timbop
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I'm going to disagree here: absolute range applies if you do the unthinkable in practical terms: drain the battery to 0%. So, any time you want to compute how far you can go in between chargers, you've go to first compute the percentage of that max range first, and then to figure out your costs you have to further know how many kilowatts "100%" is. Since many manufacturers hide that, you have to guess on costs.I wish the EPA would just give us a range number using that, instead of diluting it with so much low speed data and coming up with a 48 MPH average which is woefully slow as a "highway" number.
If they averaged, say, 60, 70, and 80, I'd be fine with that as a reasonable highway speed.
IMHO both range and mi/kwh are useful, because you can then easily compute in real terms how far you can practically go, and how much that trip will cost. You can then also easily predict what your home charging costs will be based on your weekly commute, etc. The inverse number of kwh/100mi is a little silly, particularly since it is counter intuitive to MPG that we're used to: a lower kwh/mi number is better.
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