Range vs Charge frequency
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Do you believe you had only enough charge for 1 more mile? If that happens to me, I'll put my small Honda generator in the back (I won't gas it up to avoid the abhorent odor of gas in my all-electric car) and drive around my block to see how far that "1 mile left" really goes. Then I'll walk home and get my gas can. After I get enough charge to limp home and plug into my L2 EVSE, I'll return and retrieve the generator with our partly-electric car, our Honda Clarity.
teslarati97
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One MINI SE driver limped home for 9 miles at 0%, but needed a partial system restart with 3 miles to go.
SameGuy
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Right, so I’m thinking I theoretically had another 15-20 km in the tank. Reckon more than half of yesterday's ride was freeway or with the needle at 9 o’clock or above; if the balance was leaning towards urban/suburban at sub-freeway speeds (and with my tires at the proper pressures!) 250 km in pleasant weather is not only possible, it should be normal.
Remember, this was right after I started driving the SE. At that time, there wasn't enough experience to not believe the GoM. As I got closer to home, I kept hoping I'd just get past the last hill before running out. Even now, with a year of experience, I won't push the limit (whatever that may be) without a plan in mind. You also have to understand that I had not installed a L2 yet, and the nearest charging place was in a neighboring town.
With every new car I've purchased, I always run it out of gas soon after I receive it so I know how much range the car has when the low-fuel LED comes on. Despite the bravado I tried to pass off with what I wrote above, I haven't had the courage to test my SE's maximum range.
Rexsio
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With ICE car you walk to nearest gas station or call service and and they feel your tank with 5 gallons but I don’t know if is a service they can fill your battery’s with electron’s in fast speed but on you tube gays run out of range to zero on EVs and they bring friends with Ford 150 EV with capacity to charge a SE with 220 volts .Only options for EV is flat bed towing service if you know how to put EV into neutral to be drug to flat bed truck if your battery is dead .
teslarati97
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The EcoFlow DELTA 2 (1kWh & 27lbs) will be available in the US hopefully by the end of this month. Alternatively you could get it for ¥143,000 in Japan (released early Aug 2022). Bjørn Nyland recently bought the discounted NCM Gen 1 product instead of waiting for the LFP Gen 2.
Rexsio
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I don’t know how old you are but driving in NY in 40 years ICE cars I never went out of gas and I cover about 500000 miles the same principles apply to SE. EV if you know your distance of traveling don’t existed a car capacity or you walk home as so many people ask me what happen if your EV run out of juice the same stupid question if you don’t have gasoline in your dinosaur gas tank is the same crab.I’m 72 years young . How often happens a young people run out of juice on their I phones . Never !SE is your I phone.
I'm older than you (early Boomer!). The only time I can remember running the tank dry was near the end of a 1,000 mile trip, and I had a 35 gallon tank. I had to walk back to the gas station that I foolishly passed up, and (of course) they didn't have any gas cans. I bought a gallon of washer fluid, dumped the fluid, and carried back a gallon of gas. Really messed up my injectors. I don't have range anxiety, but you can bet that I'm not going to drain the battery.
Rexsio
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I bet now body understand what you talking about maybe 1% members be more simple to reach bigger audience and you can call me stupid I don’t care
is great as we old duds we driving EVs
@Rexsio, think of the EcoFlow Delta (and newer Delta 2) rechargeable battery as a gas can for EVs (but not stinky). The 1kWh Delta 2 weighs 27 lbs, which is 4 pounds lighter than the original Delta and incorporates more advanced Li-Ion batteries. If I could afford one of these (>$1000) Delta batteries, I wouldn't have to drag my Honda generator with me on my run-out-the-battery test.
AndysComputer
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I have done a similar test to Bjorn already using a 2kWh LiFePo Bluetti. It weighs what must be close to 60lbs. (People conveniently forget that chemistry weighs more but you would want it in such a device).
I got 1.7kWh out of it which translated to 1.2kWh into the battery. And that took 80 minutes. Driving conservatively in the SE that’s 8 miles. You’d get 4 miles out of an ecoflow delta at 27lbs.
I can see how a similar device could be useful to AAA but I don’t see it as a viable solution for the driver to carry. I also wonder how many miles you lose from the cars original battery just carrying it in the trunk…
I got 1.7kWh out of it which translated to 1.2kWh into the battery. And that took 80 minutes. Driving conservatively in the SE that’s 8 miles. You’d get 4 miles out of an ecoflow delta at 27lbs.
I can see how a similar device could be useful to AAA but I don’t see it as a viable solution for the driver to carry. I also wonder how many miles you lose from the cars original battery just carrying it in the trunk…
teslarati97
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I'd consider a Delta 2 for the 1800W AC output and 1200W AC charging (1100W for DC/solar) so I could V2L on a Yugo. Also the ability to properly tailgate out of my MINI Cooper SE without hydrocarbons is a tantalizing proposition. Now I just need to get a PACOJET to make ice cream.