The least number of mileage achieved on 100% charge

There seems to be a lot of topics on how people are getting the maximum number of mileage on a complete charge.

It may be helpful to get an idea of what the least amount of charge you ended up getting on a complete charge. This may be helpful so that people are aware of the worse case scenario so that you don't end up stranded.

Today, I drove about 58 miles and barely made it home. I had 4 miles left according to the car. I drove mostly on the freeway going about 75 mph with air conditioning on about 50% of the time. I turned off the A/C on the way home as I was beginning to get concerned about making it home. Outside temperature was about 80 degrees.

Although I have not run my LEAF to empty from 100% as quickly as I could have, my "juice use" gets pretty high when I drive my usual 35 mile trip to work on the freeway. The LEAF will average 2.0-2.5 miles per kwh at 80+ on the freeway (lead foot included)... Of course having level II charging at both ends eliminates my "juice use" range anxiety...

juniorboy90210 said:

Today, I drove about 58 miles and barely made it home. I had 4 miles left according to the car. I drove mostly on the freeway going about 75 mph with air conditioning on about 50% of the time. I turned off the A/C on the way home as I was beginning to get concerned about making it home. Outside temperature was about 80 degrees.

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Sounds about right. But it would have been better for you to slow down rather than turning off the A/C. Once you've had the A/C running for a while it takes very little energy to maintain temperature.

58 miles on a charge :shock: You must of been flooring it..I get ticked off when i only get a 110 miles with AC on per charge..

barely made it home eh?? ya, having that 3½ mile long driveway must have been a concern when the range estimate is only 4 miles.

lets talk about that range estimate. yesterday; to provide info for another post, i was going to run it down to turtle mode and find out how much it would take to recharge. for the first ~ 63 miles it was freeway at 70 mph. then the rest of it in town. i went to that very same 4 miles with 75 miles on the odometer. i finally hit the 2nd low batt warning and the "_ _ _" at 81.5 miles at which time, i got tired of driving around and parked it knowing that when i get to that _ _ _ reading that i probably have another 3-5 miles to go before turtle mode.

so its my contention that after "barely making it home" you could have done 3 laps to the local store and back and still have room to move.

My lowest mpk is 3.2 == 67 miles.

60 sounds about right for me too. The freeway is your enemy. The freeway at > 60-65 will kill you quick.

Too be fair, you'd have to run it from 100% to turtle (or dead-on-the-street) to determine your least miles. Using the Guess-O-Meter to determine any residual miles would be bad form.

Otherwise, sure, I charged to 100% today, drove to the San Diego meet-up at Home Town Buffet today, and back home.

14 miles.