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Further, it was just reported in another thread (I cannot remember which one) information (apparently from the Service Manual) that indicated that the PACK voltage IS used to derive the "SOC", not the "lowest cell-pair" information.
Then, this "apparent" SOC could be still relatively high, but the car's "protect-the-lowest-cell" monitoring MIGHT shut down the driving much earlier than expected.
IF TRUE, this could explain the several cases of "unexpected exhaustion", and the lack of the "Low Battery" warnings (assuming that they are indeed, as reported, based on this "apparent" SOC).