2 long distance trips: 1,586 miles later

[EVCheese]

TL;DR the Mach-E is comfortable and efficient, charging network on the highways was fine. If you get to 80% SOC you can go about 120 miles and have a 30 mile buffer (Standard Range battery pack).

After my last trip I wanted to get some more real-world data. I've now covered about 1,586 miles of long-distance highway driving, 13 stops, and spent almost 5 hours charging on public chargers. I now know a few things given my car (standard range 70 kWh):

# people in car	Climate system on?	Weather?	Big hills?	Average miles per kWh
2	yes	cool	yes	2.8
1	yes	cool	yes	3.5
1	sometimes	nice	no	3.2

Some other interesting things:

• On the highways, out of 34 hours of driving I only had 30 minutes of DCFC waiting. At malls, I have ended up waiting 25 mins for a charger to open up.
• If you're back-of-the-napkin calculating driving w/ more people in the car (but the weather is nice) it's probably about 2.5 mi/kWh, if you're driving solo it's closer to 3.0 mi/kWh.
• DCFC stations tend to give about 110 kW for a few minutes, then like 80 kW for a few more, then usually settle down into the 50-75 kW range up until 80% battery. Practically that means for every minute of charging I was adding about 4 miles range per minute.

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[Jeremy stones 121]

Thanks for the review

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