$4/gallon is cheap. We’re around $5 last time I looked. I haven’t looked in a while. ?
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$5 a gallon gas is cheap.$4/gallon is cheap. We’re around $5 last time I looked. I haven’t looked in a while. ?
This may just be rampant rationalization is support of what I want to do anyway, but I find ticking along at or near the speed limit puts me into a lot of situations that could be avoided with a little additional speed. I'm thinking of the blocks of traffic that set up around a few 18-wheelers, or a campervan, or a college student in a UHaul where you get a little knot of traffic. I try to get past those quickly, then drift in the space between knots. You have to go faster than the knot behind, but slow enough to maximize your time in pocket. I find +8 over limit is a decent average benchmark. Saving 8 minutes on a 60 mile drive doesn't count for much, but not getting stuck in 5 slow moving wreckfests does.
Leave a car at each end, and you'll always have a freshly charged MME for the drive!I learned to stop watching it and just drive.. If you need to drive close to 300 miles a day then a EV might not be the best car for you to choose from. Unless you want to go with the Lucid Airs which are about the price of two MEs
I'm not even retired and I find the same thing. I leave a bit earlier, pop on my music or my podcast or my book and enjoy the ride.
I live in CO and drive in the mountains with temps in teens to below 0 and experience 2.2-2.5 m/kw at highway speeds of 70-75 while going up 4000 feet with heater on in the mid 60s, seat and steering wheel heating. I drive in unbridled with one pedal with adaptive cruise on. I get well over a 100 miles on about 40% charge. I suggest checking your tire pressure and alignment.
I hear what everyone is saying about driving slower but is the reason you are driving slower to get better range or because you actually like to drive slow?
I started driving slower long before I got the Mustang and not because I wanted to increase range. First it became a habit while towing because high speeds while towing is just stupid and I was being stupid until I got a little scare. Then I started to find I was far more relaxed at the end of the drive, so I started driving slower even when I wasn't towing. Then I extended that to pretty much every vehicle, including even my motorcycles.
I don't have a lot of semis bearing down on me on the freeways on this side of the country. Usually they're not doing much more than 70 mph. Not sure if they're less regulated in your area or if something else is going on there. Maybe it's the mountains here? I don't know. Even with my cruise set at 70 I'm mostly passing semis.
https://www.automotive-fleet.com/driver-care/239354/driver-care-how-speeding-affects-accident-impact
That said, the biggest scare I ever got was on a Midwest highway where I was doing around 80 while towing and some dude with a bigger trailer and a bigger truck passed me at a very high relative speed. The pressure drop between our trailers caused both trailers to pull in toward each other and we both almost lost control. That's when I learned and decided that 70 mph while towing was fast and possibly too fast for most conditions.
I’ve kept records from day 1 with an excel file. To date I’ve driven 16,652 miles and used 4,801.57 kWhs. That figures out to 3.47 miles per kWh. First, I’m old and never been out of Whisper mode. Don’t commute, just drive wherever. I drive the freeways in Southern California at 72 mph. Been on two long trips LA to Laughlin. One way, Barstow to Laughlin it’s against the wind and I’m getting 2.1 miles per kWh. Bottom line, the slower you drive the further the Mach e will go. Recently, I drove 140 miles on 35.3 kWh which is 3.98 miles per.
