the main menu.
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All entries in the phonebook stored in the cel-lular phone can be transferred in a batch and registered in the mobile phonebook.Up to 7 mobile phonebooks, each containing up to 1,000 names, can be registered. The Bluetooth
® 2.0 interface automatically
converts from text to
voice the names regis-
tered in the transferred phonebook entries, and creates names.
Follow the steps below to transfer to the mobile phonebook the phonebook stored in the cellular phone.
1. Press the PICK-UP button. 2. Say “Phonebook.” 3. The voice guide will
say “Select one of
the following: new entry, edit number, edit name, list names, delete, erase all, or import contact.
” Say “Import contact.”
to import a single entry or all contacts?” Say “All contacts.”5. The voice guide will say “Importing the contact list from the mobile phonebook. This may take several minutes to com-plete. Would you like to continue?” phonebook the phonebook stored in thecellular phone will start. Answer “No,” the system will return to the main menu.
Mobile phonebook
NOTE
Only the mobile phonebook transferred from the connected cellul
ar phone can be used
with that cellular phone. You cannot change the names and telephone numbers in the phonebook entries registeredin the mobile phonebook. You cannot select and delete spec
ific phonebook entries, either.
To change or delete any of the above, changethe applicable information in the source phonebook of the cellular phone and then transfer the phonebook again.
To import a devices phonebook
NOTE
Transfer should be completed while the vehi- cle is parked. Before transferring, make sure that the vehicle is park
ed in a safe location.
The already stored phonebook in the mobile phonebook is overwritten by the storedphonebook in the cellular phone. All or part of data may not be transferred, even when the cellular phone supports Blue- tooth
®, depending on the compatibility of
the device. Only a home, a work, and a mobile number can be imported.
The maximum supported telephone number length is 19 digits. A
ny telephone number of
20 digits or more will be
truncated to the first
19 digits. If telephone numbers
contain characters
other than 0 to 9,
*, # or +, these characters
are deleted before the transfer. For the connection set
tings on the cellular
phone side, refer to the instructions for the cellular phone.NOTE
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AM/FM electronically tuned radio with CD player (if so equipped)
Comfort controls 7-19
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Press the SCAN button.
“SCAN” will appear
on the display and the CD player will playback the first 10 second
s of each track on the
selected disc (music
CDs only) or the cur-
rently selected folder (MP3 CDs only).The track number will blink while the scan mode is selected. To stop the scan mode, press the SCAN button again.
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This audio system can
display CD text and
MP3 titles including ID3 tag information. The audio system can di
splay disc and track
titles for discs with converted disc and track title information. Press the DISP button repeatedly to make selections in the following sequence: disc name
track name
normal
display mode. The audio system can display folder and track titles for discs wi
th converted folder and track
information. Press the DISP button repeat- edly to make selections in the followingsequence: folder name
track name
nor-
mal display mode.
The audio system can
display ID3 tag infor-
mation for files that ha
ve been recorded with
ID3 tag information. 1. Press the DISP button for 2 seconds or longer to switch to the ID3 tag informa- tion. “TAG” will appear on the display.2. Press the DISP button repeatedly to make selections in th
e following sequence:
album name
track name
artist name
normal display mode.
NOTE
With a disc that contains both CD-DA and MP3 files, the random
mode causes only
files of the same format (CD-DA only orMP3 files only) to be repeated.
To find the start of each track on a disc for playback
NOTE
Once all tracks on the
disc (music CDs only)
or the currently selected folder (MP3 CDs only) have been scanne
d, playback of the
disc will restart from
the beginning of the
track that was play
ing when scanning
started. With a disc that contains both CD-DA and MP3 files, the scan m
ode causes only files of
the same format (CD-DA only or MP3 filesonly) to be played.
CD text and MP3 title display
CD text
NOTE
The display can show up to 11 characters. If a disc name or track
name has more than 11
characters, press the PAGE button to viewthe next 11 characters. When there is no title information to be dis- played, the display shows “NO TITLE”. Characters that the a
udio system cannot dis-
play are shown as “ ”.
ID3 tag information
NOTE
To return from ID3 tag information to the folder name, press the DISP button again for2 seconds or longer. When there is no title information to be dis- played, the display
shows “NO TITLE”.
a folder name, track name
, or item of ID3 tag
information has more than 11 characters, press the PAGE button to view the next 11characters. Folder names, trac
k names and ID3 tag
information can each be displayed up to a length of 32 characters. Characters that the a
udio system cannot dis-
play are shown as “ ”.
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Tire repair kit 8-6 For emergencies
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4. Remove the tire repair kit.
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1. Return the tire repair kit to its original place. Attach the cover and fasten the screws.2. Insert two wire tabs at
the rear edge of the
seat cushion under the seat back.
3. Pass both rear seat
belt buckles through
slits at the rear edge of the seat cushion.Make sure that the seat belt buckles are not twisted. 4. While pushing the seat cushion as farback as possible, press down hooks (A) under the seat cushion into the right and left stopper installa
tion holes (B) until a
click is heard. 5. After installing the seat cushion, shake it lightly to confirm that it is properly fixedin position.
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To store
How to use the tire repair kit
WA R N I N G Never use the tire repair kit under in any of the situations listed below. The tire can-not be repaired by the tire repair kit. If any of these situations occurs, please con- tact a certified i-MiEV dealer.• More than one tire is punctured.• The puncture hole has a length or width of 1/7 inch (4 mm) or greater.• The tire is punctured in the side wall (A),not in the tread (B).• The vehicle has been driven with the tirealmost completely flat.• The tire has completely slipped over thewheel rim and come off the wheel.• The wheel is damaged.• A bump, cut or crack is on the tire.• The tire sealant’s expiration date has passed. (The expiration date is shown onthe bottle label (C).)(-30 °C) or above 140 °F (60 °C).
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Washer fluid
Vehicle care and maintenance 9-7
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The windshield washer fluid reservoir is under the hood. Check the washer fluid level at regular inter-vals and add washer fluid to reservoir if nec- essary. Open the reservoir cap and check the fluidlevel. When freezing weather is anticipated, flush out the water in the reservoir by operating the pump. Fill the reservoir with windshield anti-freeze (not radiator
antifreeze), and operate
the system for a few se
conds to flush out the
residual water.
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The brake fluid level must be between the “MAX” and “MIN” marks on the reservoir. The brake fluid level fa
lls slightly with wear
of the brake pads, but
this does not indicate
any abnormality. The brake fluid in the master cylinder should be checked when doing other work under the hood. The brake system should also bechecked for leaks at the same time. If the brake fluid level falls markedly in a short length of time, it indicates a leak in thebrake system.
If this occurs, have the vehicle checked by a certified i-MiEV dealer. Use the recommended brake fluid conform- ing to DOT 3 or DOT 4. The reservoir capmust be tightly sealed
to keep dirt and water
out.
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The condition of the 12V starter battery is very important to keep the vehicle’s electricalsystem working properly. Check the 12V starter battery regularly.
Washer fluid During cold weather
FULL 1/2
Brake fluid To check the fluid level
Fluid type
CAUTION Do not let any petrol
eum-based fluid touch,
mix with, or get into the brake fluid. This will damage the seals. Be careful when handling brake fluid. It can damage painted surfaces. Use only the listed brake fluid. Different brands of brake fluid have different addi-tives, and these can cause a chemical reac- tion. Do not mix brands of brake fluid. Keep the reservoir ta
nk cap closed to keep
the brake fluid from evaporating.
12V starter battery
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