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Range question
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deonb
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Look at your wh/mile:
200 : you drive slow enough to drive Miss Daisy.
300 : around average - this is where you'll get rated miles.
400 : you're a maniac, like the rest of us.
500 : you're a maniac that should be locked up.
600 : brianman? Is that you???
200 : you drive slow enough to drive Miss Daisy.
300 : around average - this is where you'll get rated miles.
400 : you're a maniac, like the rest of us.
500 : you're a maniac that should be locked up.
600 : brianman? Is that you???
Hi, @talk2bilal , why don't you post a photo of your trip computer screen in the instrument cluster (IC)? That would tell how much energy you are using. Also, do you do many short trips? Somehow in the beginning of a trip, Model S uses so much energy. So making many short trips, you would get like half range.
fallen888
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fallen888
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Thanks, capitan obvious. I was trying to make a joke based on most Americans' understanding that fuel implies gas/petrol. Party pooper!
@talk2bilal , it seems in the last 30 miles you averaged 350Wh/m which is reasonable. Other screenshots indicate over 400Wh/m, do these consist of multiple short trips?
Yeah, the short trips over a few days is going to make your range look terrible. When I first leave my garage, and in the first half mile or so, my energy usage is sometimes about 800 wh/mile. It settles out into that 300-ish range within the first mile or two, so on longer drives, it's not going to be like you're talking about, getting only half of the rated miles.
But we should add that it doesn't matter what the range looks like with multiple short trips, because by definition they are SHORT trips. Plug in when you get home again and you'll be fine. Where range matters is on long trips.
The range ratings are based off continuously driving the car steady state for that number of miles. It does not factor in warming up, climate control / battery thermal control bringing temperatures to range, etc etc etc.
It doesn't seem too abnormal for someone who, say, commutes 15 miles per day, to see an effective range that's 1/2 or 2/3 of the rated range. On a hot summer day I can see 3 miles disappear before I even pull out of the parking lot…. yet on a long trip I can easily be around 10% of the EPA rating.
As others have said it's nothing different from gas cars. My Audi A6 laughably told me 450 miles every time I filled up. I was lucky to break 250.
It doesn't seem too abnormal for someone who, say, commutes 15 miles per day, to see an effective range that's 1/2 or 2/3 of the rated range. On a hot summer day I can see 3 miles disappear before I even pull out of the parking lot…. yet on a long trip I can easily be around 10% of the EPA rating.
As others have said it's nothing different from gas cars. My Audi A6 laughably told me 450 miles every time I filled up. I was lucky to break 250.
Exactly. People get freaked out with seeing these worst case scenarios, but it's in cases where it doesn't matter.
We have a drive of about 2 miles to work. It will sometimes use up 6 or more rated miles to do that if there is some heat or A/C use or defrosting ice off the windows and heating the battery some.
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