4.1 is LESS efficient. You are using more energy per mile. On Apr 26, 2013 12:40 PM, "Suhas Malghan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The regen on the 2013 LEAF results in much more efficient driving than > previous models, ime. I find it easy to get 4.1 kWh/Mi driving much > less mindfully than I used to in the 2012 I traded in, where I'd be > happy to get 3.6-3.8. I ran about 40psi tire pressure on both cars. > Regen is much stronger and is present even at 100% SOC in the cold. > The 2012 took several miles of driving before regen would come into > play and would rarely light up 5 circles, the 2013 lights up all 5 > much more quickly. Modulating the 2013's brake pedal is much more > difficult though, it's harder to drive smoothly so I sympathize with > the taxi occupants already. > > Combined with the vastly more efficient heat pump climate control, 80 > miles in the city is certainly possible, I get that with combined > city/highway driving. The 2013 version is what Nissan should have > released in the beginning, though I don't know if that would have been > possible given the learning curve. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130426/ba7bfcec/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
