I have a brand new 2018 Chevy Volt. It's fully charged each night. And my driving is mostly city condition.
I drove 2 miles to with the Max heat on while taking kids to school. The EV Range goes from 52 mi. to 40 mi. (2 ticks removed on the gauge)
I drove 12 miles to work with nothing on. The EV Range goes from 54 mi. to 50 mi. (only 1 tick removed on the gauge)
Is something wrong with my car or is this typical for Volt? Other than this odd observation. It's appears to be running just fine...even used the gas a few times.
Thank you in advance.
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Unless GM made changes to the logorythm that computes mileage, your mileage is computed like all the other Volts.
If you drive in the cold weather you are automatically being dinged mileage.
If you are using Air Con or the Heat, you are being dinged for the mileage.
If you hit the gas hard (jack rabbit starts), you are being dinged for the mileage.
If you drive on top of the stop signs/lights and hit the break hard, you are being dinged for mileage.
If you don't use cruise control you are being dinged for mileage.
If you do not use regen/coast while approaching stop signs/lights, you are being dinged for mileage.
If you drive over 40 miles per hour for any length of time, you are being dinged for mileage.
If you drive over hills or up mountain grades you are being dinged for mileage.
The Guess-O-Meter was called this by owners because they don't know what else to call it and they need an "out" for poor mileage readings.
The Guess-O-Meter is a computer. It takes hard readings from all the above listed sources plus quite a few others and it runs
through a logorythm and comes up with the mileage reading you see on your dash after charging.
This mileage reading is entirely fed by the way the car is driven, how hard/soft you drive, how you respond with the brakes,
the temperature, energy use(lights/heat/AC/etc), if you use regen to slow down/or not, and others.
It all gets results and is thrown into a formula and the result is more or less what you would expect.
I can tell you on flat land with little hills, under 40mph, in D (drive) using cruise control, IN SUMMER HEAT, the best I have
had come up repeatedly above 80 miles after the charge.
In the Winter when it is cold it drops below 40 and if you use the heat, even less.
The Guess-O-Meter responds to everything you throw at it, computes it and will tell you what mileage you should
expect IF YOU DRIVE THE SAME WAY YOU DID THE PREVIOUS DAY.
If you drive easy, flatlands, no hills at 30 mile per hour and get a reading of about 60 miles after a charge, then the next day
go out and tear down the highway at 55mph, run over hills, slam on the breaks, put the pedal to the metal when starting off
from a stop, you miles are going to be much less next charge up.
The car is sensitive to everything that it experiences and critical to speeds, take offs, regen, hills and driver input.
Any variance in any of these or combination of these will give you different miles readings.
Basically, the controlling factor is the DRIVER(includes comfort settings like HEAT and AC), THE TERRAIN and THE SPEED.