Recently almost all charging has been in the 60% to 80% area, the 85 pack was due for a range charge and seeing as we had a free day it was a good opportunity to get a few questions answered.
Question 1. What has been the loss of usable capacity?
Question 2. How far can this car go on a charge? This is a question we get asked constantly from many different people, it's hard to explain that it's not that important, and will be less important when fast chargers are common place across the country, we normally give an answer of 400-420kms if we needed to go that far, as a matter of interest during yesterday's trip we passed through 4 different locations with fast chargers, in the South West it's just not necessary to use the full battery capacity.
Driving conditions were excellent yesterday, warm and dry, fairly flat terrain, mostly smooth surface, lots of holiday traffic but flowing smoothly, highest speeds 105kmh but lots of 80-90 around the outskirts of built up areas.
To be honest if we drove the coastal road North of Perth getting 400kms would be hard work, the course road surface and relentless wind takes its toll on energy consumption.
Anyway the answer to Q1 is a 3.7% loss of useable capacity after 69,000kms.
Q2. When next asked how far we can go on a charge we can honestly say 452kms with the airconditioner switched on.
Question 1. What has been the loss of usable capacity?
Question 2. How far can this car go on a charge? This is a question we get asked constantly from many different people, it's hard to explain that it's not that important, and will be less important when fast chargers are common place across the country, we normally give an answer of 400-420kms if we needed to go that far, as a matter of interest during yesterday's trip we passed through 4 different locations with fast chargers, in the South West it's just not necessary to use the full battery capacity.
Driving conditions were excellent yesterday, warm and dry, fairly flat terrain, mostly smooth surface, lots of holiday traffic but flowing smoothly, highest speeds 105kmh but lots of 80-90 around the outskirts of built up areas.
To be honest if we drove the coastal road North of Perth getting 400kms would be hard work, the course road surface and relentless wind takes its toll on energy consumption.
Anyway the answer to Q1 is a 3.7% loss of useable capacity after 69,000kms.
Q2. When next asked how far we can go on a charge we can honestly say 452kms with the airconditioner switched on.