I have been interested to read peoples experience of ranges, 170 miles in an Enyaq on the motorway, the comments on the Soul above, the ID.3 comments detailing ranges of 220-280 typically with a WLTP of 336 and so on. Then I contrast with my experiences, up to 360 in the summer/autumn and the lowest. around 250 on a cold wet winters day on the motorway. Since the cold snap ended I am achieving around 4.7-4.8 which is over 300 miles per charge. This is based on a southern climate, perhaps driving style has something to do with it also, however, like ICE cars, certain cars perform better than the WLTP and others far worse.
Like all cars, you get what your driving deserves. If you drive conservatively, take the utmost care and use regen to stop the car, even over longer distances, accelerate gradually and avoid the usual red flags for consumption, you’ll get further, bored but further. However, if you hoon around like a teenager trying to be a rally star with lights, heating, stereo and everything else on full chat, you’ll get half the distance in a quarter of the time with a grin from ear to ear until you pay for the top up.
More realistic, if you’re at a constant speed, 70 isn’t a great idea, 65 saves you quite a bit and 60 some more. If you’re already reading the road ahead you can lift off and let regen bring you to a better speed before having to brake. Around town, I find that when there’s a lot of pedestrians around, I’m barely getting to 20 before twitching at people likely to be crossing without looking. Too many people don’t understand that the funny whining noise is 2 tonnes of metal coming up behind you until they step out, see you out of the corner of their eye or, worse, jump feet as a horn goes off. With the laws going the way they are, you’d have to prove you did everything possible to avoid taking out the idiot, even if it was obviously their fault, so defensive (slow) driving in and around pedestrian heavy areas is a necessity.
All in all, if you drive at 60-65 on a run, don’t accelerate like it’s a race (too often) and allow the regen to do most of the slowing for you, you’ll get the best your car can give.
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