Lowest Wh/mi challenge

[airborne spoon]

Figured I'd make a fun little game with the Tesla Regen system.
What is the lowest Wh/mi you have ever gotten? No prize or anything just bragging rights

Rules is it has to be on the setting for "last 30 miles".

Because when it's set to last 5 or 15 miles it's pretty easy to get crazy high numbers on a little gopher mound of a hill. Besides last 30 is a more accurate measurement anyway so it should be the one used by default.

So my entry, is this one at -45Wh/mi I got this going down the Carson pass in California.

 

[WesB]

I know this doesn't count since it's just for the past 10 km, but I think it's the lowest I've ever had. -37 Wh/km is -59.5 Wh/mi.
It was also in freezing temperatures (easily below 0F).
Pretty cool how the car didn't consume any energy at all in the last 5 km, and instead generated over half a kWh of energy.

 

[BrownOuttaSpec]

Just got -220 kWh/mi over 5 miles this past weekend, the 15 mile average was decent too but no where near that low. 30 mile is a lot harder to accomplish, good job on the -45 over that mileage.

 

[MichaelJava95]

The best 30 mile I did was around 180-190 Wh/mi. Some of it highway, some of it city. I am a new tesla owner though.

 

[airborne spoon]

Just got -220 kWh/mi over 5 miles this past weekend, the 15 mile average was decent too but no where near that low. 30 mile is a lot harder to accomplish, good job on the -45 over that mileage.

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I'm surprised people have it on last 5 miles. It's not very accurate of your driving habits at such a small sample size.
Like yesterday I drove down a small hill to work and I changed from last 30 to last 5 and went from 310 avg to -197 avg. Just because this tiny little hill that was 4 miles long.

 

[dgpcolorado]

This is about the best I can do close to home. Anything significantly lower would require a road trip.

It's not flat around here!

 

[wdolson]

A few years ago someone posted their Wh/Mi coming down the big volcano on the Island of Hawaii. It was something like -250.

 

[dgpcolorado]

A few years ago someone posted their Wh/Mi coming down the big volcano on the Island of Hawaii. It was something like -250.

That's @Polly Wog going down 10,000 foot Haleakala on Maui:

Maximum Regen - Can Someone Top This?

I've posted a few times about how much regenerative energy I get in my Model S when I descend Haleakala here on Maui, but today I gained a bit more than normal. During the 35 mile drive from the summit (10,000 feet elevation) to the point where the road essentially flattens out (about 100 feet...

teslamotorsclub.com

-287 Wh/mile over 30 miles and -268 Wh/mile for 35.1 miles is one reported trip. There aren't any mountains or roads in other states that can come close to that elevation drop in that short a distance.

 

[FatherTo1]

Haleakala...brings back memories. Amazing to be literally above the clouds and catch the sunset. It was a fun descent back down but we were in an ICE rental. Must have been a trip to travel down the mountain in an EV.

 

[PatrickCH4313]

Same last year, heading Chur in Switzerland (August 2020)

 

[Tony8489]

My best is -19 Wh/mile for 33 miles descending from Mt. Wilson a net 5,000 feet to my home in Glendale. But the last 10 miles of that is freeway plus about a 400 foot climb to my house. I always gain ~15 rated miles descending from Mt. Baldy or the Angeles Crest to the L.A. Basin. I'll have to check the Wh/mile on one of those drives sometime.

I agree Haleakala is a best case scenario and I can't think of anyplace in the lower 48 that could match it for a descent by road.

 

[irish26]

Wow. I was expecting to see people posting in the low 200s. Living in Florida we don’t get many of these mountain regen trips. My best is probably 265 lol

 

[wdolson]

There are some steep mountains in the west. I think 13,000 ft elevation is the highest in Colorado. There are some roads in Oregon that get above 5000 ft. I think one goes to about 10,000.

 

[dgpcolorado]

There are some steep mountains in the west. I think 13,000 ft elevation is the highest in Colorado. There are some roads in Oregon that get above 5000 ft. I think one goes to about 10,000.

We have two (of more than 50) mountains over 14,000 feet (called "fourteeners" here) with roads to the top: Mount Evans and Pikes Peak. The problem is that the rest of the state is so high that those mountains don't stand out as much as Haleakala on Maui. The lowest elevation in Colorado is 3315 feet but it is near the border with Kansas and Nebraska, more than 200 miles from either mountain peak with a road to the top.

