by RegGuheert (Posted Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:15:36 GMT)
Can you please tell us what your car reported for mi/kWh for the runs on June 17, 2012, and on yesterday's run (August 31, 2012)? Also, do you think those efficiencies reflect reality? For instance, you mentioned being at 48 PSI yesterday. What was the tire pressure last June? TIA!
dgpcolorado wrote:
Third 100 mile trip:
I decided to see if I could get 100 miles with my 10% degraded battery (about 59.60 Ah to start, 59.45 Ah this morning) by extending a routine grocery/movie/recycle center run to the "big city". I had to work at it and I managed 101.2 miles. LBW was at 81.5 miles and VLBW was at 100.0 miles, which was also the low Gid reading of 24. Ended with 25 Gids. [I don't want to risk going much below VLBW because I have a bad cell-pair that is 20-30 mV lower than the others and I worry that it might cause my car to shut down prematurely.]
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The trip involved more than 3000 cumulative feet of elevation gain with a low of 5400' and a high of 8000' for a net gain of 2600'. I also did more than sixteen miles on dirt roads and had the headlights on for the last forty miles. Starting temperature was 73ºF, high temperature was mid 80s, and ending temperature was 56ºF. Highest speed was 60 mph but the average was, necessarily, much lower than that.
Very impressive, particularly with the 2600' elevation gain!I decided to see if I could get 100 miles with my 10% degraded battery (about 59.60 Ah to start, 59.45 Ah this morning) by extending a routine grocery/movie/recycle center run to the "big city". I had to work at it and I managed 101.2 miles. LBW was at 81.5 miles and VLBW was at 100.0 miles, which was also the low Gid reading of 24. Ended with 25 Gids. [I don't want to risk going much below VLBW because I have a bad cell-pair that is 20-30 mV lower than the others and I worry that it might cause my car to shut down prematurely.]
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The trip involved more than 3000 cumulative feet of elevation gain with a low of 5400' and a high of 8000' for a net gain of 2600'. I also did more than sixteen miles on dirt roads and had the headlights on for the last forty miles. Starting temperature was 73ºF, high temperature was mid 80s, and ending temperature was 56ºF. Highest speed was 60 mph but the average was, necessarily, much lower than that.
edatoakrun wrote:
The 113.3 miles trip yesterday did (just barely) beat own my previous record on ~the same route, of 112.7 miles (also driving at close to the slowest speeds practicable) posted June 17 2012, on p 40 of this thread, but it was not very satisfying.
Very impressive, Ed!Can you please tell us what your car reported for mi/kWh for the runs on June 17, 2012, and on yesterday's run (August 31, 2012)? Also, do you think those efficiencies reflect reality? For instance, you mentioned being at 48 PSI yesterday. What was the tire pressure last June? TIA!