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I am in SF Bay Area and frequently drive over the mountains via 17 to Santa Cruz area. I just assumed I needed Mountain Mode and feared reduced propulsion mode. Last week, I did the round trip in Sport mode instead of Mountain Mode (I was in CS mode at the bottom of the hill). My intent was to see what reduced propulsion felt like, click into Mountain Mode and hopefully not limp along too slowly or for too long. But I never experienced it. And I was flogging it. The ICE was definitely working hard, but I seemed to always have normal power.
So my question is: what sort of routes/grades would actually require MM? Anyone in Bay Area made trip up to Tahoe on 50 or 80? That would be the high water mark in Northern California, I think. Maybe climbing into the Grapevine in So. Cal?
I'd be curious to know both the spreadsheet answer (in CS mode on a 5% grade at 70MPH, you have a power deficit of X kW, which at nominal CS SOC implies Y minutes of run time equating to Z miles) and also the real world experiences of folks.
So my question is: what sort of routes/grades would actually require MM? Anyone in Bay Area made trip up to Tahoe on 50 or 80? That would be the high water mark in Northern California, I think. Maybe climbing into the Grapevine in So. Cal?
I'd be curious to know both the spreadsheet answer (in CS mode on a 5% grade at 70MPH, you have a power deficit of X kW, which at nominal CS SOC implies Y minutes of run time equating to Z miles) and also the real world experiences of folks.