Model S owners what's your current real world range?

[gangzoom]

Seem to be a few Model S owners on here now!! Just wondered what kind of range you guys are seeing in the current weather?? My Leaf had been able to do 90-100 miles in summer to sometimes now struggling to even manage 60 miles . Just wanted to know how winter weather is affecting the real world range on the S.

Edited by gangzoom on Wednesday 17th February 08:07

[Lozrington]

Obviously depends upon how you drive, but typically anywhere between 200 and 250 real world range over winter in my models 90D.

[Lgm50]

With outside temperatures ranging from -2 to +10C and with a full charge - then anything around 200 miles is about what I get with the P90D on minor and A roads where there is a fair amount of stop/start and acceleration/deceleration driving. At a nice steady speed on the motorway it will give more like 250 miles.

I'm sure it would do more, but I don't hang about and also quite like having the heated seats on, heater on, stereo loud, and at this time of year headlights, wipers etc.

I'm hoping for a 10% to with fingers crossed, perhaps as much 15% improvement in range once the outside temperature is nearer 20C although I don't know if that's too much to hope for as I've only had the car since the start of the year!

[ukshooter]

I've done 30,000 miles in 13 months. I work on an average of 180 miles of range to be on the safe side. Can stretch beyond 200 with cruise set around 70mph.

[gangzoom]

ukshooter said:

I've done 30,000 miles in 13 months. I work on an average of 180 miles of range to be on the safe side. Can stretch beyond 200 with cruise set around 70mph.

What SOC do you recharge at?

[EricE]

Lgm50 said:

then anything around 200 miles is about what I get with the P90D on minor and A roads where there is a fair amount of stop/start and acceleration/deceleration driving. At a nice steady speed on the motorway it will give more like 250 miles.

I'm surprised. I would have expected it to be the other way around with recuperation during braking.

[Lgm50]

I was surprised too, expected more from the re-gen (which is on max setting), but car seems at its best in terms of power usage at steady speed at motorway limit. Anything much faster than that and range drops off a fair amount.

[Lgm50]

I was surprised too, expected more from the re-gen (which is on max setting), but car seems at its best in terms of power usage at steady speed at motorway limit. Anything much faster than that and range drops off a fair amount.

[oop north]

I understand that regeneration is not all that efficient - ie, there are significant losses from deceleration and then acceleration compared to steady speed driving (based on comments from i3 owners who seem to understand technical stuff). That probably explains it. Plus I think some heat is generated when you accelerate so here are some losses going on there, too

[Mike_C]

My P85+ (RWD, single motor) says it will do 235 miles from a full charge at this time of year. I usually charge to around 80-90% to preserve battery life, which gives around 215 miles. I tend to charge up every night if doing anything over 50 mile journeys each day, simply because you should try and keep the battery between 50% and 80% charge to prolong battery life. So I've rarely run it low.

In my experience,it's best to plug it in every night when you get home - that way you wake up with a full charge every morning, and it keeps the battery in the 'sweet spot' in terms of SOC

Having said that, we were in my friends' Model S 85 at the weekend and had an interesting experience: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[ukshooter]

gangzoom said:

What SOC do you recharge at?

Not sure what SOC is. I mainly use the supercharger network, Reading or West Drayton are the ones I use most, or the ecotricity charges on the motorways with a Chademo adapter for faster charging.