Hills? I've got your hills right here!

[efusco]

Took a 75+ mile round trip from my home in Nixa, Mo to Branson, Mo through the Ozark Mountains tonight on Hwy. 65 which has a posted 65mph speed limit that I drove at a pretty steady 75, climbing to about 85 on the downhill runs to take advantage of gravity tonight. ~37F outside and I averaged about 380Wh/mi and used about 30kWh of battery on the trip. My entire family of 5 was in the car running the climate control at 68F.

Here's a sample of the energy screen on the trip down.

2012-12-27 16.13.05 by efusco, on Flickr

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[AnOutsider]

That's pretty impressive Evan. I've also learned to just regen to make up for heavy usage. Gotta pass someone or chug a hill? Regen it back!

 

[dlmorgan999]

That makes me feel better, as I live on a hill (and go over another one on my daily commute) and I've been wondering what kind of hit I would take to average Wh/mi. Thanks for the post!

 

[SCW-Greg]

That makes me feel better, as I live on a hill (and go over another one on my daily commute) and I've been wondering what kind of hit I would take to average Wh/mi. Thanks for the post!

Dave checkout this regen range coming down Weir. The regen is extremely powerful, will slow you to a near stop if you let it...

 

[efusco]

Dave checkout this regen range coming down Weir. The regen is extremely powerful, will slow you to a near stop if you let it...
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That's cheating using the 5 mi graph! LOL! I had so much off the chart on my drive yesterday that I had to extend to the 15 mile graph just to keep the peaks and valleys on the screen!

 

[dlmorgan999]

Dave checkout this regen range coming down Weir. The regen is extremely powerful, will slow you to a near stop if you let it...
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I was also thinking about that. On my drive to work over 175th, I always have to use the brakes coming down the hill. The regen will actually save a good deal of brake wear for me!

BTW - whose car was that screenshot from Greg? I thought you didn't have yours yet?

 

[SCW-Greg]

I was also thinking about that. On my drive to work over 175th, I always have to use the brakes coming down the hill. The regen will actually save a good deal of brake wear for me!

BTW - whose car was that screenshot from Greg? I thought you didn't have yours yet?

The brown perf. Michael from the store was kind enough to give me test drive home and back, since I live so close, plus he wanted to know how it would handle on this steep hill too. But shhhh, keep it quiet, as I don't think they want to offer those kind of drives to everyone.

 

[NigelM]

But shhhh, keep it quiet, as I don't think they want to offer those kind of drives to everyone.

You do know that this is a public forum, right? :wink:

 

[SCW-Greg]

You do know that this is a public forum, right? :wink:

Yeah I've tried to keep it under wraps until now. But you could call it the TMC advantage too.