Wind drag only becomes significant beginning at about 45 MPH and since most electrics were slower than that back then, I dont think it made much of a difference. Bob
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:20 AM paul dove <[email protected]> wrote: > > What about average speed. My range goes way up the slower I drive. > > > Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Sunday, May 9, 2021, 4:10 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Im reading "The Electric car in America 1890 - 1922" and throughout, > > it prints articles (mostly ads) claiming 35, 50 and 100 mile ranges but > > NONE of > > those were made under peer review condition. Throughout, the real > > honest reporting concluded over and over again, that about 20-25 miles > > was the routine repeatable range.... which rose to about 50 miles by 1910 > > or so. > > But the one thing that surprises me is the assumed mileage. Generally > the average miles per month was on the order of 1000 miles per month > that is not that far off from our present assumptinos of average > mileage around 15k miles a year or simiilar to 1200 miles a month. > And that was over the most ridiculous roads. > > Though I assume that statistic is only for people with cars, which was > extremely small. > > Oh, electricity cost about ten cents per kWj, about the same as today > (without conversion to inflation). > > Oh, and the average mileage of a horse was about 40 miles a day, > again, the same as todays average family daily travel. > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
