Real life range

[evets]

This is my first EV, so I can’t compare my IM6 to the regen in any other EV. I can however, compare my IM6 regen to the plethora of ICE cars I have driven. I feel the regen braking is closely comparable to the compression braking on the common two liter four cylinder ICE engine, the engine that powered most of my previous cars. The speed lost while coasting is therefore familiar to me and I’m satisfied with that. Since I have never experienced one pedal driving, I don’t know what I’m missing, and I’m okay with that.
I haven’t been in enough traffic to test the stop-and-go feature. Are there any comments on that?

 

[MikeJS]

Apologies I should have been more clear; my comment was about the launch version.
I can't see why the LR would not be able to deliver 300 miles; driving sensibly.

I do hope so. Really want to see some real life data.

 

[Don H]

Hi MikeJS
I’ve had my long range for a little over a week now. So far I’ve been getting around 3.2 out of it, that equates to around 320 on a full charge. It’s cold at the moment so range will suffer a bit but come spring time I guesstimate it will give round 3.4 /5 - so around 340-350. That’s on mixed driving, if your going to be belting up and down motorways most of the time I would suggest your going to get around 2.8 so around 280 ( which will hopefully improve with the weather). I’ve been driving electric cars for a few years and to be honest when I’m on motorways range always suffers regardless of the car make. To be fare the im6 appears to be somewhat better than most I’ve driven ( unless I give it lots of beans - then the range drops).
Hope that helps !

 

[MikeJS]

Hi MikeJS
I’ve had my long range for a little over a week now. So far I’ve been getting around 3.2 out of it, that equates to around 320 on a full charge. It’s cold at the moment so range will suffer a bit but come spring time I guesstimate it will give round 3.4 /5 - so around 340-350. That’s on mixed driving, if your going to be belting up and down motorways most of the time I would suggest your going to get around 2.8 so around 280 ( which will hopefully improve with the weather). I’ve been driving electric cars for a few years and to be honest when I’m on motorways range always suffers regardless of the car make. To be fare the im6 appears to be somewhat better than most I’ve driven ( unless I give it lots of beans - then the range drops).
Hope that helps !

Hi Don
Thank you very much for that response. I have been driving EVs for over 10 years so well used to the vagaries or range guesstimations! 300 in summer is good enough for what I want. I won’t cancel my order yet…...

 

[evets]

I do hope so. Really want to see some real life data.

Excuse me, are you implying the data in the initial post of this thread is fake? Enquiring minds want to know.

 

[LenEV2016]

Excuse me, are you implying the data in the initial post of this thread is fake? Enquiring minds want to know.

I'm sure he isn't, as helpful as it is it doesn't reflect the conditions that UK owners will encounter as you will not have the temperature drops we have in the UK and the big impact that has on range, our roads and their condition are also different..
Most of the members on here are UK based so that is the real world figures they are interested in.

 

[evets]

Point well taken.

 

[rokfor2000]

one is frequently lifting off the throttle pedal

Obviously cruising on a highway doesn’t include much coasting, therefore not much regen braking.

This is an interesting point. I thought there's another issues with a motorway driving.

I tend to use cruise control there. My old ZS EV power usage indicator would go negative when regen was on. Whilst driving manually it would indeed do that pretty much all the time, on cruise control though, the consumption would only drop to 0, but would never go negative. Even when the car was slowing down. I assumed this is because cruise control uses physical brakes rather than regen. Not sure if IM6 is the same. Doesn't ACC contribute to a higher energy usage due to lack of regen when its activated?

 

[MikeJS]

Excuse me, are you implying the data in the initial post of this thread is fake? Enquiring minds want to know.

The initial post is unclear as the post would seem to suggest a max range of around 260 miles which is poor. However, the efficiency given (3.6mi/kwh) should give around 360 miles….

 

[NikLiverpool]

This is an interesting point. I thought there's another issues with a motorway driving.

I tend to use cruise control there. My old ZS EV power usage indicator would go negative when regen was on. Whilst driving manually it would indeed do that pretty much all the time, on cruise control though, the consumption would only drop to 0, but would never go negative. Even when the car was slowing down. I assumed this is because cruise control uses physical brakes rather than regen. Not sure if IM6 is the same. Doesn't ACC contribute to a higher energy usage due to lack of regen when its activated?

Not sure about the IM. Having driven the Atto3 though on the motorway, which has a similar set up ( no single pedal driving) and using the brake pedal for regen I noticed that the ACC does utilise regen and was more efficient than me since it takes more conservative approach.
Of course if you can master hypermiling no ACC can compare, I for once do not have this skillset