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Charge port weather cover for BMW i3 / i3s (I01, Mega City Vehicle)

Published at 2024-05-06
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Burning Becks

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My EV is usually parked in the driveway and BMW designed the charging port like the fuel fillers they did before. While I don't doubt, that rain water will find it's way around the contacts, I stumbled upon Tom Moloughney's Blog post and possible issues with snow gathering there. In Germany those outdoor faucet covers don't cost below three €, so I gathered some dimensions and designed this cover in OpenSCAD. Also added some ribs, which might guide rain water around the port completely. It's quite large and tends to warp, so there are extra supports added - if your dislike those, feel free to re-compile with the according parameters set to zero.

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Burning Becks
Burning Becks
over 4 years
Thanks, Erik! The design is not completely parametric, but for starters you can uncomment those ribs and set the sizes to your needs. And the wall thickness to one line width for test prints (I needed three of those).
UltiErik
UltiErik
over 4 years
Nice job, Burning Becks! I don't have the same car brand, but I will keep this one in mind, as I can adjust the OpenSCAD file to my dimensions if this is going to help.

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