I only use the percentage gauge because of the reasons you listed plus it’s just easier for my little brain to deal in percentages. Thanks for the great channel
It is a fluctuating rough guess that I only use as a rough guide. Fun to get into stop and go traffic after a high-speed drive and watch the guess-o-meter click up.
On my Leaf on the left on the instrument panel is the battery temperature, in the middle is battery percentage, on the right is the battery gauge, and under that is the miles. I usually subtract about 10 to 15 miles, when fully charged , and that is about the maximum distance I can go. It's different every day. I can get almost 60 miles sometimes. Most of my driving is 30 to 40 miles a day. I have noticed that when the mile and percentage are both blank I can go about another 6 miles to turtle mode depending on how fast I'm going. It's an adventure. If you're not up for it, don't.
I use the Guess-O-Meter as a game like tool to see how high I can get the total estimated range, both in city driving and on the hwy during road trips. I know it's not accurate but it's fun just to see if I drive efficiently just what I can accomplish.
I did this every day with my Chevy Volts. It was fun, and it enabled me to do my daily driving without having the engine kick on. The engine only ran once ever 6 weeks for "engine maintenance mode," using only 0.07 gal of gas.
I don't have an EV yet, but the same applied to eBikes and battery charge, only more so. I've been riding an eBike since Nov '23, don't have the option of %age left which I'd prefer, but it has five bars to indicate battery charge left - ten would be better. To complicate matters I have three different batteries for it, 15kWh that it came with, and 17.5 and 21 kWh that I bought later. I use the 21 for my longer rides, and the 15 and 17.5 when I;m just doing a 10 mile ride for fitness or for a shopping run. So many factors can affect battery usage on an eBike, even on the same round trip, especially stops and starts and headwinds, and it's clearly guessing based on past usage as it can drop a bar when riding uphill with motor assist, then go back up when you're back on a level road. Really it's a matter of getting used to the range you can get out of your battery with your driving/riding style on your regular journeys.
I don't have a EV, but have a couple phev and I just keep in mind the full real usable range and convert in my head the 10% amount. I'm kind of assuming that it'll be similar for real EV
Tesla buries the guess-o-meter on the energy screen. The mileage number next to the battery icon is "rated range," which is the range on the EPA test cycles, roughly the same as at constant 55 mph in good weather. Each mile of rated range is equivalent to a fixed Wh of energy capacity, which depends only on what Tesla model and tire configuration you have. I used rated miles for several years, knowing I would use less than one rated mile per actual mile in city driving, and more than one rated mile per mile of highway driving. That way I could keep track of degradation in battery capacity, estimated by the BMS, by noting the rated miles at 100% charge. However, these estimates change depending on how often you charge to 100% and run the battery down to low SOC (
I've had my Tesla MS60 since 2013 and always use the rated range. It's achieved when the average consumption is about 180 wh/km so I know I can get the displayed range if it's less than 180. I find this much easier than using percentage charge. My 2012 Leaf was a different story since the "guessometer" was always changing the range estimate based on the previous driving rather than a constant EPA based range.
I agree 👍
I only use the percentage gauge because of the reasons you listed plus it’s just easier for my little brain to deal in percentages.
Thanks for the great channel
I find that for certain drives, I get to know what percentage is needed because I repeat them over and over. Makes planning simpler.
It is a fluctuating rough guess that I only use as a rough guide. Fun to get into stop and go traffic after a high-speed drive and watch the guess-o-meter click up.
On my Leaf on the left on the instrument panel is the battery temperature, in the middle is battery percentage, on the right is the battery gauge, and under that is the miles. I usually subtract about 10 to 15 miles, when fully charged , and that is about the maximum distance I can go. It's different every day. I can get almost 60 miles sometimes. Most of my driving is 30 to 40 miles a day.
I have noticed that when the mile and percentage are both blank I can go about another 6 miles to turtle mode depending on how fast I'm going.
It's an adventure. If you're not up for it, don't.
I use the Guess-O-Meter as a game like tool to see how high I can get the total estimated range, both in city driving and on the hwy during road trips. I know it's not accurate but it's fun just to see if I drive efficiently just what I can accomplish.
I’ve sometimes played this game too. It’s amazing how much driving style can skew the number.
I did this every day with my Chevy Volts. It was fun, and it enabled me to do my daily driving without having the engine kick on. The engine only ran once ever 6 weeks for "engine maintenance mode," using only 0.07 gal of gas.
I don't have an EV yet, but the same applied to eBikes and battery charge, only more so.
I've been riding an eBike since Nov '23, don't have the option of %age left which I'd prefer, but it has five bars to indicate battery charge left - ten would be better.
To complicate matters I have three different batteries for it, 15kWh that it came with, and 17.5 and 21 kWh that I bought later. I use the 21 for my longer rides, and the 15 and 17.5 when I;m just doing a 10 mile ride for fitness or for a shopping run.
So many factors can affect battery usage on an eBike, even on the same round trip, especially stops and starts and headwinds, and it's clearly guessing based on past usage as it can drop a bar when riding uphill with motor assist, then go back up when you're back on a level road.
Really it's a matter of getting used to the range you can get out of your battery with your driving/riding style on your regular journeys.
Absolutely. I frequently "gain" range on a 10 km flat easy drive. Typically after my significant other has been out in the car. I'll stop there.
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I don't have a EV, but have a couple phev and I just keep in mind the full real usable range and convert in my head the 10% amount.
I'm kind of assuming that it'll be similar for real EV
Tesla buries the guess-o-meter on the energy screen. The mileage number next to the battery icon is "rated range," which is the range on the EPA test cycles, roughly the same as at constant 55 mph in good weather. Each mile of rated range is equivalent to a fixed Wh of energy capacity, which depends only on what Tesla model and tire configuration you have.
I used rated miles for several years, knowing I would use less than one rated mile per actual mile in city driving, and more than one rated mile per mile of highway driving. That way I could keep track of degradation in battery capacity, estimated by the BMS, by noting the rated miles at 100% charge. However, these estimates change depending on how often you charge to 100% and run the battery down to low SOC (
I've had my Tesla MS60 since 2013 and always use the rated range. It's achieved when the average consumption is about 180 wh/km so I know I can get the displayed range if it's less than 180. I find this much easier than using percentage charge. My 2012 Leaf was a different story since the "guessometer" was always changing the range estimate based on the previous driving rather than a constant EPA based range.
So when do you charge? I guess it when you get to a low percentage is that not what everybody does.
I drive far each day so I always charge every evening when I get home.