Well, 125 since I filled up 18 kWh at the charging station.Nice trip. How many miles were left on the GOM when you finished the trip?
As an aside, I really enjoy reading these trip reports. It would be nice if the site moderators would implement my suggestion of adding a separate 'road trips' sub-forum so they are all in one place...
My experinece in the mountains is that the mi/kWh goes up to reflect the recent driving history. So you may have used more. Could figure it out probably. Find the energy released with the vertical drop by taking the mass X vertical drop X gravitational constant. Then divide by 3 mi/kWh, which is a pretty good number for how much energy you lose to friction (air, road, drive train).The trip down the mountain was interesting. Started out with 153 miles on the GOM, and by the time I completely descended the mountain 25-30 miles later, the GOM read 211.I think I used less than 1 kWh to travel those 25-30 miles.
ACcording to my Torque PRo logs, my SOC was the same at the bottom of the mountain compared to when I started the descent (25 miles total)My experinece in the mountains is that the mi/kWh goes up to reflect the recent driving history. So you may have used more. Could figure it out probably. Find the energy released with the vertical drop by taking the mass X vertical drop X gravitational constant. Then divide by 3 mi/kWh, which is a pretty good number for how much energy you lose to friction (air or road).
L all the way.During your descent did you use L or D?
Ops, I thought you meant your round trip up and down.ACcording to my Torque PRo logs, my SOC was the same at the bottom of the mountain compared to when I started the descent (25 miles total)
How is it untrue? It makes total sense that going 3000 feet down a mountain (mainly coasting via Regen) would end up using net 0 energy. I'm only talking about the run DOWN the mountain, not up and back down. Obviously going up uses more energy than energy gained going back down.ACcording to my Torque PRo logs, my SOC was the same at the bottom of the mountain compared to when I started the descent (25 miles total)
Ya, and obviously untrue.
I noticed the same on steep hills around San Fancisco.
"apparent perpetual motion" I call it.
I go up a steep 18% hill, 3 miles come off.
I went down the same hill, 3 miles went back on.
Amused, I did it again. 12 miles later, GOM is in the exact same place.
Why it is getting fooled, I don't know.
However, steady state driving on the highway it is pretty darn accurate.
I also did a weekend road trip.
My Bolt will easily go 270 miles at 60 mph.
I am thrilled Chevy was 'conservative' on their publicity of 238.
238 mile is not "best case, hypermiler scenario". It is truly what the average person will get in mild weather.