ftmaybe
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Again, it's all a game and how you play. Some people think it is too much work, sometimes it isn't worth it for all kinds of reasons.
I did a "game" for years and years driving my PHEV to try and conserve what little battery I had available to me. However - once my wife got her Tesla and there was plenty of battery available, I started skipping my "game" route when driving to work.
If I take surface streets to work instead of the freeway, in the Tesla I save 20% of the energy. 20 percent is great, of course. However, it takes longer .. and also, the total energy saved is about 1kw. Which costs me only 13 cents. So ..... I could take longer to get to work while stopping repeatedly for stoplights to save 13 cents, or I could just cruise to work on freeway and not worry about the extra 13 cents.
Years of the "game" is a hard habit to break though, I still tend to be as efficient as is reasonable when driving the Tesla. I did experiment with trying to "coast" by fiddling with the accelerator but again, while I did get some much better numbers as far as wh/mile, the economics never made it worth the bother.