144 mile range

Nice! This car seems to do really well on road trips. On Friday I took mine 80 miles over a mountain pass, at 65-75mph with the AC on and 1200ft of elevation gain to the destination, and only used 64% of the battery. I was really impressed.
 
Matt Shumaker said:
Hey Everyone!

We just got back from a 100 mile drive in our car (with AC on) and ended up with 44 miles range left.

I am shooting a video about it.

Matt
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The range-left read-out is likely conservative to prevent people from stranding themselves. Has your experience given you a feel for how far you could really go when the car says the battery has 44 miles of range left? The guy who made this video drove 177 miles (not on the expressway) before stopping to charge.
 
insightman said:
The range-left read-out is likely conservative to prevent people from stranding themselves. Has your experience given you a feel for how far you could really go when the car says the battery has 44 miles of range left? The guy who made this video drove 177 miles (not on the expressway) before stopping to charge.
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Yes. I would say 170 miles is definitely doable without expressway driving and without AC or heat.
 
Matt Shumaker said:
Hey Everyone!

We just got back from a 100 mile drive in our car (with AC on) and ended up with 44 miles range left.

I am shooting a video about it.

Matt
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ciao, i just bought a brand new mini se and when is fully charged the odometer indicate 166km (103 miles).Is that correct according to your experience? thanks a lot, best regards from a superhot Italy.
Alberto
 
Matt Shumaker said:
The expected range shown will change as you drive the car and it learns your driving habits.
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OTOH, we don't know how far @ascot73 has driven. Perhaps this MINI Electric has learned it's new owner's driving habits: frequent and extensive ankle flexing has been observed, leading to this appropriate range guesstimate.
 
Seems like it resets overnight or something. In my experience it appears to show the range based on your recent driving while charging but then changes back to some conservative temperature-based estimate at some point after it sits for a while.
 
I believe the UK cars have different software. I have heard the cars in the US read higher miles. However, the actual driving range is the same for either car.
 
Just put over 100 miles on today, mix of freeway and city streets. The first 25 miles or so used up about 10 miles of predicted range, so I think the efficiency is fantastic. I did a 35-minute stop and got Level 2 charging during the trip, so I added 3.39 kWH (11 miles) charge in the middle of my trip.

Got back home with 30% (about 30 miles) left, got 4.3 mi/kWh and 31.1 mi/kWh recuperation on my final 53 miles.
 
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Finished my first full commute starting with 100% charge – 81 miles round trip. Mostly freeway (using cruise control), with air conditioning. In green mode with high regenerative braking. Used 55% battery, much better than I was expecting. I won't have to worry about range anxiety.
 
This last weekend I took my SE on a 472-mile round-trip journey and charged with Electrify America 3 times in each direction. Thankfully I realized before the trip that using their app is way more reliable than trying to deal with their POS credit card readers. In total, it was about 9 hours of driving and 2 hours of charging. Assuming the SE's usable battery capacity to 0% is 30kWh, my consumption was about 3.7mi/kWh. This wasn't as good as my lifetime consumption which is still at 4.2mi/kWh, but the majority of the trip was at 70-80mph with the AC on.

It'll be interesting to see how the range does in the winter. In my Spark the estimated range dropped 30% from the summer high to the depths of winter. I don't imagine the range will be impacted as much in the Mini due to the heat pump, but I imagine freeway driving will still get a lot less efficient due to the denser air and colder tires.
 
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