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In timing the charge to end at (or close to) your departure time, is your goal to limit the time the battery spends at full charge? Or are you just trying to take advantage of the charging warmth to have a warmer battery when you leave? If it's the former, I'd say don't worry about it - and/or...

Thanks Rick! I had heard of the program but I haven't read any details about that standards being set for the use of the funds.

Agreed. To limit your use to 90% of your battery (meaning you charge to 100% and leave 10% buffer) you would need to average about 1.4 mi/kWh. This is reasonable for cold temps. My only hesitation would be for elevation gain, but if it's a round trip then presumably that should even out. Is...

To me, this is further reason why we really just need more chargers along highways. They don't need to be fancy, or even hyper-fast. I would settle for a single 50kW unit every 50 miles or so. You can even make them expensive to offset the installation cost and discourage casual use. But having...

This. For a one-time warmup of the cabin just set an alarm on your phone for 15 minutes prior to your intended departure and then do a remote start.

On a related note, I enjoy the full hands-free BlueCruise, but find the regular lane-assist annoying. I wish there was an indicator on the dash to let you know if you are on a road that supports hands-free.

This would be amazing - basically an app that does what I always do clumsily on the fly with my phone calculator. Wish there was a version for Android... GoM is nearly useless. Works better when using Ford Nav, but still not worthwhile. For me it ALWAYS overestimates range.

I'd say you have a rare case there. Most folks charge where they park and there is minimal effort involved with plugging in. But fine - I'll clarify. There's no benefit to the battery to run it down to 25% before charging.

There's no benefit to "run it down" to 25% before charging. It doesn't help the battery, and only leaves you at risk of having only 25% if something unexpected were to come up and you needed to drive a long way. Given your short commute, I would recommend setting your limit to 70% or 80% and...

Agreed that native route intelligence is not yet trustable. Agreed that ABRP is great. But I have also found that PlugShare has a fairly decent routing tool as well (maybe just for medium distance drives, like 200 miles or so) - especially if you want to hand-select your own chargers. You can...

I think in Sport mode the regen is a little more aggressive, throttle response is more sensitive, and the steering is stiffer (less power assist). Personally I would like to have an option in Normal mode to have the same regen setting as Sport mode. Makes 1-pedal driving easier.

Agreed. It's only in rare cases that range is a concern for me. And of those cases it's even more rare that the amount of range I lost with these tires would have made a meaningful difference to my trip.

You and I must have been separated at birth... I too have a SmartCap as well as the MIckey Thompson Baja Boss A/Ts!! And like you I also noticed quite a hit to my efficiency with those tires (SmartCap did not seem to have much effect though). Curious, what size did you run on the tires? I went a...

That is a nice setup. Do you mind sharing your efficiency stats while towing that Airstream?

Thank you for this post. PEOPLE... please stop thinking in terms of "miles". Not all miles are created equal!

What was the elevation change on the different legs of the drive?

This is important. I read somewhere that the F150 drag coefficient is something like 0.44 and the Rivian is 0.28. I have both and I can see at highway speeds I do observe a significant difference in efficiency between the two vehicles, even though they are similar in power and weight.

Aw man, forget Netflix. I would be all in for Asteroids as an infortainment feature.

Efficiency can vary WIDELY frome one mile to the next in any vehicle, but particularly in an EV where downhill miles often add power to your battery. The GoM uses an average based on some data, but even with an accurate average you will see individual miles that end up very far on either side of...

I had this question a while back. The conclusion I reached was that preconditioning the battery was useful when you want to eke out every ounce of efficiency to maximize range for a long trip, by using shore power to warm the battery instead of using battery energy to do it while driving. It's...