by philipscoggins (Posted Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:13:26 GMT)
Yes, from my understanding. When the battery degrades from 21kwh usable to 20kwh usable & you charge to 100% your meter will still show 100%.
In one view it will be at 100% charge, but if that 100% only takes you 65 miles instead of the 75 miles you used to get, what's the usefulness of that? I like a gid meter. It has shown me a lot about the battery's true state of charge, energy usage & what a joke the guess o meter really is. It also relieved any of my misplaced range anxiety. Now,sometimes I do push my range & then I know how many gids/mile I'm using & if I need to slow down a little to make it to my destination or find a place to charge.
Philip
Yes, from my understanding. When the battery degrades from 21kwh usable to 20kwh usable & you charge to 100% your meter will still show 100%.
In one view it will be at 100% charge, but if that 100% only takes you 65 miles instead of the 75 miles you used to get, what's the usefulness of that? I like a gid meter. It has shown me a lot about the battery's true state of charge, energy usage & what a joke the guess o meter really is. It also relieved any of my misplaced range anxiety. Now,sometimes I do push my range & then I know how many gids/mile I'm using & if I need to slow down a little to make it to my destination or find a place to charge.
Philip