Larry Paul
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- First Name
- Larry
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- Southern California
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- MME-GTPE, Sunbeam Tiger w1970 Boss302, 2002Rav4EV
My goal is to keep the car for the next two decades and that includes with this battery alive with a minimum of degradation for 20 years (like I have with our Rav4EV with a 20 year old battery pack that still has 80% of the pack capacity from when it was new). The charger that I typically use will deliver a maximum of 7.2kWh, but sometimes a slower charger is used. So far, I have logged every mile the car has driven and every charger session (I have charged 79 times since May) as I am really trying to figure out what the car can actually do, at least when it is new.
Since I got the car in early May, in the first 3350 miles I never have charged over 85% and typically it is in the 70-80% SOC range when I start the day. The lowest I have pulled it down was 32% SOC. I do enjoy occasional spirited driving, but most of the time my Mach E GT Performance is used for traffic speed mellow(ish) commuting around the greater LA area. I drive close to a mix of 50% freeway/50% city driving. My average seems to be in the range of 3.5-3.7M/KWh average (110-124MPGe) for our daily use so far (but the range does vary from 2.8-4.4 and even higher or lower at times). I have found that driving it with the AC running is more efficient than with the windows down (due to aerodynamic drag), so I almost always drive with the AC on now.
At 80% after a couple of months of use my GOM reports the SOC is range is reporting it to typically be 206-220 miles (at an 80% charge). With that extrapolated out that is 258-278 miles at 100% SOC (although once I think I saw 232 miles translateing it to 291). When I have charged to 85% (that reports at 84% when I start the car) I have seen up to 242 miles. That translates to 288 miles of range-at least according to the GOM.
Last week I took a trip to San Diego from LA. I did charge to 90% SOC for the first time before I left. The car reported 256 miles of range at 90%. Extrapolated out, that is 284 miles of range at 100%.
On the drive down we had to make a 22 minute stop and I gained 2% SOC on a slow L2 charger (from 82-84%).
That evening I was at 46% SOC in San Diego. I stopped at an EVGO station and charged for 23 minutes at an average rate of 70kWh and stopped charging at 75% SOC ($7.70). That was enough for me to arrive at the house at 25% SOC at the end of the journey. This was my first time using a CCS charging system even after 23 years and 338K+ miles of EV driving.
So in total over the 26 hour trip, we drove 258 miles and I used a sum total 86kWh or about 95% of the pack capacity. I did mellow accelerations on the trip, but I drove at at freeway speeds for most of the driving with some city driving. I had 4 adults in the car and the AC on and the range projected for this drive on a full pack was 272 miles, or about 12 miles more than Ford stated it would have for range (the GTPE is rated at 260 miles of range).
I know that if I had a CA RT1 RWD only I could have had even more range, but this road trip showed that the car got an average of 3.0M/KWh or 100MPGe and I was not inconvenienced in stopping for 23 minutes of charging (would have been 24 minutes if I had not stopped on the way down). Not bad for a car that is also capable of pulling mid 12 second 1/4 mile times and 0-60 in the mid to upper 3 second range.
Driving styles and ambient conditions do impact range, but I am VERY happy with our GTPE.
Since I got the car in early May, in the first 3350 miles I never have charged over 85% and typically it is in the 70-80% SOC range when I start the day. The lowest I have pulled it down was 32% SOC. I do enjoy occasional spirited driving, but most of the time my Mach E GT Performance is used for traffic speed mellow(ish) commuting around the greater LA area. I drive close to a mix of 50% freeway/50% city driving. My average seems to be in the range of 3.5-3.7M/KWh average (110-124MPGe) for our daily use so far (but the range does vary from 2.8-4.4 and even higher or lower at times). I have found that driving it with the AC running is more efficient than with the windows down (due to aerodynamic drag), so I almost always drive with the AC on now.
At 80% after a couple of months of use my GOM reports the SOC is range is reporting it to typically be 206-220 miles (at an 80% charge). With that extrapolated out that is 258-278 miles at 100% SOC (although once I think I saw 232 miles translateing it to 291). When I have charged to 85% (that reports at 84% when I start the car) I have seen up to 242 miles. That translates to 288 miles of range-at least according to the GOM.
Last week I took a trip to San Diego from LA. I did charge to 90% SOC for the first time before I left. The car reported 256 miles of range at 90%. Extrapolated out, that is 284 miles of range at 100%.
On the drive down we had to make a 22 minute stop and I gained 2% SOC on a slow L2 charger (from 82-84%).
That evening I was at 46% SOC in San Diego. I stopped at an EVGO station and charged for 23 minutes at an average rate of 70kWh and stopped charging at 75% SOC ($7.70). That was enough for me to arrive at the house at 25% SOC at the end of the journey. This was my first time using a CCS charging system even after 23 years and 338K+ miles of EV driving.
So in total over the 26 hour trip, we drove 258 miles and I used a sum total 86kWh or about 95% of the pack capacity. I did mellow accelerations on the trip, but I drove at at freeway speeds for most of the driving with some city driving. I had 4 adults in the car and the AC on and the range projected for this drive on a full pack was 272 miles, or about 12 miles more than Ford stated it would have for range (the GTPE is rated at 260 miles of range).
I know that if I had a CA RT1 RWD only I could have had even more range, but this road trip showed that the car got an average of 3.0M/KWh or 100MPGe and I was not inconvenienced in stopping for 23 minutes of charging (would have been 24 minutes if I had not stopped on the way down). Not bad for a car that is also capable of pulling mid 12 second 1/4 mile times and 0-60 in the mid to upper 3 second range.
Driving styles and ambient conditions do impact range, but I am VERY happy with our GTPE.
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