Arvind
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Thanks! The best I have managed so far is 4.5 mi/kwh. Good to know more efficiency is possible.
You really have to drive like an old lady, and keep your maximum speed (even on highway/freeway) to about 53 MPH in order to get to the 5.7 miles/kwh I have. If that doesn't suit your temperament, or you don't feel it will be safe on the roads you frequent, don't worry about it.Arvind said:Thanks! The best I have managed so far is 4.5 mi/kwh. Good to know more efficiency is possible.
Arvind said:Thanks! The best I have managed so far is 4.5 mi/kwh. Good to know more efficiency is possible.
that might work for you but here in my little slice of FLA that wouldn't work well, first off 50 MPH is the minimum and while 53 mph is above that it is my experience that even driving at the 65 MPH limit is still slow, I get passed by almost every other car on the road.Stoaty said:You really have to drive like an old lady, and keep your maximum speed (even on highway/freeway) to about 53 MPH
apvbguy said:that might work for you but here in my little slice of FLA that wouldn't work well, first off 50 MPH is the minimum and while 53 mph is above that it is my experience that even driving at the 65 MPH limit is still slow, I get passed by almost every other car on the road.Stoaty said:You really have to drive like an old lady, and keep your maximum speed (even on highway/freeway) to about 53 MPH
FWIW: it appears that I am at an average of 4.6 kwh
Stoaty said:You really have to drive like an old lady, and keep your maximum speed (even on highway/freeway) to about 53 MPH in order to get to the 5.7 miles/kwh I have. If that doesn't suit your temperament, or you don't feel it will be safe on the roads you frequent, don't worry about it.
surfingslovak said:Assaf, you can't multiply the rated battery capacity with the energy economy figure from the dash. It doesn't work that way. The EPA test measures energy from the wall, and by extension the wall-to-wheels efficiency. They could care less about any dash indicators.
There are differing ways to handle defogging with differing associated costs. Have you looked at some of the threads here on that topic? Try searching for "defog". Here is one of many: Keep your car de-fogged without using the heaterAssaf said:In the cool/rainy season, i.e. over half the year here, we discovered that we need to use the fan/AC intermittently just to defog the windshield. It keeps refogging every couple of minutes. That definitely bit into efficiency.
Surfingslovak wasn't referring to MPGe either; that number is quite useless.Assaf said:I wasn't referring to their MPGe numbers. The EPA range for the 2012 Leaf is 73 miles from 100% charge. That's an average over all types of real-life drives they took with actual cars.
You can't assume 24 kWh since part of the battery is blocked from use to protect it. For a new LEAF a bit over 22 kWh can be used but 21 to 21½ kWh is a better number since few want to venture below VLBW and many try to avoid LBW, although that isn't necessary. The battery drops in capacity as it ages so those numbers will go down.Assuming it's a full 24kWh at 100%, divide 73 by 24 and you'll get 3.04 m/kWh. If the 100% charge is a bit less (probably), you get close to what we're seeing which is 3.2-3.3.
I think blocking traffic is the height of rudeness. If you're in the HOV or other single-lane situation, then you should do the speed limit rather than give your fellow drivers the "I am more important than YOU, you lower lifeform". That kind of behavior reminds me of a frat boy or sorority girl (elitist and stuck up snobs).thankyouOB said:for my 7 - 10 miles in the HOV lanes I go around 55-60. The car in front of me often gets far ahead, but invariably on this section of the 405 I catch up to him/her as the road always clogs up.... That is not to say that folks behind me arent stacking up or, as sometimes happens, passing me, but I almost and I do me pretty much almost always, catch up to them. I know some of them are not cool with this, but maybe they will learn. :roll: yeah, right.
theaveng said:I think blocking traffic is the height of rudeness. If you're in the HOV or other single-lane situation, then you should do the speed limit rather than give your fellow drivers the "I am more important than YOU, you lower lifeform". That kind of behavior reminds me of a frat boy or sorority girl (elitist and stuck up snobs).thankyouOB said:for my 7 - 10 miles in the HOV lanes I go around 55-60. The car in front of me often gets far ahead, but invariably on this section of the 405 I catch up to him/her as the road always clogs up.... That is not to say that folks behind me arent stacking up or, as sometimes happens, passing me, but I almost and I do me pretty much almost always, catch up to them. I know some of them are not cool with this, but maybe they will learn. :roll: yeah, right.
If you read his quote, he is giving other drivers the message "You aren't going to get there any faster if I speed up." He is not preventing other drivers from getting to their destination sooner, the traffic is doing that job. Lose the attitude. Note to self: add to Foes list.theaveng said:I think blocking traffic is the height of rudeness. If you're in the HOV or other single-lane situation, then you should do the speed limit rather than give your fellow drivers the "I am more important than YOU, you lower lifeform". That kind of behavior reminds me of a frat boy or sorority girl (elitist and stuck up snobs).thankyouOB said:for my 7 - 10 miles in the HOV lanes I go around 55-60. The car in front of me often gets far ahead, but invariably on this section of the 405 I catch up to him/her as the road always clogs up.... That is not to say that folks behind me arent stacking up or, as sometimes happens, passing me, but I almost and I do me pretty much almost always, catch up to them. I know some of them are not cool with this, but maybe they will learn. :roll: yeah, right.
When will ICE drivers learn this??? :?: :?: :?:Stoaty said:If you read his quote, he is giving other drivers the message "You aren't going to get there any faster if I speed up." He is not preventing other drivers from getting to their destination sooner, the traffic is doing that job.
Stoaty said:If you read his quote, he is giving other drivers the message "You aren't going to get there any faster if I speed up." He is not preventing other drivers from getting to their destination sooner, the traffic is doing that job. Lose the attitude. Note to self: add to Foes list.theaveng said:I think blocking traffic is the height of rudeness. If you're in the HOV or other single-lane situation, then you should do the speed limit rather than give your fellow drivers the "I am more important than YOU, you lower lifeform". That kind of behavior reminds me of a frat boy or sorority girl (elitist and stuck up snobs).thankyouOB said:for my 7 - 10 miles in the HOV lanes I go around 55-60. The car in front of me often gets far ahead, but invariably on this section of the 405 I catch up to him/her as the road always clogs up.... That is not to say that folks behind me arent stacking up or, as sometimes happens, passing me, but I almost and I do me pretty much almost always, catch up to them. I know some of them are not cool with this, but maybe they will learn. :roll: yeah, right.
This is the "spirited" or "performance" driving that some so enjoy. It is the antithesis of efficient driving or hypermiling.TimLee said:When will ICE drivers learn this??? :?: :?: :?:
In the past 12 months, and less than 7,000 miles of driving, there must have been at least 40 occasions in which some idiot driving an ICE raced around me on the right (occasionally on the left) as I was properly slowing down for a traffic light that was going to be be red for at least 1 minute. All 40 of these idiots accomplished NOTHING.
When will people learn :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
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