In April I will have owned my SR+ for 4 years and unless I'm going on a long trip I charge to 80-90%. I've taken it on a few trips up the coast to Monterey and down to San Diego and it did rather well. However, over the last year or so, it's been losing miles with each charge. I'm heading out of town tomorrow and so last night I charged to 100% and I got...
Drum roll, please....
Yeppers, out of 240, I get a whopping 213 kw miles. But wait, there's more....
Now, that said, if I could really get 213, I could make it one way, charge at the destination hotel, drive around, visit friends, charge again, and drive home. But unfortunately, as many of you know, that 213 isn't anywhere near accurate. History tells me (yeah, I've kept a spreadsheet since it was delivered up updated it while I commuted to/from work in SoCal including vacation trips), that the best I can hope for is ~142 miles (I need 175). How do I come up with 142? Well my spreadsheet tells me kwm versus actual miles driven and gives me a consumption rate. Including vacation trips, I have consumed approximately 1.4 kwm to 1.6 kwm for every actual mile I drive, or 133 to 152 miles. Things like HVAC running, hills, highway speeds, wind, etc. impact the consumption rate. So I took the mid point at 1.5 to calculate the approximate miles I would get on this trip (213÷1.5=142), even at 1.4, I would only get 152 actual miles.
So my gripe? Well my car is under 4 years old and there's only 13.5k on the ODO, I just think I should be getting more range at this point. I have tried a couple of the useless methods for recalibrating the battery. In fact, the ranger that came out earlier this week to replace the 12v battery (yeah I griped at him too) told me to do the same thing, i.e., run it below 10% and then up to 100%, which I've tried in the past with no appreciable success.
Ok, please don't tell me to sell it, I like the car, I just wish it would deliver more miles per charge. I don't think that's an unreasonable request either.
At this point the Tesla is going to get some sleep this weekend as we'll be taking our ICE vehicle.
Flak jacket on...
Drum roll, please....
Yeppers, out of 240, I get a whopping 213 kw miles. But wait, there's more....
Now, that said, if I could really get 213, I could make it one way, charge at the destination hotel, drive around, visit friends, charge again, and drive home. But unfortunately, as many of you know, that 213 isn't anywhere near accurate. History tells me (yeah, I've kept a spreadsheet since it was delivered up updated it while I commuted to/from work in SoCal including vacation trips), that the best I can hope for is ~142 miles (I need 175). How do I come up with 142? Well my spreadsheet tells me kwm versus actual miles driven and gives me a consumption rate. Including vacation trips, I have consumed approximately 1.4 kwm to 1.6 kwm for every actual mile I drive, or 133 to 152 miles. Things like HVAC running, hills, highway speeds, wind, etc. impact the consumption rate. So I took the mid point at 1.5 to calculate the approximate miles I would get on this trip (213÷1.5=142), even at 1.4, I would only get 152 actual miles.
So my gripe? Well my car is under 4 years old and there's only 13.5k on the ODO, I just think I should be getting more range at this point. I have tried a couple of the useless methods for recalibrating the battery. In fact, the ranger that came out earlier this week to replace the 12v battery (yeah I griped at him too) told me to do the same thing, i.e., run it below 10% and then up to 100%, which I've tried in the past with no appreciable success.
Ok, please don't tell me to sell it, I like the car, I just wish it would deliver more miles per charge. I don't think that's an unreasonable request either.
At this point the Tesla is going to get some sleep this weekend as we'll be taking our ICE vehicle.
Flak jacket on...