tbleakne said:
Your 3rd video gets you to your office with about 60 miles remaining. I believe you started from home with 105 miles showing, and you said your commute was about 31 mi each way. 105-60 = 45, so about 14 miles went "missing." I am anxious to hear how many miles were showing when you returned home. You said you were going to check what Carwings showed. Is there reason to believe it might be more accurate ?
Your daily commute is going to be a pretty serious test for this car. After you have a week or two of commutes to gain confidence, and assuming the weather permits an absence of climate control, you might want to try starting out with slightly less than 100% charge to be as gentle as possible on the battery. The advice I have heard seems to suggest keeping the battery centered around 50-55% SOC is optimum.
30.5 miles each way for a drive of 61 miles r/t.
There were 31 miles remaining that night when I got home. I actually did better with respect to the miles remaining matching what I used going home, but that was probably down to moderate traffic forcing me to keep my maximum speed down and into more regen. What I intended to check through Carwings was SOC as a percentage, but that night I never got to it.
The next day was actually a more consistent drive - I stayed on the cruise control @ 65mph the entire way (except for the 3-4 miles on surface streets) I started out with only 99 miles that morning, but arrived at work with 57 miles showing. So 42 miles "used" and 11.5 "missing".
Coming home that night I left with 56 miles (lost a mile by allowing a coworker to just roll the car forward a couple of feet) and arrived with 27 miles showing. So 29 miles used to drive the 30.5 distance. This was in heavy stop-and-go traffic most of the way.
I also used 9 bars in the car and dipped into the 10th about 2 miles from home.
I haven't figured out yet why miles go missing on the way to work and not on the way home. It could be the freeway speed thing - I've yet to be able to drive home at freeway speeds due to typically heavier traffic on the drive home - or it could be a cold pack thing.
Today I actually join the 80% club (see other thread). I'm charged to 83% right now, with 10 bars showing in the car. I
should get home after just dipping into the final red bar, so long as I can keep my average consumption of ~4mpkWh going.
This is what (I think) I've learned so far:
Each bar is worth 1.67kWh (12 divided by 20 - the last 4kWh are under the last red bar as reserve).
Each bar has been worth ~6.6 miles to me (assuming the ~4mpkWh). Call it 6.5 to make addition easier.