I went out to blow off some charge today and got some figures for 75mph and for 65mph.
First some observations:
1) It is VERY difficult to maintain a steady 75mph on LA freeways, at ANY time during daytime hours.
2) There is not much rhyme or reason as to why you appear to get more out of one bar than you do over another. Because speed is a constant, I guess it has to be the terrain if it's not random. So what I've tried to do is average over 3 or more bars.
3) I got more out of a bar at 65mph that I expected. Since I normally drive to work at 65mph, I've been seeing the results of that more than I have driving home (so top of the pack vs. bottom of the pack) and have been getting less (more like 6.5 miles to a bar). It's almost like it could be the bars at the top of the pack yield fewer miles than those at the bottom of the pack, and it may be necessary to reverse this experiment to make sure that's not so. Any opinions on that hypothesis?
So here are my figures:
75mph - 5 miles per bar
65mph - 7.5 miles per bar
Hate to be "that guy" but I told you guys ages ago that I thought the difference between the two was greater than 20%, and nobody bought into it!
BTW, did we decide that each bar represented ~2kW? Because I saw another thread where the poster was talking about 2.9kW per bar?
First some observations:
1) It is VERY difficult to maintain a steady 75mph on LA freeways, at ANY time during daytime hours.
2) There is not much rhyme or reason as to why you appear to get more out of one bar than you do over another. Because speed is a constant, I guess it has to be the terrain if it's not random. So what I've tried to do is average over 3 or more bars.
3) I got more out of a bar at 65mph that I expected. Since I normally drive to work at 65mph, I've been seeing the results of that more than I have driving home (so top of the pack vs. bottom of the pack) and have been getting less (more like 6.5 miles to a bar). It's almost like it could be the bars at the top of the pack yield fewer miles than those at the bottom of the pack, and it may be necessary to reverse this experiment to make sure that's not so. Any opinions on that hypothesis?
So here are my figures:
75mph - 5 miles per bar
65mph - 7.5 miles per bar
Hate to be "that guy" but I told you guys ages ago that I thought the difference between the two was greater than 20%, and nobody bought into it!
BTW, did we decide that each bar represented ~2kW? Because I saw another thread where the poster was talking about 2.9kW per bar?