Just Another Perfect Day in The World’s Best Damn Car

[Blue Lectroid]

120 miles today. Combination of highway / around town (70/30), temps between 36 and 46. Everything in the car worked perfectly (mobile key, HA, SSP, etc.)

Averaged 3.98 mi/kWh.

Car drives like an absolute dream. Finished the day at the local $11 hand car wash to get rid of the road salt.

Just thought this Forum could use a little dose of a typical day with a ‘25 AGT.

Oh yes, I needed to make a service appointment to deal with two small trim adjustments we noticed on my original delivery day. Placed a phone call to Customer Care at 9:00am, got through after a one minute hold and appointment was made. Fantastic service if you ask me…

 

[borski]

Averaged 3.98 mi/kWh.

Too high. Do better.

 

[fisheral]

120 miles today. Combination of highway / around town (70/30), temps between 36 and 46. Everything in the car worked perfectly (mobile key, HA, SSP, etc.)

Averaged 3.98 mi/kWh.

Car drives like an absolute dream. Finished the day at the local $11 hand car wash to get rid of the road salt.

Just thought this Forum could use a little dose of a typical day with a ‘25 AGT.

Oh yes, I needed to make a service appointment to deal with two small trim adjustments we noticed on my original delivery day. Placed a phone call to Customer Care at 9:00am, got through after a one minute hold and appointment was made. Fantastic service if you ask me…

Can you tell me your secret to getting that mi/kWh? Is it just the heat pump? I've never been able to get over very low 3's since it got cold, even with keeping the car plugged in and the battery preconditioned immediately before using it for gentle 65-70mph highway driving.

 

[DeaneG]

Can you tell me your secret to getting that mi/kWh? Is it just the heat pump? I've never been able to get over very low 3's since it got cold, even with keeping the car plugged in and the battery preconditioned immediately before using it for gentle 65-70mph highway driving.

Short trips are much less efficient, as the car interior + 1200lbs of battery need to be brought up to temperature.

 

[Blue Lectroid]

Can you tell me your secret to getting that mi/kWh? Is it just the heat pump? I've never been able to get over very low 3's since it got cold, even with keeping the car plugged in and the battery preconditioned immediately before using it for gentle 65-70mph highway driving.

First off, I am 99% sure I misspoke in my original post…I am pretty darn sure I averaged 4.28 mi/kWh today, NOT 3.98. My brain just mis-remembered EPA as an even 4.0 as I was writing the post, and I knew that I ended the ride at the last 8 hundredths before EPA. I never got to actual average EPA today but at one point was at 4.33 on the day. So @borski I guess I did do better (at least today…with efficiency, at least!)

I don’t really have any secrets other than having a ‘25 model which definitely helps, thinking ahead and driving reasonably. For today’s trip rather than charging to 80% last night (as I normally do every night), I set the charge level to 75%. Then, an hour before I left this morning I started the car charging to 80% and 15 minutes before I left I turned the climate to 68. That’s it, really, then I just drove.

I was able to shut climate off for around the last 35 miles because the sun came out temps climbed into the 40’s and the cabin was just fine without heat.

I definitely was NOT driving the car hard today, but I also wasn’t really driving for range…just accelerating reasonably (still leaving every car behind me coming away from stop lights) and topped out at less than 75 on the highway…probably averaged right around 70…

To me getting this kind of range is not hard. It must also be the way I drive because this has been a theme with me thus far here, in the Tesla forum back in 2018 with my M3P and the Volt Forum way back when. I would experience range numbers that seemed higher than many on the Forums were getting. I really believe that driving EV’s for range is a learned skill that’s very different than we got used to in ICE vehicles. I spent a lot of time experimenting with my first Volt back in 2011…but definitely having a nice warm battery and cabin before you leave on a cold day is job 1…