Lightning Real World Range -- What's Yours?

alanack · Aug 28, 2022

What kind of range is everyone getting........
1100 miles done.
Range calculating at 371

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Roy2001 · Aug 28, 2022

You must drive a lot in town.

RickLightning · Aug 28, 2022

Many years ago, people compared mainframe computers via MIPS - Millions of Instructions Per Second. It was also called Meaningless Indicator of Performance...

Take how many miles per kWh you are achieving and multiply it by the size of your battery. If you have the 131 kWh battery, and your range is 369, you should be around 2.8kW/mile assuming the ER battery. That's pretty high - you're doing a lot of city driving.

Or, the range is reflecting your more recent driving. What does Trip 2 show if it hasn't been reset since purchase?

Artificial Intelligence · Aug 31, 2022

I'm consistently getting around 250... lariat SR.

LightningShow · Sep 1, 2022

My app usually says 280-300 for 100% charge. Most of my recent driving has been highway. Probably >80% of all miles on the truck are highway because a large portion of the miles were from a road trip. My typical ratio is probably more like 60/40 hwy/city. Before I left on the 1600 mile roadtrip I had ~500 miles on the truck. Up to that point, my avg efficiency was 2.4mpk and the range at 100% charge said 321 miles. That's the highest I've seen.

gorwell · Sep 1, 2022

For Standard Range:

If charging to 100%, I'm getting EPA @ 230 with ~70% freeway driving at this point and in 100F heat, AC more than half of the time.

If all I did was drive in the morning @ 70F and no AC, I would probably see ~260 on a full charge.

I've been using ABRP to calibrate its Consumption, and right now I am at 2.27 @ 65mph.

Note my "freeway" driving is usually the speed of traffic, which can be anywhere between 40-80mph.

Typical Freeway drive (including getting on and off freeway)

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Efficiency for that drive:

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RickLightning · Sep 1, 2022

Keep in mind that the range shown is a guess. It uses recent driving history and predicts. If overnight the temp drops to 40 degrees, that number will drop. Then, if the temp rises during the day to 70, and you check again, it will go up.

Best estimate of range is knowing your miles per kWh, and the size of your battery. I get 2.9 - 3.0 miles per kWh driving 75 on the highway with my Mach-E. 91 x 3 = 273 in warm weather. In winter, take off 30 - 40%.

IF, on the other hand, I only drive locally, I will get much more range, but I really don't pay attention to that because I don't need it. I've seen 3.5 miles per kWh.

Right now, I'm testing "intelligent range" on my Mach-E. Car says 225 at 90%, i.e. 250 at 100%. As I've just shown, that's inaccurate.

Lightning math works the same.

jredondox · Sep 1, 2022

i am at 280 or so 100% sometimes i get 300 if i go 60 on the freeway

RickLightning said:
Best estimate of range is knowing your miles per kWh, and the size of your battery. I get 2.9 - 3.0 miles per kWh driving 75 on the highway. 91 x 3 = 273 in warm weather. In winter, take off 30 - 40%.

I don't know about going 75 and getting 2.9... once these trucks go past 60-65 it drops to low 2ish

RickLightning · Sep 1, 2022

jredondox said:
i am at 280 or so 100% sometimes i get 300 if i go 60 on the freeway

I don't know about going 75 and getting 2.9... once these trucks go past 60-65 it drops to low 2ish

Sorry, forgot to mention that's with my Mach-E. Edited post.

jredondox · Sep 1, 2022

RickLightning said:
Sorry, forgot to mention that's with my Mach-E. Edited post.

LOL now I believe you... I got a mach e too

LightningShow · Sep 2, 2022

I took a 175 mile round trip today to drop the stepkid off at college. I used 55% of the battery, my math says that's about 320 for the full battery. The trip was about half state hwy (45-60mph) and half divided highway (65-80mph). All of my experience with the truck tells me 320 miles is a reasonable estimate for range under good conditions.

Trick · Sep 2, 2022

RickLightning said:
Keep in mind that the range shown is a guess. It uses recent driving history and predicts. If overnight the temp drops to 40 degrees, that number will drop. Then, if the temp rises during the day to 70, and you check again, it will go up.

Best estimate of range is knowing your miles per kWh, and the size of your battery. I get 2.9 - 3.0 miles per kWh driving 75 on the highway with my Mach-E. 91 x 3 = 273 in warm weather. In winter, take off 30 - 40%.

IF, on the other hand, I only drive locally, I will get much more range, but I really don't pay attention to that because I don't need it. I've seen 3.5 miles per kWh.

Right now, I'm testing "intelligent range" on my Mach-E. Car says 225 at 90%, i.e. 250 at 100%. As I've just shown, that's inaccurate.

Lightning math works the same.

Agree, please post your miles per kWh average.

Slohry · Sep 2, 2022

Lariat w/extended battery.
It's been unseasonably warm here, (108° now) and I'm averaging 269 to 298 miles on 100% charge. My problem isn't the truck but keeping my foot out of it.

hturnerfamily · Sep 2, 2022

1,200 miles.... 1.3 towing 3.000lb camper, 2.6 truck alone

Yellow Buddy · Sep 6, 2022

SR Pro here, my range is infinite.

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