Kona Electric Mileage

[Martin H]

The GoM is a little slow to adjust.. So, if you do a longer highway trip and then you switch to a cycle that has slower speed city traffic in it, your estimation on the GoM will be low and you'll easily exceed it.. If your GoM is based on slow speed city driving and then you'll go on a higher speed road trip, your GoM numbers will be too high.. It does not instantly adjust.. It takes a full charge or 2 to adjust.
Let me give you one example.. I did a trip from Lakeland to Orlando on the weekend at 70 mph with the AC on and 4 people in the car. When I charged Sunday night, my GoM estimated a 248 mile range on 80% charge.. After 2 weeks of commuting, my GoM estimate at 80% charge was up to 275 mile range at 80%.

Exactly. But why? As was pointed out, it is easy to get a much more accurate estimate of your range after driving a few typical miles on a trip using the actual average consumption displayed and the KwH in the battery. So why not give us the option having the car calculate it?

 

[ericy]

I would guess that our EVs are similar. The diff is we didn't pay much attention to the GOM on our ICE cars, just the gas gauge. Now we do...

Sort of. My ICE car sucked in heavy traffic, and the GOM plummeted. It wasn't a hybrid (it did start-stop, but that's about it). On the highway is when it did the best.

The Kona seems to deal with heavy traffic without a problem, so the GOM never drops in the same way.

 

[FloridaSun]

Exactly. But why? As was pointed out, it is easy to get a much more accurate estimate of your range after driving a few typical miles on a trip using the actual average consumption displayed and the KwH in the battery. So why not give us the option having the car calculate it?

They could add an option to switch between city traffic and longer highway trips to be more accurate. The car can't predict if you'll be driving highway or city in the future. It can only look at the past.

 

[Tony M.]

I said I cared mostly about knowing the range (and a bit about the range for the convenience fewer charges)

Fair enough. The only thing I would add is that coming up with a range estimator that meets everyone's needs at all times may not be possible. Distance, speed, elevation changes, weather, aggressiveness (driving faster when we're in a rush), number of passengers/weight of cargo, etc., etc. Too many variables. On the other hand, our own personal experience gives us a good baseline to make our own rough estimates.

 

[electriceddy]

Fair enough. The only thing I would add is that coming up with a range estimator that meets everyone's needs at all times may not be possible. Distance, speed, elevation changes, weather, aggressiveness (driving faster when we're in a rush), number of passengers/weight of cargo, etc., etc. Too many variables. On the other hand, our own personal experience gives us a good baseline to make our own rough estimates.

Personal experience and awareness of the conditions is the best range estimator.

 

[FloridaSun]

Personal experience and awareness of the conditions is the best range estimator.

Exactly.. I'm going on a road trip 220 miles each way and when I charge to 100% tomorrow night, it will show me 330+ mile range but I know that it will be 280 miles at best as most of my trip will be 65 mph..

 

[ericy]

I was wondering about the GOM - when it reaches 0 miles, what does the SOC meter show? Just entering the red zone, or completely out?

My guess is the former, but I haven't run it down that low to know for sure.

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[electriceddy]

I was wondering about the GOM - when it reaches 0 miles, what does the SOC meter show? Just entering the red zone, or completely out?

My guess is the former, but I haven't run it down that low to know for sure.

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Not something I want to try, but here is a demo at 2% SOC at 21:11 of this video :

just turtle and red (battery glowing not sure about at bottom right, seems to happen at 4% - 16:35 of same video)