Mike's wife's monthly Kona EV efficiency report

Am I understanding correctly? (Math was never my strong suit)

Your car shows12.2 kwh/100km. Your data shows electricity use as 18.4 kwh/100km. Is the difference just that a lot of juice gets lost somewhere in the charging process?

If so, my assumption is wrong that I can just multiply what the car shows me by my kwh electricity rate to get my electrical cost. Based on your numbers, I need to bump it up by approximately 50%?

Or am I just mis-interpreting your numbers?

Thanks for this - very interesting.

 

Thanks - that makes it clear. I'm not detailed enough to get me an in-line meter, but it's really helpful to know when I work out my ICE v. EV savings I need to gross up the car's number by roughly 20%.

What you say about the energy for AC is interesting. As it happens, our grandson drove my wife to emergency at the hospital this weekend (she's fine) and the poor guy had to spend almost 3 hours in the car waiting on a hot afternoon. I told him to just run the car and keep the AC on, which he did. We were both surprised that the GOM only went down by a few kilometres. If that's because the car doesn't take into account AC drain in computing your remaining (guesstimated) mileage, that doesn't make much practical sense to me. I would have thought the GOM just divides the amount of charge left by how much you used by mileage in some recent amount of driving. Since just using the AC reduces the amount of charge, why would that not reflected in the estimated range left? Or maybe it does, since our remaining mileage did go down a little (less than 10 km) and AC doesn't use as much battery as I would have thought?

Also, he and I were driving later with the consumption screen up that shows what motor, accessories, etc. are using at the moment. We had AC on and switched to and from "driver only". That only made a very small percentage difference on the screen. Maybe that makes sense since you're still running the AC and just changing how many vents it blows through (I suppose).

Anyway, just musing about these things and hope I'm not hijacking your thread but I thought this was sort of relevant.

 

There are a number of mysteries and unknowns, including the level of efficiency while charging. Still none seems to make a huge difference. By the way I also use the AC if I/we have to wait in the car. It just makes sense to me. Unless of course you are running on "battery fumes" - haha.

The little pop-ups reminding me not to drain the battery while I am in the car and running the radio etc. puzzle me. I am literally sitting on 60+kW of power in the drive battery. Please Hyundai engineers take care of this for me will you? At least while the drive battery is, say at or above 40-50%. Small thing but annoying.

 

Leave the car "on" or shift into "utility" mode. Those are the solutions.

 

Thanks for the good info! Just shows that Tesla engineers are ahead of thinking in other areas than 0 to 60 as well.

 

Yes! And the setting is pretty well 'hidden'. It you don't use it often you have to search for it. Crazy.

 

Wildeyed said: ↑
Leave the car "on" or shift into "utility" mode. Those are the solutions.

It's one less step if you don't switch "off" though

 

Since we share the same dealer I'm just curious if you've heard anything from them about your battery replacement?