Nubo
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Ingineer said:I'll see your paltry 145 and raise you to 888,000 miles! (k-miles)
-Phil
I like how it's using and generating power at the same time. You must have mounted a windmill to the hood! :lol:
Ingineer said:I'll see your paltry 145 and raise you to 888,000 miles! (k-miles)
-Phil
And the battery must be on fire (12 bars) after going that fast (188 mph)...Nubo said:Ingineer said:I like how it's using and generating power at the same time. You must have mounted a windmill to the hood! :lol:
And wouldn't it be nice if the NAV system would consider elevation changes. That is, look at a couple of routes, with and without major elevation changes, and then report which uses less energy. The user could then opt for the shorter, or the cheapest energy wise, or whatever.LakeLeaf said:Maybe some day the computer will be able to figure in altitude changes, traffic, wind, weather, and the phase of the moon and come up with a more accurate prediction. Currently, the algorithm seems to be a bit primitive.
ebill3 said:And wouldn't it be nice if the NAV system would consider elevation changes. That is, look at a couple of routes, with and without major elevation changes, and then report which uses less energy. The user could then opt for the shorter, or the cheapest energy wise, or whatever.LakeLeaf said:Maybe some day the computer will be able to figure in altitude changes, traffic, wind, weather, and the phase of the moon and come up with a more accurate prediction. Currently, the algorithm seems to be a bit primitive.
Bill
N1ghtrider said:My latest 105 mile-plus achievement took me 4 days, commuting 10 miles each way to work and then with various errands througout the week. I am not going to plug in the charger when I have several bars left unless I have a long trip planned for the next day.
TomT said:Why? I always plug in and charge to 80 percent just in case... Battery life is based on cumulative full cycles so it is not extending your battery life much, if at all...
N1ghtrider said:My latest 105 mile-plus achievement took me 4 days, commuting 10 miles each way to work and then with various errands througout the week. I am not going to plug in the charger when I have several bars left unless I have a long trip planned for the next day.
I just realized we got off on a tangent (as usual) and never really answered numrut's question, other than to say the bars really are more accurate. So let me give it a try.nemrut said:How are the bars any more accurate than the 'guessometer' figure? Isnt the visual representation via number bars simply corresponding to the mileage remaining number? Has anyone actually compared the two and proven that the bars are more accurate?planet4ever said:My suggestion, which I think most frequent posters on this board agree with, is to ignore the guessometer. Watch the number of blue and white bars which surround it. That is your equivalent of a "gas gauge"
planet4ever said:So, the bottom line is that the bars come from one set of battery numbers, while the guessometer comes from a different set of battery numbers together with a third set of numbers derived from your driving history.
N1ghtrider said:Please don't make me an outcast for saying anything good about the GOM
TomT said:In Florida, where it is seriously flat in any direction, the GOM is going to do much better than it does in most of the rest of the country where constant changes in elevation are the norm...
N1ghtrider said:Please don't make me an outcast for saying anything good about the GOM
...Every day that I begin my driving my car with a 100% charge, I always have, IIRC, a 40-something estimate from my owner's page, and 50-something from the GOM, as a result of the about 2000 ft of ascent (and about 500 ft of descent) in the last 7 miles to my home.
Seven miles, later, on the same road, but now after 1,500 ft. of net descent, the GOM reads 100 to 110 miles, depending on temp, driving style, etc...
N1ghtrider said:Folks, I have totally stayed out of the GOM discussion to date, because I have been somewhat ashamed of the fact that I find it very useful for my purposes. I know that the GOM readings are unscientific, but as one of the mileage leaders on this forum, I have to come out of the closet and say that I use the GOM (along with the m/kWh gauges) to pace my driving speed, acceleration, climate control use and other driving techniques to achieve more than 100 miles per charge for almost half (45.8%) of my total mileage.
Please don't make me an outcast for saying anything good about the GOM
N1ghtrider said:Folks, I have totally stayed out of the GOM discussion to date, because I have been somewhat ashamed of the fact that I find it very useful for my purposes. I know that the GOM readings are unscientific, but as one of the mileage leaders on this forum, I have to come out of the closet and say that I use the GOM (along with the m/kWh gauges) to pace my driving speed, acceleration, climate control use and other driving techniques to achieve more than 100 miles per charge for almost half (45.8%) of my total mileage.
Please don't make me an outcast for saying anything good about the GOM
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