EV Range of your car and from what % usage battery are you claiming it?

Rolled into Birdhill last year on -3% and into Ballacolla last month on -1%.

No panic either time. If that was Mahon Point I'd be squirming a bit for sure.

I've got good results from Regen on a hilly B road. Turn it off on the motorway. In urban driving I leave it on I've got used to the nearly one pedal driving.

Really should be the efficiency unit..you know your battery size so can easily calculate expected range. How did the kwh/100km catch on? Legacy from the ICE days?

Here's real life story from last week: I had to do a 500 km return trip on our i3 94Ah on Friday. Admittedly, I'm a over 10 year veteran of road tripping on EVs so not a noob by any means.

I started with less than full battery, which was kind of a rookie mistake, but it is what it is. Just meant I needed a charging session earlier than was ideal but there were loads of chargers on route so that was not a problem. The well used i3 seem do about 140km at 105km/h indicated (102km/h real speed) on wet weather conditions when the temperature is below 10 degC. The car has a pretty good size buffer below 0% indicated, unlike the old Nissan LEAFs I'm also used to, so I had almost no range anxiety when arriving at -2% SoC at Barrack Obama Plaza where I had already charged earlier that day so was pretty certain I won't have issues charging while at the same time having no way to go somewhere else. I absolutely needed to charge.

I had earlier charged to 96% at BOP, had 140 km return trip to my destination and back to BOP. The car claimed I had a 20 km buffer after setting off but based on the previous knowledge I guessed the buffer would be less in reality. I also had to "cold start" at my intermediate destination, which uses some extra juice. Anyway, throughout the journey as long as you keep the distance to empty at above the distance to charger figure from GPS you are good to go, and you can always reduce the speed if it looks like it's getting a bit too close for comfort.

So basically once you know your car's capabilities, and have more than one working charger on the final or intermediate destination, you can absolutely use the 100-0 as the range. The cars usually have a subtle way to indicate accurately when the end of the battery really is near, usually there is some sort of diminishing maximum power indication and one that goes down to near the end the turtle mode is imminent and then you can start to panic if you are more than 1km away from the charger :-) On the longer range EVs on road trips there is absolutely no reason to live dangerously. Usually if you have already covered say 400km on that charge you (well me at least) welcome a break at a charger.

lol.

I think in our house it's more like immersion tank per shower..😁

Or even simpler, 60 kWh battery car does 5km per Kwh, 300 kms approx range.. why divide and multiply when you can just multiply

Doesn't really matter what you use, as long as all manufacturers use the same so will be easy for comparison.

Tesla use Wh/km which is basically the same as kWh/100kms, just a decimal point change. Think they also use km/Wh if you so wish.

Could have sworn that you could change to km/Wh but just went out to check car and doesn't appear that you can.

2020 model 3 performance.

Left Belfast on Saturday night at 100% state of charge. Weather was non stop rain and 7 degrees. Drove non stop at 110kmh until Dublin airport then around 90kmh on the m50 to Dundrum. Collected kids from a birthday party then headed for portobello. Dropped 2 off there then back to Rathmines. Had 37% battery left.

Forget what the efficiency figure was but I worked out in percentage terms that I would have roughly 320 - 330 KMS range from 100 to zero.

I was. Fairly good for an almost 500bhp car!!

When asked what range I get, I just say 'it depends'. The simple truth is I don't know. I've never tried testing it out and since it is well enough for my needs, I don't really care. Thus, if pressed further, I just say the brochure range and then qualify it with, but you won't get that. Personally, I've no real interest in getting into range focused conversations as there are far too many variables.

When I'm in a conversation with someone who is genuinely interested in buying an EV, I focus the conversation on driving profile and the importance of getting a car that fits your profile without being annoyingly inconvenient. My profile is:

More than 90% of my daily usage falls in the 80% » 20% (in fact that vast majority would be 80% » ~ 50%).

~5% of my usage I charge to 100% beforehand but does not require en-route charging.

~2-3% of my usage requires en-route charging.

In 3 years of EV driving with more than 60k covered, only once did I arrive home at less that 10%, and that was a very respectable 8%. I'm on my second EV, and I could have bought one with more range but all that would be doing is pushing down my 2-3% figure to maybe 1-2%. Thus, once it was above my threshold, more range was not really a consideration.

Buying to suit my profile and inconvenience tolerances, completely eliminated range anxiety and that's why I don't really care what my range figure actually is. Charging anxiety is another matter. But I charge at home ~97% of the time and I know, or will research, what my charging options are.