Any Chance Any EV Owners Could Give Some Real World Power Usage Statistics? (2014, batteries)
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So, let me leave you with this little bit of useless information.
Where I'm located (you can see above) it takes 6 solar panels to support 1 Tesla that travels 70 miles per day.
Each of these solar panels generates 375W, btw.
Not useless at all.
How would that be being achieved? As in, is it charging a household battery to then by inverter charge the car at other times, or is it almost direct?
Are they fixed solar panels, or do they have solar tracking?
EV range is highly dependent on driving style, road conditions, and climate. I actually discover that driving in the rain is very good, low resistant when you don't have to stop much the range increases.
However, it sucks driving in bad traffic range will drop if you have AC running and even using the screen alot the Tesla cameras are also a power drain.
Spirited or aggressive driving yields the worst range as expected. If I a regularly drive over 70mph the range gets only about 60% advertised range.
I did improve range when I swap out big 20" wheels for 19" on Model Y so I really think big wheels needs to go away because it's such a range killer.
However, it sucks driving in bad traffic range will drop if you have AC running and even using the screen alot the Tesla cameras are also a power drain.
Hmmm. This is opposite when everyone else with an EV experiences. Traffic can maintain or even increase range from what you had going into the heavy traffic area. I see this regularly on my trips up or down I95 through the Cross Bronx Expressway into lower CT. I can have 110 miles of range left when entering NY from CT and still have 110 miles left when I get across the GWB onto the NJ Turnpike.
I’ve gone the entire length of the Van Wyck, and most of the Belt towards Staten Island in bumper to bumper traffic with my AC blasting and only seen 3% come off the clock.
Amusing thing I've witnessed - is the "always cooling" Tesla. As in, you're in the office working, I park next to you, and I can hear your air conditioner running. Keeping that car comfy til lunch or 5pm.
Mentally, I just picture a guy shoveling coal into a furnace to make the electricity that is now running your air conditioner. In an effort to conserve energy - we've actually created a way to use more, while polluting more at the same time.
Amusing thing I've witnessed - is the "always cooling" Tesla. As in, you're in the office working, I park next to you, and I can hear your air conditioner running. Keeping that car comfy til lunch or 5pm.
Mentally, I just picture a guy shoveling coal into a furnace to make the electricity that is now running your air conditioner. In an effort to conserve energy - we've actually created a way to use more, while polluting more at the same time.
Do you mentally picture that this something all Teslas do or do you think its someone who left a feature on? Genuinely curious as I usually learn new things here since non-EV owners always know more about EVs than those who own them.
Hmmm. This is opposite when everyone else with an EV experiences. Traffic can maintain or even increase range from what you had going into the heavy traffic area. I see this regularly on my trips up or down I95 through the Cross Bronx Expressway into lower CT. I can have 110 miles of range left when entering NY from CT and still have 110 miles left when I get across the GWB onto the NJ Turnpike.
Sounds like you stay in your lane and cruise. I'm constantly changing lanes, this past weekend's traffic was horrendous up and down NY and NJ. Probably the worst drivers are all out due to the weather and parade.
Sounds like you say in your lane and cruise. I'm constantly changing lanes, this past weekend's traffic was horrendous up and down NY and NJ. Probably the worst drivers are all out due to the weather and parade.
Then it's your driving style that's sapping range, as is expected in an EV, not the traffic.
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