A few weeks ago I did an 80 mile RT. I was able to check the estimated
miles remaining at a few points and the overall trip and it tracked very
closely with the actual miles on the odometer. Most of this was fairly
steady freeway driving at about 65-70 mph. I suppose for city driving,
it will get more range, but I can't imagine 100 miles of city driving in
one day - counting time at stop lights, that would be 8 or so hours of
driving. Phew !
So far, I haven't figured out how to get it display percent of charge
remaining. I only see the bars, of which there are 8. I have no idea if
they are uniform or not. But I do notice that they do seem to come close
to 12.5 miles of actual range, each.
I'm presuming I'll get somewhat better range in warm weather.
Peri
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From: "Ed Blackmond via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
Cc: "Ed Blackmond" <e...@blackmond.com>
Sent: 08-Dec-23 09:59:38
Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Automakers hear China behind them
I’m curious how you determine your range. Do you actually drive it 100 miles,
or do something like drive it until the instrumentation shows that 25% of the
charge has been used and multiply the number of miles traveled by four?
How accurate is the mini’s instrumentation? The instrumentation on my 1998
Honda EVPlus was very accurate. The 2011 Leaf, not so much. When I finally got
the LeafSpy app, I learned that it still had about 15% usable charge when the
cars instrumentation quit displaying information.
My 2017 Bolt seems to be quite accurate. It has a feature they call trend bars
that extend above or below the number displayed by the guess-o-meter. These
indicate how much better, or worse, the remaining range will be under the
current driving conditions. I have found this to be a very useful indicator
when needing to use the full charge.
Ed
On Dec 8, 2023, at 6:48 AM, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
I'm pretty happy with the mini cooper. It achieves the small size factor,
though only marginally small price. But the range seems to be fine for metro
driving. In cold weather, in the 30s every night, we're getting right around
100 miles range. That's plenty for the seattle metro area.
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