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Is that 30+ mile EV range legit?

2.7K views 7 replies 7 participants last post by  pocholin  
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.