Not to be too far off topic, but I just did a ~500 mile round trip in my prius.... I did the same trip when it was brand new, and now did it with 40k on it. When new, I averaged 56mpg there, and 52mpg back. Just now, I averaged 65mpg there and 57mpg back (it's more uphill one way than the other, though there are three mountain passes each way either way). I attribute this partially to more worn tires affecting the mpg calcs now, but also to the car wearing in and being a little looser now than when it was brand new and actually being more efficient. An EV won't have quite a many parts to wear the new-car stiffness out of as an ICE, but still you have wheel bearings and transaxle and such. This is well known (whether it's true or not is a different matter I guess, but it's well known...) that brand new engines take 10k mile to wear in and achieve design efficiency.
It's also possible that I've learned to drive more efficiently over two years time driving it... Zeke On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2014, at 10:54 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV < > ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > How many people really worry about loss of efficiency? > > Apparently many people on this list. (Sorry, I couldn't resist) > _______________________________________________ > 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/20140802/941e37a7/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)
