4d ago

Want to know how far your new EV can actually go? Take 10–20% off its claimed range

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Probably knock a bit more off if you need to use a heater or air conditioning.
This is basically the same idea is acknowledging that mpg estimates are based on optimal conditions and real world conditions are frequently a bit lower.
- Agreed. On ICE vehicles, the difference is not as drastical though, because the conversion of dino corpse to moving tires is much more inefficient.
  
  *plant and marine organisms.
  
  Every car I have ever owned lost 20% mpg or more on hot and cold days when the AC or heater were working hard.
Isn't it just easier to see what your car does on miles/kilometers per kWh on highway/city vs temp? For my bolt I know I get 4 miles/kWh in summer highway and 2 mi/kWh in winter highway. On highway that's 130 to 260 miles on highway 100% to 0% battery. 247 miles was the advertised range.
If I were hyper-mile-ing, I have seen as high as 15 mi/kWh (window cracked, no HVAC, warm weather, 35 mph). So theoretically 975 miles range in my testing. I'm trying to find the test someone did in a Bolt that did, iirc, around 1200 mile range.

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