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The difference between 3.9 and 4.5 can be several factors, seemingly minor, but important to efficiency at any moment: Speed, vehicle weight, ambient temperature, wind - direction and speed, traffic conditions, elevations changes, rain, payment conditions, etc.

1 year anniversary March 17. 13,000 miles. I don’t know the lifetime m/kWh. That is quite frankly irrelevant. When I want to have fun, efficiency is not the focus. When I drive Milwaukee to Detroit, 400+ miles, it is.

I can easily achieve 4.5 in my Touring on highway trips driving 74mph but never accelerating, submitting to ACC. I can get 5.0 around town when regen is working. Regen has not been working fully the past 3 months, but that’s another topic. The EPA test cycle is legit for what it is. Look, if...

I own a Touring purchased in 2023. The official GVWR according to the placard on my vehicle is 6283 lbs.

There is in fact something wrong with merely repurposing an ICE platform for an EV. It is suboptimal. It saves $3-4 billion of capital investment but it results in compromises. Wonderful if you are satisfied with those compromises. Enjoy your car. Interesting that Car and Driver’s top pick for...

I think the traditional car brand that has transitioned the best to EVs is Hyundai. No question. BMW EVs are over weight, lack space, and have poor range. BMW lacks a cohesive vision for its EVs. Repurposing an existing platform as an EV is a very weak, suboptimal strategy. BMW quality has been...

Has a 5,200 lb. vehicle ever been fitted with such low profile tires as the Lucid Air with 21’s as an OEM fitment? I think we are learning it may not be a good idea. There is 100 years of history that tire manufactures are responsible for the warranty on their product not the vehicle brand.

It takes some technique to get 4.2 mi/kWh. But it is easily learned.

Nice. It works well.

I disagree. The Touring with 19 inch wheels has far better efficiency and range than every EV in the market except for the AGT. Most drivers of competitive vehicles need to charge up to 95% which takes forever and clogs up the charger network. I’ve been getting well over 200-220 kW at EA...

Plymouth Horizon, circa 1979. The L-car. A.k.a. Dodge Omni. A pretty decent copy of the successful VW Rabbit. Unfortunately, the front transaxle kept leaking. One of the worst cars Chrysler ever made.

I agree. Think about how foolish the EV strategy is of Ford and GM. They make 120% of their profit on ICE pickups and large SUVs. So why would they canabalize their greatest profit generators with EVs in the same market segment that will loose money for the next 8-10 years? The best use case...

Regen is erratic. Today with 45F temps and SOC 70% I have almost no regen. Settings are Smooth / Regen High. I usually drive with one pedal driving. Regen did not stop the vehicle today. Regen was very consistent and high performing until the last several weeks. It behaves differently now...

There are two different issues. One is the reasonableness of signing for and paying for a car that has not yet been delivered, but with a clear understanding of when the delivery will take place. See my post as an example. This is indeed different from buying a car from a dealership and entering...

I signed B of A finance docs a week before actual delivery. The car was physically at the delivery center and we were working on scheduling a date for delivery direct to my house. The payments had to clear before transporting the vehicle. That was reasonable. Signing a lease commitment before...

R2 looks nice. Lucid needs to hurry up and get back into the party.

ABRP allows for customing several parameters such as m/KWh, min and max SOC %. You can thus force it to be more conservative. I have found it to be a great tool.

The BMW i5 is yet another example of the deep compromises that are forced to occur when leveraging one vehicle platform for multiple models for both EV and ICE propulsion. For the EV variant, weight goes up, range and interior space go down. Style is subjective but with BMW’s current design...

4 out of 5 stylish shoppers with exquisite taste picked Quantum Gray. ( I do like Fathom Blue with platinum trim)

I am a few days away from my 1 year anniversary with my Touring. 13,500 miles. No quality problems, I have a very well built vehicle. A couple crooked trim pieces that’s it. I have done several road trips and I have experienced very good results with EA. Recently I have been hitting 240kW from...