Mileage range at full charge

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  1. DisgruntledSanta

    DisgruntledSanta Active Member

    Best I’ve ever seen was this, and at 97% battery to boot! Wish I had seen the full projected range at 100% IMG_0969.JPG


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  3. SameGuy

    SameGuy Well-Known Member Subscriber

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    And at 72 mph to boot! 15% e-power on Green. I’m excited to get some miles under my wheels!
     
  4. Puppethead

    Puppethead Well-Known Member

    Mine probably would have shown higher if I was in green mode, but I always drive in mid mode.
     
  5. DisgruntledSanta

    DisgruntledSanta Active Member

    Lol.

    When I’m on the interstate I always drop it in green. I’m not going to be zipping around on the highway, and highway miles are the most taxing on range. It doesn’t do much, unless I have the climate going, but hey no sense in burning energy that I don’t need to.


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  6. DisgruntledSanta

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    As an fyi, that’s not super typical… it dropped pretty quick once I got a few more miles on the trip. Apparently the last trip I had taken was SUPER docile.

    My range typically sits around 95-105mi on the highway.


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  8. AndysComputer

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    The range estimation is useless and meaningless.
    No matter how many trips I take and with each one exceeding 169 miles of calculated range based on battery percentage it never shifts from 110-127 projected and after longer, slowest more efficient runs the 100% projection often goes down which means it’s not learning from our driving habits.
    It seems to me it’s based on a fixed value with a temperature compensation and that’s iir. Which renders it totally useless and a real half-assed effort by BMW/Mini.
     
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  9. DisgruntledSanta

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    Yeah, I think it’s calculated off of the last 5mi of driving, then subtracts off a percentage if the HVAC is on. (If you have the HVAC off in mid mode, then change to green, there will be no change of range).

    For around town driving I find the GOM to be reasonably accurate, and if I’m on the highway for a hot bit it’s reasonably accurate, but if I switch from one to the other, the GOM is useless.


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  10. My normal is 159km (98.8 miles) on a full charge; the highest I had on a full charge was 181km (112 miles) and my lowest was 135km (83.8 miles). Pretty abysmal GOM compared to all of yours.
     
  11. vader

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    Got to agree with AndysComputer. The GOM could easily calculate the range based on the current average consumption, and correct for temperature, but it seems to pull a number out of its ...... well if it had one, tailpipe :) Ironically, the best ever GOM readings are always after the worst journeys. The best I ever saw was (from memory) was around 185km after a freeway trip up the coast where I just squeaked home (3%) with a 220km round trip. Luckily the last 1/2 hour was in the city. This is the worst efficiency I have ever had in 2 years, but the next day after charging, I saw 185km. At the next charge, after going almost 250km with battery left, if went back to...... 155km. Really good programming there - I am a programmer and I would be quite embarrassed to put my name to that functionality :)

    Ironically, it doesn't even get "0" correct, I have hit zero range with around 5% left. Surely 0 range means you can't move. Really, really poor.

    EDIT: I don't make a habit of running the battery down to low percent, however in 2 years I have done it a few times through necessity.
     
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  13. Carsten Haase

    Carsten Haase Well-Known Member

    The efficiency shown on the trip computer is also always wrong and off by random amounts (compared to manual % calculation) so maybe it's actually the efficiency person who screwed the GOM dev... Garbage in, garbage out? Or it was the same person lol
     
  14. Quiet Mini

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    My car has been getting excellent mileage now that the weather is warm. Yesterday I drove 93 miles. Conditions were 75-80 degrees F. I was driving to keep up with traffic on a freeway with a 65mph to 75mph speed limits for 55 miles. The remaining miles were slower in a traffic jam plus mixed city driving. I have stock 16” Ventura prime tires. I was in mid mode. The battery went from 99% to 34% for a full calculated range of 143 miles. This range is pretty common this summer. I’d be curious to see what green mode would do, but I usually don’t need more range than this.
     
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  15. vader

    vader Well-Known Member

    My average consumption is accurate to the second decimal place with my calculations (distance / battery used). I would be more than happy to use it to calculate the range.
     
  16. Carsten Haase

    Carsten Haase Well-Known Member

    Maybe the internal conversion to mi/kWh is wrong because mine is frequently up to 0.5mi/kWh low... What units are you using? I only get one decimal displayed
     
  17. Zim

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    We gave up on the GOM, instead relying on battery percentage for credible range remaining information. After a few months getting to know the car, battery percentage becomes second nature... if used. No different with gasoline vehicles I guess, many here most likely made educated "guesses" using nothing more than the fuel gauge - 1/4 tank, 1/8 tank and of course the reliable E and fuel light warning.

    I never used the GOM on gasoline vehicles, I found them just as unreliable. Most definitely a carry over from legacy.

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  18. Torrey

    Torrey Active Member

    I haven't checked too many times, but my average consumption yesterday showed 4.8mi/kWh and my calculated was 4.89mi/kWh. I would say that is close enough given that I calculate by rounding to the nearest whole mile and battery percentage.
     
  19. Hutch

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    Had my best run today. Never got above 3.8, and that was driving like my dad. But got new tires and took a drive just to see how it goes. Hit 4.4 And yes, I know it's a bit dusty. IMG_20220610_101754775.jpg

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  20. SameGuy

    SameGuy Well-Known Member Subscriber

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    I’m lol at Hair Nation on XM
     
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  21. Hutch

    Hutch Active Member

    that and rockbar313 I wonder how many people keep that going after that 1 yr.
     
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  22. Quiet Mini

    Quiet Mini Well-Known Member

    Now that’s it’s over 80F my range just keeps getting better. This weekend I did an 80 mile round trip and returned home with 51%. I can’t complain one bit! I have not gotten below 5mi/kWh in a while.
     

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