Because I was at a public charger, charging was significantly slower at higher percentage, and I was already going to get home pretty late on a week night. Was trying to get home before 10pm, I ended up making it back a little after.
For the record, it was estimating I had 200 miles of range...
FWIW I think it uses identical battery cells. The different battery cells comes from the different level battery packs.
(Unless I'm mistaken.)
Anyway, no use in continuing to beat a dead horse. It seems like I need to decide if I'm going to throw more money into different tires to see if that...
Also last night did the return leg of one of my trips, 30 degrees, charged to 85%. I averaged 1.4m/kwh until I finally slowed down and drafted a semi, at which point I was able to get 1.8m/kwh at 69mph drafting for about 40 miles.
I made it home with 4% SOC. Averaged 1.5m/kwh on the total...
I would only be considering a dual motor, and potentially a max pack because of my need for highway distance driving.
Even with your quad-motor, though, it seems like the high speed open highway driving is a significant difference. And dual-motor should be moreso, even without max pack...
This is so much more helpful than the people saying "Just drive 65mph." Thank you.
My tires say to keep them at 36psi cold, but I've been at ~44psi. I don't know if I want to go much higher than that, given how low the recommended pressure is. (It says max pressure is 50psi).
I will try the...
To be clear, I like virtually everything else about the Lightning, and I like it *a lot*. It's just important to note how different a tone the EV evangelists take with people considering EVs to begin with. It's like they don't realize the needs and use-cases of many people.
Many of us have to...
If you can't even go 200 miles without going 15mph slower than the flow of traffic, then you are not "only" missing a reliable charging network. You are a fundamentally inferior technology for a very basic and (at least where I live) common use-case for vehicles.
EV proponents make fun of...
I definitely don't get 2m/kwh at 70mph. More like 1.8.
At 75 I get 1.5 or 1.6.
I don't go 80 (in ICE vehicles I always go 80 on the highway, so I'm already making a speed concession.)
I'm not doing anything crazy. I minimize cabin heating, rely mostly on seat climate controls (and even...
Yeah I understood from the 2.0 and 1.8 m/kwh math that you charged, likely somewhere in the middle.
Those numbers are so much better than mine, though. If I was getting that efficiency, I would be content.
As it is on my ~160 mile trip (so 320 round trip) I'm barely making it with a charge in...
That anyone could see this as anything other than awful is baffling to me.
To use my $80k truck, I have to drive 15mph slower on my route and even then part of the year it's dubious.
Maybe I'm the idiot, but I consumed a good amount of Lightning content before making my purchase, and I did NOT...
I *wish* my Lightning was that bad!
I'm getting 205-230 to a charge... 100 to 0!
(I haven't actually fully drained a battery. I'm just doing the math.)