On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 16:36:26 UTC+1, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 10:33:20 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:55:39 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote:

So what sort of driver is it aimed at long distance ?
but can only do 215 miles.....

Wage slave commuters.

With a new battery! What mileage can it achieve on a single charge
when
the battery is a 1 or 2 years old?

Lots of people here rabbiting on with zero knowledge.
My car is 2012, any battery deterioration is undetectable.

How many miles has it done? Since mid 2012 I've done about 55,000
miles.
Which is over 250 full charge discharge cycles at 215 miles/charge.
Far more actaual charge events would happen in reality.

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Cheers
Dave.

It has only done 15,000 miles.
I use it locally, for long distances/more comfort, I use my other car.

So you need 2 cars.


Full discharges never happen.

Well that's a relief.

The chances of being marooned are too great.
I have only twice run it to less than 10% charge remaining.
Usually it is only run to 75% remaining. Or thereabouts.

For me this would be considered a cost, in that not being sure I could get to where I was going. I don;t own a car but when friend go anywhere they never seem to worry whethe ror not they;ll havce enough petrol to get where they are going just whethe they have enough to go to the nearest or prefered garage.


It's hard to pre-assess your range on a new route, there are so many factors.
I use Google Earth to get the mileage and check hills etc on an OS map.
I can usually get within 10% but it's dodgy on extreme range journeys.

I can understand that and with petrol or diesel it's hardly a problem a friend has a similar problem with LPG.


Even wind and temperature make a difference (which only matters on extreme range.)
And cab heater use can **** things up altogether. Could knock 25% off total range.
It does have electrically heated seats which uses less.

You can improve range by cunning driving/route selection.

But all these things concern people when choosing a car or any product hopefuly they'll get much better range and charging speed then more will consider them as viable options.