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Is that 30+ mile EV range legit?

2.7K views 7 replies 7 participants last post by  pocholin  
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And what happens when you run that battery all the way down?

 
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I drove a little over 34 miles on all electric yesterday. I ran it until there was 0 miles of range left on electric and it went about another mile then switched to gas. I was very pleased. I had it on cruise for about half those electric miles where the speed limit was 50-55. The road was rolling with a couple good sized hill climbs. I was very easy on the throttle and never punched it. It's impressive how smooth the transition the gas is. I really like checking the Eco-Score on the app. I actually find it pretty useful to see how my driving affects the way the car behaves. I'm probably in the minority, but I enjoy a slow, easy going car ride more than a sporty, white knuckle ride. My wife is the race car driver out of the pair of us.
 

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I don't have level 2 charging available. I charged with 110v during the day over the weekend so I could monitor the outlet and charger to see how warm they got. I set the charge level to 4 and I think it took a little over 10 hours from 2% to fully charged. I don't have a dedicated circuit for charging so I wanted to make sure I wasn't drawing too much power on that circuit. I messed with the charge settings to see how that would change the time and it was over 14 hours on Level 1 and between 8-9 hours on Level 5. The outlet was just noticeably warm to the touch on Level 4. The charger was warmer, as I expect there's some sort of regulator in the box? We'll probably get level 2 in the near future as I imagine most of our future vehicles will need to be charged to some degree.
 
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I've played around with battery mileage extensively and it's quite dependent on your type of driving.
How fast you accelerate, sustained high speeds, little deceleration or braking will all reduce your battery mileage. The only way to recharge the battery while driving is coasting or braking so I've found you get better battery mileage with in town driving. Slower speeds, lots of coasting and braking really help.

As far as charging a battery at 0 miles using a level 1 charge I've found 14-18 hrs on average for a full recharge. At this point I don't have my level 2 charger installed but I understand this will reduce the time to 2-3 hrs.

From what I have read a level 2 charger is the maximum the Tonale will accept and there's no 80% charge involved with that like a supercharger.

I'm now playing with how many mpg I can get per gallon of gas for a full tank trying to use electric power as much as possible. I've been charging every night when I get home and currently the car is telling me I'm up to 57 mpg. I'm just driving in N mode as well. Still have 2/3 of a tank indicated.

I'm already long winded but my driving in D, manual shifting for 2 weeks also resulted in some interesting results.

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