Hello there, Electric battery vehicles are at their most efficient when the battery is up to temperature and they aren’t at their most efficient doing short journeys with a cold battery. After 10 miles or so, depending on the ambient temperature, the efficiency improves greatly, so ignore the efficiency readings after short journeys with a cold battery. ICEs are exactly the same. Just live with the car and you’ll learn how it behaves. Happy motoring
Thanks Stuart. To be fair, this month we have done very few miles in the car and we are doing mostly short runs of about a mile each trip up and down to the village. We are only doing the occasional 25 mile round trip once a week, so not representative of normal people’s usage at all. This is generally our usage though, albeit with the odd 80 mile round trips to see our children in Belfast or Armagh, here in Northern Ireland. I am running the battery down to 20% from full at the moment and will report the figures back here.