You'd be surprised. I have actually heard a new EV driver utter the phrase: I gotta drive fast now, because I am almost out of battery. As if it is a cell phone and you need to keep your call short to finish before the battery runs out and the call drops. As you and I know, the opposite is true for an EV: if you are starting to run out of battery and don't have enough range, you slow down and use less energy per mile, so you can go further. It takes longer, but if you save a charge stop, you can easily make up the extra time. The joys of EV driving ;-) Cor.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 6:28 PM EV List Lackey via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2021 at 18:05, paul dove via EV wrote: > > > Do you drive an ICE this way? > > That's my thought too. I do fine in an ICEV with a gas gauge. And in an EV > I'm totally happy if I know the percent of charge remaining. I can see > where it is and how fast it's falling, and adjust my driving to suit. > > Heck, I drove a Comuta-Car with nothing but an expanded-scale voltmeter to > help me guess the state of charge. > > I realize that there's an ignorance epidemic these days, but I hope that > most people sensible enough to own EVs are also sufficiently well educated > to know that a heavy right foot cuts EV range the same as it cuts ICEV MPG, > to watch the instruments, and to compensate accordingly. > > And if the EV has enough smarts to estimate reasonably well how much range > is left, that's a nice luxury. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was > because they managed to spend less money. A man who could afford > fifty dollar boots had a pair that'd still be keeping his feet > dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford > cheap [ten dollar] boots would have spent a hundred dollars on > boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. > > -- Terry Pratchett, "Men at Arms: The Play" > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > 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
