What did you do to your MINI today?

Yesterday actually.
I had a good opportunity to test regenerative braking efficiency. Pilot mountain.
Driving to the foot of the mountain, I managed 3.8 mi/kWh. Just before it gets steep, I reset the trip meter. The next 2 miles were pretty bad, 1.2mi/kWh!
Speed was 20-25. I didn't touch the stop pedal.
Back at the bottom, a pic of the trip meter, average is a lot better, but not as good as if I'd driven 20-25 on a flat road. I never drive that slowly normally, but maybe it would have been around 6mi/kWh? I calculate I regenerated 0.75kWh into the battery. At 6kWh on a flat road, I'd have used about 0.25kWh less for those 4 miles. So regen efficiency of 75%. Not too bad.
Last tripmeter pic at the supermarket near where I live. My phone died before I got home, but the average had not changed.
Temps were in the 50s. Brakes not used. Driving up was 27 miles. I used 39% of my battery for the ~56mile drive. Not bad for a cool day on all weather tyres.

I calculate that at an efficiency of 90%, 20,000' climb is 100% battery usage. That is on top of normal driving usage. So if your route is 70miles and 5,000 climb. You'll use about 50% of the battery for 70 flat miles, and 25% for the climb.

 

Coded folding mirrors on lock and acoustic lock/unlock. Green mode on start

 

Do you have an alarm? If not, how did you manage to get the sound?

 

A magician doesn’t tell his secrets

 

So no sound then

 

Hoping to get the lock/unlock sound on my car that doesn’t have the alarm.

 

You need a magician! So do I

 

Get a piezo buzzer and wire it in instead of the siren. It’s what I’ve been doing on BMWs for almost 20 years.

 

What colour rabbit comes out of your hat? (Thanks )

 

White Teslas and more white Teslas, and a few white Teslas with a green N at the back.

 

Only Memes

 

….and may they continue to appear for many years!

 

I added rim protection and to give the wheels some more color. The yellow matched up with the center better than I expected.

 

Did you use AlloyGator or a different brand?

 

Brand is called rimprotec. I didnt want to jack up the car and deflate the tire for the alloygator and wanted something easier. I actually bought it from their Etsy store as it was cheaper than their normal website. Only bad thing is it ships from UK and took 2 weeks to get to US west coast.

 

Yea I just got the regular yellow. I picked up a black replacement bead too in case I didn't like the yellow but it looks good to me.

 

If you bung one of them up do you have to buy another set of four or do they sell singles?