EV cars - real world range

[XTR2Turbo]

Please record here your real world experience of EV range under different driving conditions.

[adamfawsitt]

Citroen C-Zero 60 - 72 miles - towards lower end of scale when used on motorway or in cold weather.

[isleofthorns]

First gen leaf - 50m in low temps, 70m optimum ... I live in a very hilly area, so may be better in other areas

[c2mike]

isleofthorns said:

First gen leaf - 50m in low temps, 70m optimum ... I live in a very hilly area, so may be better in other areas

Same experience with mine. Low temps = below around 5 degrees. Cold weather (especially with heater on), hills and motorway speeds all suck range.

[Amateurish]

Ampera: 30-40 miles

[ftyl]

Tesla Model S: 180-210miles.

Driving from Brussels to Cologne and back with a short charge in the middle while having dinner, so 15mi city/125mi highway each way... keeping speed around 65mph-75mph on the highway.

[Synchromesh]

Watching

[cjm_2007]

2013 Nissan Leaf: 77 miles with 23% remaining.

This was a mixture of A roads and motorway driving (no faster than 60 mph on the motorway). And on the A roads I was 'making progress'.

Oh for the luxury and carefree life of Model S ownership.....

[CitigoGTR]

2013 LEAF.

Best 105 miles. (eco driving)
Worse 49 miles. (fast, rain, heavy headwind)

[RossP]

This is at least 10 miles more than I've seen before. A result of the higher temperatures?

[Turbodiesel1976]

^^ That is cool

[c2mike]

RossP said:

This is at least 10 miles more than I've seen before. A result of the higher temperatures?

Almost certainly is the better weather. How realistic is the i3 range gauge? Leaf is usually wildly optimistic...

[XTR2Turbo]

2013 leaf.

Best realistic range seems to be about 95 miles based on motorway cruising in traffic at around 55 - 60mph

Hold 70mph and it drops to about 65 miles

David

[Gryph]

2013 i3 BEV - I tend to switch between comfort and eco pro (with eco pro climate disabled!) and return a pretty consistent 75-80 miles. The right foot may be a little twitchy, but on the other hand I've got the regen braking down to a fine art!

[Greg_D]

i've only had mine a couple of days so i am still driving like a lunatic - the surge of acceleration is quite shocking sometimes, around town the throttle response and instant power makes anything but the most hairy chested of cars seem flaccid - i'm still getting the equivalent of 70 miles/charge and i can't think of many ways of making it worse

[Welshbeef]

How many extra units of electric do you see used on your house meter/have you tried to work out the actual cost of each charge or the average charge cost rather than what the blogs or brochure states?

[RossP]

According to my Chargemaster login I've used 400kwh of leccy since 1st March on charging.

In that time I've done over 1,600 miles.

[Zoon]

RossP said:

According to my Chargemaster login I've used 400kwh of leccy since 1st March on charging.

In that time I've done over 1,600 miles.

So roughly £60 in electric for 1600 miles. Not bad at all.

[Carparticus]

Zoon said:

RossP said:

According to my Chargemaster login I've used 400kwh of leccy since 1st March on charging.


In that time I've done over 1,600 miles.

So roughly £60 in electric for 1600 miles. Not bad at all.

That's assuming day time charging of around £0.15 / KwH, and therefore about 3.75p/mile.

Most EVs get topped up at night using off-peak leccy costing around £0.06 / KwH, which means the cost is probably nearer 1.5p / mile.

To put that into perspective:- £6.50 buys a gallon of petrol giving around 20-40 miles in an ICE car .. or it can buy 430 miles worth of electricity.



Then there's the concept of charging for free for 25 yrs with solar from an off-grid property, as opposed to on-grid solar with FITS payments which effectively pays you 5p/mile to drive, but rubs up the anti-everything brigade !!

Edited by Carparticus on Friday 4th April 12:10

[Amateurish]

You can get 10p/kWh for standard rate electricity if you shop around. So about £2 per charge for your Leaf / i3 / Zoe.