Is anyone getting more miles per charge? I had it for 3 years and it seems im getting more as it it gets older?

[Calvin H-C]

The Lightning heater pulls 10kW at times.

I'm not surprised. When I said 5 kW, I was thinking of the FFE's heater, so double the power needed for the Lightning is understandable. Still, with an SR battery of 98 kWh, that's almost triple the capacity of the FFE's 34 kWh battery, so the percentage affect is greater on the FFE.

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[xwing]

I would agree, I think the efficency is getting better. I don't use Trip 1 or 2 for trips, but I do use them to track how many miles per KW I'm using. Each year on my delivery anniversary I reset trip 1. Year 1 got 2.3 miles per KW. Year two got 2.4 miles per KW. My delivery anniversary is Jan. 5 where I will reset again. Trip 2 is since delivery and at last look I was at 2.3 miles per KW. I have 33K miles on my truck with a mixture of local and hwy.

 

[RickLightning]

That's rounding...

2.34 is 2.3. 2.35 is 2.4.

 

[jjupi91897]

You're not getting more miles per charge. When you charge, you're getting kilowatts of electricity, stored in your battery, which has 131kWh of storage, less any degradation during your ownership. The range shown is a GUESSTIMATE, based on your past driving. If you want that number to go even higher, simply drive 25mph for a few hundred miles. If you want to show that it's a useless number, get on the highway and drive 75mph for 3 hours and see what it works out to.

A USEFUL number is stored in the trip odometers, i.e. Trip 1 and Trip 2, which shows you the miles per kilowatt hour that you have been achieving since the last reset. Since you have been driving slow, your efficiency will be higher than those that don't drive slow. My lifetime is 1.8 or so, which works out to a range of 236 with the ER battery, going about 73mph in various climates and topography.

The weather temperature plays a part also. You get less estimate with colder temperatures.

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