mkjayakumar
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after 17 months of ownership (and I guess around 5 months sitting in the dealer lot from Sept through Feb, 2011), after 18,800 miles lost my first capacity bar at 232 Gids at 100% charge.
My Gids have been falling like a rock from 252 to 232 in a span of last 6 weeks, and so have the temps been rising from a high of 78 to 99 today. Since I got the Gid meter in Feb this year, I have been getting a steady 252 Gids through March, April, May and then from June it has been steadily falling almost every other day.
Have been charging to 80% or less for the first 10K miles and then 100% every workday for the next 8K miles. I am squeezing every electron that is available using all plausible hyper mileage techniques to get through my 68 miles commute, of which 55 are highway miles.
My Gids have been falling like a rock from 252 to 232 in a span of last 6 weeks, and so have the temps been rising from a high of 78 to 99 today. Since I got the Gid meter in Feb this year, I have been getting a steady 252 Gids through March, April, May and then from June it has been steadily falling almost every other day.
Have been charging to 80% or less for the first 10K miles and then 100% every workday for the next 8K miles. I am squeezing every electron that is available using all plausible hyper mileage techniques to get through my 68 miles commute, of which 55 are highway miles.
) I have finally received my new battery. I could have sooner but chose to wait as long as possible to maximize my ROI on the first battery and ensure I get the latest chemistry. I had to leave town hours after taking possession so no 100% charge numbers yet, but at the dealer I read 270 gids on a 89.8% SOC. Assuming full charge gets me to 96% that should be 288 or so gids! Oddly, the pack voltage was 393.9V which prior to the swap was what I saw on a full charge so maybe the SOC reading was off. Once I get back I'll find out. Maybe I will finally get my 281! Other details from the sample are: 99.8 HX; 100% SOH; 66.14 AH.
