Every EV-owner I've met has tried to tell me "it never gets old". It did get super old the moment it dropped below freezing here. 1.1kWh/mi on a few trips and I'm hoping for warmer weather like I never have in years past.
For people without heated seats, the average seems to be closer to 1.3 mi/kwh in the cold. This is the number I use when planning my drives now. So I'd say 1.6 Lariat/Platinum and 1.3 Pro/XLT are the most common responses to "what's your winter range?" Though I too have seen as low as 1.1 mi/kwh when making stop and go trips around town with shorter drives.
Here is what my Lightning has done up the hill about 37 miles 4000 ft elevation gain with 28 degree temp and ave 67 Mph When I said 1.3 kWh/mile, that is when I took the turnoff to town. I gained a bit in the last 4 milesHave no real complaints. I knew it would be an electron hog. Yesterday coming up the hill to Mammoth Lakes, which is the ski resort here in California had probably the worst combination of weather, elevation, and speed. I drove 40 miles from Bishop to mammoth lakes and it’s an elevation gain from 4100 feet to a little over 8100 feet in approximately 40 miles. I was driving with a warmed up cabin, kept an average speed of about 67 miles an hour and the temperature varied between 26 and 40°.
I used 1.3 miles/ kW. In retrospect my mileage since the truck was new after almost 5000 miles is on spec. My average for that time which includes a lot of highway driving and not too much cold weather so far is 2.3 miles/ kW. Biggest problem is the electric charger infrastructure which still sucks. Just make sure you don’t let SOC get low and charge more often. I’m used to a Tesla for the last five years and I never had to think about it. With CCS charging, you have to overthink it because on average between 25% and 50% of the Electrify America chargers will actually work at any given time and I’ve even had times where none worked. Just enjoy the truck and stop reading this
