A new day, a new set of data. After this post, I'll quit doing new posts and update this one with fresh data for those who want to see it. So be prepared to find this thread if you continue to be interested in how I do with the Michelins long-term. You could, of course, also check my Battery Performance document on Google Drive. This charts my battery performance over this same commute since I started to see significant degradation in my pack (about 18 months worth):
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BTW, I had occasion to take a bend at pretty swift pace today and can confirm that cornering is better with the Michelins too!
So, as for the drive to work this morning. I purposely kept speeds to a maximum of 66mph indicated, and speeds were also held down to between 55mph and 60 mph for a third of the distance due to heavy traffic. So my average speed must have been closer to 60mph, and thus my energy economy crept up to 4.4 miles kWh (though only just, because it quite literally increased from 4.3 miles kWh as I pulled into the parking lot). It was also a tad warmer this morning and there was next to no wind. All of which could have helped.
Miles % of Gids Gidometer Gids Pack Voltage
0 | 75.8 | 213 | 393
30.5 | 41.9 | 118 | 375.5
61 | 11.3 | 32 | 358
So that's just shy of 34% of Gids for getting to work this morning, compared to 36% yesterday, and just over 30% of Gids for the way home (but with slightly heavier traffic). That's 64.5% of Gids for the whole day, with an average of 4.6 miles kWh. I'm attributing the savings over yesterday's 65.9% of Gids more to the restrictive traffic this morning than anything else.
10/29/13
Miles % of Gids Gidometer Gids Pack Voltage
0 | 76.5 | 216 | 392.5
30.5 | 40.2 | 113 | 375
61 | 10.6 | 30 | 358
10/30/13
Miles % of Gids Gidometer Gids Pack Voltage
0 | 75.8 | 213 | 393
30.5 | 41.9 | 118 | 375.5
61 | 11.3 | 32 | 358
10/31/13
Miles % of Gids Gidometer Gids Pack Voltage
0 | 75.8 | 213 | 393
30.5 | 41.6 | 117 | 376
61 | 11.3 | 32 | 356.5
Not much to say about today's inbound drive. Much the same as yesterday's. I did hit 4.4 miles kWh much earlier in the drive today, but I had about 4 miles of stop-and-go early on, which probably helped. But then I hit an accident and had a couple of miles of traffic at a dead stop, and accelerating away from the accident site took me back to 4.3 miles per. The whole thing probably cost me a better percent of Gids arrival figure too. On the way home, due to leaving early, I was able to do 65mph for almost the whole drive, with just a couple of places traffic ground to a halt. And yet my figures are almost identical to yesterday's.
