Nubo
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evnow said:sjfotos said:My battery was about 30% discharged at the time I got in to drive. In my 20 minutes of driving the car, my estimated range went from a high of 116 km (72 miles) to a low of 60 km (37 miles). The readout changed every 5 seconds or so to recalculate a new range based on my real time driving conditions. Most drivers are not going to get much out of seeing that their range is fluctuating so much. In fact, that could be a pretty distracting thing.
Yes - they should have that as a special mode - not the standard one. They should give the remaining kwh of the battery all the time ...
I guess I assumed that was what the right side of the battery meter was ( 0 to 1 ) but is it just a static background?
Definitely need the basic state of charge as a prominent full-time display element. The computer may be doing all kinds of fancy computation to estimate your miles remaining, but nowhere near able to match the driver's knowledge of upcoming conditions and intent. The driver needs to be able to process the fundamental unequivocal data of state-of-charge, without having it massaged and filtered. The massaging and filtering is fine as an adjunct, but not as a replacement.