Post #4270343

2026-07-31 07:18 UTC

It's funny how much modern #EV predicted ranges fluctuate. Obviously depending on software, but our ID.Buzz bases future range on recent past driving, I think a lot of EV brains do. It tends to do a lot of motorway and fast roads in #France and the max range prediction hovers around 320/330 kilometres. Here in #Italy it's the only car with us for a month and it's doing all the ducking about, so now the prediction is close to 400 kilometres. EVs much prefer shopping trips to motorway runs. 😅

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@neilgall@mastodon.scot 2026-07-31 07:25

@greg_harvey@tooting.ch I think EVs are very happy with both, but going faster requires more energy. It's just physics.

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@Ryanteck@fosstodon.org 2026-07-31 07:25

@greg_harvey@tooting.ch The amount of times I see posts along the lines of "when I bought this car from the dealer it showed 300 Miles of range, but I've just driven 100+ Miles at 70mph and it's now showing only 100 left." But personally I prefer that, annoyingly my LEAFs GOM doesn't seem to adapt to driving style.

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@khan_gnot@tooting.ch 2026-07-31 07:36

@greg_harvey@tooting.ch These figures for an EV are surprising, because I've experienced the opposite with my gas-powered car: I get more range on the highway than on smaller roads. Maybe on smaller roads there's more frequent deceleration, which leads to more energy recovery

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