Petriix
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I'm pretty confident on how the consumption will respond to my driving. I drove 180 miles without holding back on mostly motorways and dual carriageways and got home with 6%. I could easily have slowed down and kept more in reserve but I just didn't need to.Hiya, I total agree the reason why I said the figures are important is because they are untrue the car g.o.m takes an Estimate of your passed journeys and as you quite rightly state Petriix it’s about how you drive the type and condition of the roads your on because at the end of my journey in poor conditions at times you can see from my pictures the car still was showing 22% battery left enough for a further 50 miles or so under the same conditions not that I would ever push it that far unless I had to
Les
On the corresponding outward journey I got 220 miles from 84% and could have got close to 280 to empty if I'd really wanted to (I drove faster in the latter part of the route).
It's pretty easy to manage but certain conditions can significantly reduce the range:
- Cold really affects the battery efficiency but you can mitigate it a bit by charging right before you leave or rapid charging early in the journey, and of course the heating is power hungry.
- Heavy rain can add a lot of additional rolling resistance due to the energy required to displace the standing water.
- Headwinds are basically the same as driving faster in that air resistance increases at velocity squared.