Sea level rise won't be affecting Colorado anytime soon...

 

[wdolson]

We have two (of more than 50) mountains over 14,000 feet (called "fourteeners" here) with roads to the top: Mount Evans and Pikes Peak. The problem is that the rest of the state is so high that those mountains don't stand out as much as Haleakala on Maui. The lowest elevation in Colorado is 3315 feet but it is near the border with Kansas and Nebraska, more than 200 miles from either mountain peak with a road to the top.

Sea level rise won't be affecting Colorado anytime soon...

There is a road that goes from near sea level at the Columbia River to 6000 ft on Mt Hood (Timberline Lodge) in a relatively short drive, though I think it's about 40 miles. I believe Timberline Lodge to Sandy, OR is about 30 miles. Sandy is about 1000 ft.

Mt Adams is also close to the river, but I don't think there are any roads that go up all that far on that mountain.

Volcanoes are a good bet if you're trying to get quick elevation changes.

 

[dgpcolorado]

There is a road that goes from near sea level at the Columbia River to 6000 ft on Mt Hood (Timberline Lodge) in a relatively short drive, though I think it's about 40 miles. I believe Timberline Lodge to Sandy, OR is about 30 miles. Sandy is about 1000 ft.

Mt Adams is also close to the river, but I don't think there are any roads that go up all that far on that mountain.

Volcanoes are a good bet if you're trying to get quick elevation changes.

8000 feet is about the best we can do over 30 miles in Colorado and, perhaps, anywhere else in the Lower 48:

My San Juan Mountains are fairly rugged and high profile, but there are no roads to the top of the fourteeners here:

Part of the San Juan Mountains, including Mt. Sneffels, from Inspiration Point on Log Hill Mesa, eleven miles away.

 

[airborne spoon]

8000 feet is about the best we can do over 30 miles in Colorado and, perhaps, anywhere else in the Lower 48:
My San Juan Mountains are fairly rugged and high profile, but there are no roads to the top of the fourteeners here:

In California we also have two fourteeners which I've hiked one (Shasta) there is no roads to anything but the base of either. But that is up north and south central of the state, this is just an area where i grew up near Tahoe.
i just did a rough waypoint maker since i couldn't totally figure out that site but its a damn cool looking graph. I could do better but i didn't wanna hold up traffic trying not to use the throttle to coast over a few small hills.

 

[dgpcolorado]

^ I tried to figure out if it would be possible to drive from a high altitude in California to Death Valley but the roads just aren't all that high and it is a long way from the mountain passes to Death Valley. The trick is to cram a big descent into 30 miles!

 

[wdolson]

^ I tried to figure out if it would be possible to drive from a high altitude in California to Death Valley but the roads just aren't all that high and it is a long way from the mountain passes to Death Valley. The trick is to cram a big descent into 30 miles!

The Salton Sea also gets below sea level, but it's even further from any mountains.

The Pike's Peak descent is probably one of the best drops in North America. It's probably why they have the hill climb contest there every year. It's a real challenge both from engineering and driving to climb that peak.

The 6000 feet at Timberline Lodge is probably the highest I've ever been and I really felt the altitude there. It must be pretty intense at Pike's Peak. In aircraft they usually go on oxygen around 10,000 feet.

 

[Polly Wog]

That's @Polly Wog going down 10,000 foot Haleakala on Maui:

Maximum Regen - Can Someone Top This?

I've posted a few times about how much regenerative energy I get in my Model S when I descend Haleakala here on Maui, but today I gained a bit more than normal. During the 35 mile drive from the summit (10,000 feet elevation) to the point where the road essentially flattens out (about 100 feet...

teslamotorsclub.com

-287 Wh/mile over 30 miles and -268 Wh/mile for 35.1 miles is one reported trip. There aren't any mountains or roads in other states that can come close to that elevation drop in that short a distance.

Thanks for the mention, @dgpcolorado! I still haven't seen anybody post anything close to my "unofficial" record of -287 wh/mi over 30 miles, but I think if anybody has a chance, it might be on the Big Island descending from the top of Mauna Kea and heading towards Kona.