DaveinOlyWA
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surfingslovak said:I'm sorry, I don't follow at all. Why would the reported Gid count not pencil out? The 3.0 Gid per mile you seem to question equates to approximately 4.4 miles/kWh. Steve is reporting 4.43 miles/kWh per dash, averaged from 3 trips over 183 miles. That's pretty close, wouldn't you say? The 3.3 Gid per mile you seem to prefer equates to 3.8 miles/kWh.DaveinOlyWA said:problem with all this is he states his GID count was 243 which was measured when it was still warm but that does not pencil out. if this was the case, then he is using about 195 GID or 3.0 GID/ mile now, he states he is getting good performance (which i verified is not that tough to get. we must have "easy" roads here...) so if that was the case, then his range despite what the GOM says would be around 77 miles and at his current rate of degradation (lost 38
GID over 55,000 miles or about a GID per 1447 miles) is still pencils out to over 100,000 miles....
if we calculate his time to VLB he will have about 85,000 miles which i think is NOT RIGHT. i "have" to think his GID count to full is currently higher than the 243.
so, now you got it. what is wrong with the math here?
well, he "should" be getting at least 7% loss of capacity due to cold weather (at least that is what i am seeing...more like 10%) which is the part that seems to be missing.
now, i drove from Seattle to Tumwater this afternoon and unfortunately the weather did not cooperate (it was sunny) so i have to say my driving 65 miles and only using 162 GID has to be tossed as not typical. add to that a 10-15 mile crawl between 10-30 mph messing things up as well but i wanted to see how my pack compared to a trip of similar length...the test failed
the morning drive which was dark and foggy only used 194 GID for 63 miles but also stuck in traffic