Cold weather motorway mi/kWh?

[LenEV2016]

I'm getting on well with Goodyear all-seasons, after having changed my tyres twice a year for good winter ones since 2010.

Although I came here to say, maybe 2.2-2.5 miles/kwh.

LFP batteries certainly experience far greater impact from the cold and it has certainly been nippy out in Scotland lately

 

[Rolfe]

True dat. But the car goes as far as I need it to go in a day, so I don't really care. It's mainly an issue on long motorway journeys and I don't do many of them in winter. Even then, so long as I can make Tebay (and I've never come up short) I'm happy.

 

[Sparky Matt]

For a little update.

I averaged 2.5 Miles per KW on most of the journey on the lovely french motorways, and improved to around 3.0 on the slower german/Austrian non motorways.

I mostly had cruise set at 120KPH, so a smidge over 70mph, so 2.5 is a little disappointing.

I was mostly stopping after just over an hour motorway driving at around 20% battery and charging to 70% which was taking around 15-20 mins. so can't really complain at charging speed.

It nearly always hit 130KW, and would drop to 100kw at 60, then 60kw at 70%.

I used only Tesla superchargers which are really cheap, cost around £10 for 30KW!

I did wonder if i would get a drop in speed after 5 rapid charges in one journey, but no issue.


On my journey back, which im intending to do St. Anton to calais in 1 day driving (600 miles), i will try and get nearer to 10% battery at each stop and only charge to 60% as i think this should be the quickest option?

Probably going to be 6-7 rapid charges in 1 journey!!


After only driving motorways at a constand speed the guess-ommeter was actually really accurate!

 

[siteguru]

If you drive at 110 or (better) 105 kph you'll find your mpkWh will improve. The additional travel time will be small (vs 120 kph), and you may even be able to skip a charge stop.