Is the lithium phosphate battery that much more resilient? Maybe that's why i see high 2's and low 3's all the time while others are stuck in the 1's. And my commute is on state roads where 55 is the limit, and i keep it below 60. No interstate highways, and very low stress in the pre-dawn...
Thu 10 Apr 7:05 am just arrived at work. 51.5 miles, *2.80 mi/kWh*, 18 kWh. It just reached 28F. This is typical for me, I'm not trying. Why are our numbers so different?
Okay, sorry for taking so long to reply. I've owned the R1T (it's not a truck or a car, though it can tow a 30-foot Airstream!) since December, put almost 10,000 miles on it.
What I was saying before is that kWh are a unit of work. Net work done on any closed circuit is zero, except for...
9%, 36 battery mi and 10kWh to get home, 25 actual mi.
25/36 seems useful to me. My range is down just under 1/3 from ambient 70F, though ive not yet driven it when it was that warm out. It was 19F when i left, 15F when I arrived.
Also 9% of my battery got me 25 mi, so my range is approx 11 x...
FWIW, its -2F this morning on NH. I just did 25 mi to work with the heat at 61F in snow mode. Forgot to do heated seat or steering wheel, it was a 35 to 50 mph ride the whole way, no traffic because it's early. Used 10% / 47 mi of the battery, range started 273 (66%), ended 226 (56%). Battery...