ericy
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This morning I drove into DC, and I can share some notes.
Starting point this morning was 83% charge on the battery, GOM showed 298 miles. Temperature was about 47 degrees, car was in the garage overnight. I didn't get around to preconditioning. I suspect if it were warmer that efficiency would improve a bit.
The GOM implies that a 100% charge would give you 350 miles. That seems ... optimistic. That being said, I would want to precondition the car to warm the battery if I wanted to maximize range.
I had the heat off, but the panoramic roof window let in a lot of light, and it warmed up nicely. Almost too warm, really. I ended up closing the shade later on.
The travel assist works quite well, but it disengage if you tap the brakes. The steering wheel has a capacitive sensor that knows when your hands are on the wheel - this works well, and I didn't get any bogus warnings about needing to hold the wheel. Just one or two fingers lightly resting on the wheel is enough to keep it happy.
The car has both a built-in navi as well as Android Auto. General concensus is that AA works better. Voice commands to the builtin navi were frustrating. There is an optional add-on to CarNet to add natural language handling - I haven't tried this yet.
Adaptive cruise control works well. There is a view on the dash that shows you the cars in adjacent lanes as well as cars ahead of you. It alerts you to cars in the blind spot - lights come on in the side view mirror. I believe that if you attempt a lane change while a car is in your blind spot thet you get a warning.
At the end of the trip, here is what I had. So I used 50% of the battery, and went 147 miles. At the end, the GOM had 110 miles left.
Incidentally, the same trip in the Kona also took 50% of the (smaller) battery.
Starting point this morning was 83% charge on the battery, GOM showed 298 miles. Temperature was about 47 degrees, car was in the garage overnight. I didn't get around to preconditioning. I suspect if it were warmer that efficiency would improve a bit.
The GOM implies that a 100% charge would give you 350 miles. That seems ... optimistic. That being said, I would want to precondition the car to warm the battery if I wanted to maximize range.
I had the heat off, but the panoramic roof window let in a lot of light, and it warmed up nicely. Almost too warm, really. I ended up closing the shade later on.
The travel assist works quite well, but it disengage if you tap the brakes. The steering wheel has a capacitive sensor that knows when your hands are on the wheel - this works well, and I didn't get any bogus warnings about needing to hold the wheel. Just one or two fingers lightly resting on the wheel is enough to keep it happy.
The car has both a built-in navi as well as Android Auto. General concensus is that AA works better. Voice commands to the builtin navi were frustrating. There is an optional add-on to CarNet to add natural language handling - I haven't tried this yet.
Adaptive cruise control works well. There is a view on the dash that shows you the cars in adjacent lanes as well as cars ahead of you. It alerts you to cars in the blind spot - lights come on in the side view mirror. I believe that if you attempt a lane change while a car is in your blind spot thet you get a warning.
At the end of the trip, here is what I had. So I used 50% of the battery, and went 147 miles. At the end, the GOM had 110 miles left.
Incidentally, the same trip in the Kona also took 50% of the (smaller) battery.
