In ideal conditions though. Have you driven it in winter in a colder climate? My wife has an older EV with 270km range in summer, but it falls to close to 170km in winter, sometimes less, when fully charged.
We had -25C earlier this winter, it dropped a bit closer to 200km, again with a comfortable AC level.
So yeah, it drops a lot. We found we need at least 150km range for our car to be useful (we have an old Leaf with less for some time), and if things scale linearly we should still have about 175km effective winter range with 70% SOH.
Sure it's not winning any range contests, we knew that when we bought it.
When I'm driving on my own with my wife's car, I turn heating or AC off, and it makes a little difference, but not all that much.
> Sure it's not winning any range contests, we knew that when we bought it.
I mean, it is also far more affordable that a lot of the alternatives. I find that range is only useful up to a point. If you have enough range to meet your requirements, why spend so much more money just to get a bigger number?
And the municipality is installing street chargers. While not enough currently due to the high % of EVs, they're going to install a lot more they say.
> If you have enough range to meet your requirements, why spend so much more money just to get a bigger number?
This was exactly our approach. We wanted 400km which we felt was sufficient for us. So we just eliminated cars with less and looked at other aspects to decide which one to pick.
It uses the resistive heater when preheating from charger though, I can hear the heat pump kick in when I disconnect the charger while it's preheating.
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