DaveinOlyWA
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SBCLeaf said:voltamps said:(600/.13)/.3 = 15,384 miles, assuming .13 $/kWH, 0.3 kWH/mile, and $600 spent in that one year. My electricity is .128 dollars per kWH, so .13 is reasonable. They say the $600 will get you 15k miles, not far off, close.SBCLeaf said:$600 in electricity is enough for me to drive 22,500 miles, at least ... and that's California electricity prices. Not sure how they're calculating those costs.
$600 of electricity at 13 cents will get me over 22,000 miles.
I am genuinely confused by why people are getting such drastically worse mileage per kWh than I am. According to LeafSpy and the info display on the Leaf, for the last 248 miles since I last reset I've average 4.8 miles per kWh. That's probably about 50% freeway driving at 65-70 mph with a 1,000-foot elevation drop and then back up from start to finish. The city driving is the same deal, usually involves at least a couple hundred feet of elevation drop and then climb back up on the return trip. I would think the uphill return would cut into my overall efficiency instead of improving it since I can only get about 2 miles per kWh uphill.
At that usage, driving 10,000 miles per year would cost me about $250.
So the EPA sticker doesn't fit you. Well, we know that "one size fits all" only fits one size, right?
There is a 12% penalty based on LEAF Dash numbers from the wall. Granted that doesn't cover the entire discrepancy but I also average 4.8 miles/kwh (actually hit 5 per kwh occasionally) in Summer but lucky to hit 4 miles/kwh in Winter. So 3.8 miles/kwh (current monthly average) for 1000 miles is 299 kwh after accounting for charging inefficiencies at my cost would be $34 per 1000 miles
BUT
Estimating your cost w/o considering public charging costs is disingenuous so your confusion can only be why people spend that much for transportation. I feel the same way about every gasser in town.
Finally; my 2011 had two different places to track miles/kwh and for some reason the monthly record was always .1 to .2 miles/kwh higher than my daily numbers. I figured it was a rounding error but rounding errors generally don't err the same way all the time like my 2011 did so I stopped using the monthly numbers as it would appear it wasn't a running total over the month and likely separate trips added together.
Now, there is a lot to say about daily recordings as well but w/o anything else to check it, I have to think I was a bit high sometimes, a bit low sometimes and occasionally right on.