Interesting Results from Recent Road Trip

[illopp00]

Just got back from a day trip. There were some unexpected results.
Conditions: 50 Deg F ambient, mild traffic. 136 mi Total. Average highway speed on ACC was about 70 mph. It is a 2024 Air Touring on 19in with Aero Covers. 2 Adults, 2 kids in the car. HVAC in the front set to 68, rear 70. Used some seat heating and massage for 30 mins of the trip. Smooth mode with High Regen.

Since Last Charge is the full trip which included a little bit of city.
Trip A by habit I normally reset around 88-92 Kwhr to represent a full battery charge.

I thought there was something wrong with the car on the trip there with low efficiency, and then it magically made crazy efficiency on the last leg my wife was driving at about 69 on the highway. There was some traffic that included rolling downhill at about 10 mph for a few minutes. The only other difference was that normally my son likes his HVAC zone on manual so that the fan speed is constant. So 1 zone out of 4 was manual. I changed it back to Auto for all zones.

 

[Bthegreek]

This is exactly what I get in Florida with 20 inch wheels at 80 degrees weather . Not very close to advertised

 

[Bobby]

This is exactly what I get in Florida with 20 inch wheels at 80 degrees weather . Not very close to advertised

It seems you’re implying that Lucid lied. They did not. They quoted the EPA in their advertising and clearly said your results will vary. EPA is achievable when duplicating test conditions.

 

[Buffalo Bob]

Just got back from a day trip. There were some unexpected results.
Conditions: 50 Deg F ambient, mild traffic. 136 mi Total. Average highway speed on ACC was about 70 mph. It is a 2024 Air Touring on 19in with Aero Covers. 2 Adults, 2 kids in the car. HVAC in the front set to 68, rear 70. Used some seat heating and massage for 30 mins of the trip. Smooth mode with High Regen.

Since Last Charge is the full trip which included a little bit of city.
Trip A by habit I normally reset around 88-92 Kwhr to represent a full battery charge.

I thought there was something wrong with the car on the trip there with low efficiency, and then it magically made crazy efficiency on the last leg my wife was driving at about 69 on the highway. There was some traffic that included rolling downhill at about 10 mph for a few minutes. The only other difference was that normally my son likes his HVAC zone on manual so that the fan speed is constant. So 1 zone out of 4 was manual. I changed it back to Auto for all zones.

I find that conversations like this are far easier to evaluate when elevation change enroute is part of the dialogue, and on some occasions head or tailwinds to boot. For example, a lot of uphill on the cold part of the day would look awful relative to the downhill return on the warmer part of the day, and the two do not necessarily offset. Same with head or tailwinds, which can be good or bad in BOTH directions.

 

[illopp00]

I guess what I was getting at was there a significant drop in HVAC consumption between using manual and all zones in automatic? I looked up the elevation change it was about 40 ft.

 

[Buffalo Bob]

I guess what I was getting at was there a significant drop in HVAC consumption between using manual and all zones in automatic? I looked up the elevation change it was about 40 ft.

Ha! It sure wasn't the 40 feet! It's hard for me to believe that the differences in your HVAC usage would account for all that much either. Strange.

 

[Bthegreek]

It seems you’re implying that Lucid lied. They did not. They quoted the EPA in their advertising and clearly said your results will vary. EPA is achievable when duplicating test conditions.

I don’t know how you got that from my answer but ok …

 

[newlucidguy]

I guess what I was getting at was there a significant drop in HVAC consumption between using manual and all zones in automatic? I looked up the elevation change it was about 40 ft.

net elevation change of 40', correct? but hills in the middle take energy to climb and the regen is less than 100% efficient for the downhills.

 

[marsarbu]

I don’t know how you got that from my answer but ok …

Tinny teensy lil' bit of bias