OK, so here's another update. As a reminder, we're talking about the IM6 Long Range. Today's drive was at 14 - 16 C.
- Total distance:185
- Total motorway miles (70mph): 132.2
- Trip efficiency 3.1 mi/kWh
- Mode: ECO
The trip was in 2 legs, I did top up the car at Tesla supercharger at Gloucester. The 1st leg is interesting as it's (almost) exclusively motorway so really a worst case. At 4am traffic allows pretty much constant 70mph (although there was a closure at junction 13 which caused a slow traffic and ~10 min congestion). Here's the details of the 1st leg
- Starting charge 96% (373 mi range)
- Total miles 140 miles
- Motorway 128.5 miles
- End charge 51% (206 mi range)
- Trip efficiency 2.9 mi/kWh
- Heating was off most of the time, I had it pre-wormed at home and surprisingly having a coat I was OK. Turned it on towards the end of the journey for ~10 min.
Having said that not sure how accurate the computer data is. I lost 45% on the journey, with 100 kWh batter this is ... well 45 kWh, That'd give it actually efficiency of 3.1 mi/kWh. But then again I've topped up 44 kWh and I am almost certain that the battery was at 86%, unfortunately I didn't take an after charging picture of the battery status so I can't confirm it ant it may just be my middle-of-the-night brain misremembering things,
I've arrived at destination with 78% charge (318 mi range).
I've also did a small 9.2 mile dash in the evening on the country roads, here I got 3.4 mi/kWh and I dropped to 76%.
I'll be heading back on Thursday afternoon. My experience with ZS EV on the same route is that return journey is ALWAYS much more efficient due to much heavier traffic, slowing down the trip and boosting efficiency. Let's see how IM6 is going to be on that leg.
And now, considering it's 10:30pm and that I'm up since 3:30am I'm going to bed. Have a nice evening everyone! I'm looking forward to the morning digest of this post.
Goodnight
