Indeed - the Bolt display appears to me to indicate how the energy has been
spent in an almost pie chart (pink, purple, green). The pink icon (arrow)
suggests driving energy, the purple icon (snowflake) suggests climate control
and the green (battery) I guess might be 12V. If my reading is
It is a bit of a bugaboo that weight is important in terms of energy
consumption. More important is air drag losses, and rolling resistance. In
the thought experiment where there are no losses to friction, the weight is
meaningless except for whatever change in elevation there is from start to
On 01/07/2016 03:12 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
What am I missing here? I don't understand why the responses to this post
are talking about how much energy a Tesla takes.
I guess I failed to be clear though it seemed quite obvious to me. Let
me try again:
1) The Bolt display was shown
Michael Ross wrote:
> It is a bit of a bugaboo that weight is important in terms of energy
> consumption. More important is air drag losses, and rolling resistance.
> In the thought experiment where there are no losses to friction, the
> weight is meaningless except for whatever change in
"Since last charge: 7.9kWh used, 10.7mi traveled."
That's 738 Wh/mi. For once, I'm speechless.
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
EVDL Administrator
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I made an excell spreadsheet and charted my vehicle. Weight was by far the
dominating force until 65 miles an hour when are drag passed it.
In most cases you can divide the with by 10 to get a good estimate of Wh/m.
There are variables light temperature and others things they discussed that
On 7 Jan 2016 at 17:31, Willie2 via EV wrote:
> I commented that such high consumption was not unusual early in a trip
> in cold weather with a cold battery. The Bolt display clearly
> indicated only the first part of a trip, ~10 miles. 3) I cited some
> Tesla numbers, in cold weather with a
What am I missing here? I don't understand why the responses to this post
are talking about how much energy a Tesla takes.
The article was talking about the GM car with the cringeworthy name, BOLT,
not a Tesla. That's what I was responding to.
They're not at all comparable. The Bolt is
