Randy
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Isn't the electricity consumption the total of what you used from the battery minus the regen number? I thought I saw that somewhere...
It is - but you won't be getting more than 5mpkwh on highways. I think carwings is not giving the right data - time for a thread on that. Even assuming only 20 kwh of useable capacity ...Randy said:Isn't the electricity consumption the total of what you used from the battery minus the regen number? I thought I saw that somewhere...
evnow said:Even assuming only 20 kwh of useable capacity ...
In that case, definitely some of the numbers we'are seeing for kwh used (and this mpkwh?) are wrong. Overly optimistic.mwalsh said:evnow said:Even assuming only 20 kwh of useable capacity ...
I think it's pretty safe to assume that the 24kWh is usable now, with the final ~4kWh (refuel lamp on) contained within those 2 final red bars. Meaning, conveniently, that each bar (including the 2 reds) is worth ~2kWh/8.35% of the total pack charge.
mwalsh said:I'm finding these bars to be the most accurate representation of the state of one's vehicle than any other number spit out by the car. Of course, I wish it were a more accurate representation, with maybe 24 bars representing ~1kWh /~4.15%, or even 48 bars representing ~0.5kWh/~2.05%. :lol: But that's the only real negative I have about the existing scale - being somewhat hard to read on the move. Which would, of course, be even more difficult if the bars were narrower and there were more of them.
Jimmydreams said:mwalsh said:I'm finding these bars to be the most accurate representation of the state of one's vehicle than any other number spit out by the car. Of course, I wish it were a more accurate representation, with maybe 24 bars representing ~1kWh /~4.15%, or even 48 bars representing ~0.5kWh/~2.05%. :lol: But that's the only real negative I have about the existing scale - being somewhat hard to read on the move. Which would, of course, be even more difficult if the bars were narrower and there were more of them.
+1. Those bars are hard to count when you're driving! "one...two..three..four..!CAR! Uh...is that one five or six? How many empty spaces are there? Three. Three from twelve is !TRUCK! Where was I? One..two..."
:lol:
Jimmydreams said:Am I the only one getting "Fail" messages when I refresh my display from the owners portal?? It seems to be down.....
wsbca said:Jimmydreams said:Am I the only one getting "Fail" messages when I refresh my display from the owners portal?? It seems to be down.....
Nope, it's not just you. I started getting failures last night, interspersed with occasional success.
Me too. Intermittent starting this am and now won't retrieve car data at all. I tried later this morning from another spot a few miles away (diff cell tower) and no dice. My ATT coverage is excellent at my house so I suspect it's another issue. Called the carwings extension and they've "escalated" it... yeah, we know how well that works.mwalsh said:wsbca said:Jimmydreams said:Am I the only one getting "Fail" messages when I refresh my display from the owners portal?? It seems to be down.....
Nope, it's not just you. I started getting failures last night, interspersed with occasional success.
+1. Someone told me yesterday that AT&T was having unrelated network problems. I've not been able to confirm that as true. But if it is, maybe it's something to do with that?
EVDRIVER said:wsbca said:EVDRIVER said:an SOC display, a real time total KW consumption display in place of the gimmicky Leaf tree which is as useful as, well, nothing. How about a few user-sleectable regen preset profiles that actually make sense. Funny you mention MB, I just finished some work for them I suggested they do an EV-based episode.
All that does sound pretty sweet. Though the dash interface is probably inflexible it seems like there could be plenty of flexibility in the nav display.
Regen mods would be great - in my (very limited) experience it does seem rather light in certain circumstances even compared to our Civic hybrid. Has to be at least theoretically possible in the firmware, right?
It would be entertaining (?) to see MB do something (hopefully non-destructive . If and when Top Gear gets hold of one (the real Top Gear, not the American version), I don't know if I'm hoping it's a Clarkson review and he somehow looks favorably on it, or the less risky proposition of May or Hammond driving it and then simply putting up with abuse from the former.
Mods are possible, if I had my car now it would be underway. I modified the regen on my last EV and changed the entire Siemens profile. Regen on the Leaf is low, all the experienced EV drivers that have driven the Leaf for extended lengths know this, it was a function of making it like a "car", they kind of over compensated and missed the key thing an EV can do to an ICE driver, invoke a sense a sense of passion and connection to the driving experience. The torque is there but there is an inverse side, good regen gives a feel to the car that can only be explained through the experience. It connects the driver to the road via an intangible sense of creating energy. As odd as it seems it becomes a great part of the EV experience and once one feels and connects to this over time they don't want to give it up, it separates an EV from a normal car in another way that Leaf drivers don't experience yet but likely will if some have their way. It is these few simple components in the experience that make driving an EV a rewarding and exciting experience and in turn unsuspecting future addicts
PS- Train horns, gas generators, trailers, and fan wind mills on the roof will not be some of those mods.
That's the thing i cell phone spyware was having the whole yesterday evening. arrr :evil:Jimmydreams said:Am I the only one getting "Fail" messages when I refresh my display from the owners portal?? It seems to be down.....
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