Road trip to Southern New Hampshire today to visit with the in-laws (my wife Marie's sister)
Started out with a chilly 40 degree air temp, truck pre conditioned for ~15 minutes, to warm cabin, seats and steering wheel, that took 2KWH on the juice meter on the garage, $0.52 shore power, battery at 95%, projected range 298 miles ~08:30 am
The drive north uneventful but conservatively driven to get my cool weather base line understood, maintaining 66 MPH on the highways, 95, 495, 3, arrived ~10:00 am with 66% remaining. Average 2.2 mi/kWh, we used some cabin heating around 68º. I got a reasonable good driving score of 89%
The trip home started with 59º air temp's less heat, seats off, steering wheel off, nly bumped up cabin temps and seat as we were 3/4 along in the drive home. Stopped for pizza before heading to the house, driving a 66 MPH once again and traffic was good except as we passed by the Patriots game letting out with traffic on 495 & 95 congested a bit. Much better 2.5 mi/kWh rating, improved driver rating and regenerative braking
We burned through 61% of the battery SOC, including side trips to lunch and evening pizza, imputed 80 kWh's, while the two ford pass charts show about 70 kWh, going with the higher 80 kWh measure at 26 cents a kWh National Grid cost which I will replenish on Tuesday evening after I burn the battery down a bit more on Monday and Tuesday. That could come in around $20.80, then a TOU credit of $2.40 for a net cost of $18.40 total of 177.7 miles for the day, netting 10.35 cents a mile.
If I had made this trip in my old F250 PSD, it would have required ~11 gallons of diesel at a cost of $4.699 a gallon or $51.69 trip cost, to make diesel a break-even fuel its price needs to drop to $1.553/gal
I will repeat this study on Thanksgiving day when we repeat the same route but in colder weather!
Started out with a chilly 40 degree air temp, truck pre conditioned for ~15 minutes, to warm cabin, seats and steering wheel, that took 2KWH on the juice meter on the garage, $0.52 shore power, battery at 95%, projected range 298 miles ~08:30 am
The drive north uneventful but conservatively driven to get my cool weather base line understood, maintaining 66 MPH on the highways, 95, 495, 3, arrived ~10:00 am with 66% remaining. Average 2.2 mi/kWh, we used some cabin heating around 68º. I got a reasonable good driving score of 89%
The trip home started with 59º air temp's less heat, seats off, steering wheel off, nly bumped up cabin temps and seat as we were 3/4 along in the drive home. Stopped for pizza before heading to the house, driving a 66 MPH once again and traffic was good except as we passed by the Patriots game letting out with traffic on 495 & 95 congested a bit. Much better 2.5 mi/kWh rating, improved driver rating and regenerative braking
We burned through 61% of the battery SOC, including side trips to lunch and evening pizza, imputed 80 kWh's, while the two ford pass charts show about 70 kWh, going with the higher 80 kWh measure at 26 cents a kWh National Grid cost which I will replenish on Tuesday evening after I burn the battery down a bit more on Monday and Tuesday. That could come in around $20.80, then a TOU credit of $2.40 for a net cost of $18.40 total of 177.7 miles for the day, netting 10.35 cents a mile.
If I had made this trip in my old F250 PSD, it would have required ~11 gallons of diesel at a cost of $4.699 a gallon or $51.69 trip cost, to make diesel a break-even fuel its price needs to drop to $1.553/gal
I will repeat this study on Thanksgiving day when we repeat the same route but in colder weather!
