3000km on one tank….too bad I have to fill up this weekend.
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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?
- Thread starter PrivatePilot
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DAMN
Yup….3000 boring, uneventful, soulless kilometres….
jdmsteR
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Are you driving like there's eggshells under the throttle? I imagine this being borderline hypermiling but kudos to you if that isn't the case
Impressive if not!
It's a volt. The primary factor determining range is how often you travel more than battery range without plugging in.
jdmsteR
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Care to further explain? I'm not a volt enthusiast
I figure he drives a reasonable mileage everyday in the city
As a hybrid, this seems like the best (practical) option for most people
He gets somewhere between 50 and 70 km on battery. If his commute is 5 km longer than his battery capacity he only uses a litre a week. The volt will start the engine every once in a while to make sure it is happy and get it up to temp so that makes sure a tank lasts no more than about six months. If it's really cold, it runs the engine to make heat.
I have a charger at work, and at home so my 110km round trip is on electricity.
Wife uses it for her work and if she had a busy day MAYBE she will use 1-2L of fuel in a day.
I don’t drive it like it’s on eggshells at all, just fortunate that my commute is covered by EV.
Reason I need to fill up is I have a long trip planned tonight….so won’t reach it on EV. About 220km.
EDIT: To @GreyGhost point, Gen1 Volts are around 70km range on EV in the summer and 50km in the winter. Gen2 (mine) is 100km down to 70km. So better range. I’m traffic you can do 125-130km easy. But the range gets eaten up quick above 120km/h.
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go big or go home?
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9000 lbs??? Hahahaha. I knew it was big but that's funny. 3000 lbs of that is battery.go big or go home?
2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Defies Classification
GMC's new 1000-hp electric pickup is as unique as it is awesome.
C'mon, everybody needs one, thats why GM made it.
this thing is seriously going to kill or seriously injure a lot of people.
0-60 in 3s, 1/4 mi in 11 something but stopping distance of an HD dually with more weight/momentum.
oh and I forgot, and driven by idiots.
At some point in time someone will have to put a stop to this.
When you have cars that can go from 0-60 in <5s...there's zero need on the street for that. Majority of people are fairly consistent with their driving...but to have that type of power on the street requires serious skill. Simply hitting the GO pedal and holding on is NOT the right way.
Oh c'mon, put it in sport mode lol.
Meh, the acceleration will get people in trouble, but I'm sure it has lots of babysitters for stability and such, and probably massive brakes.
Not much different than someone who's never driven anything bigger than a Honda Civic all his life going out and buying a 3500 diesel dually and a 40 foot fifth wheel and heading off onto the 401 with his G license.
the problem is the big difference between acceleration and braking. the thing is seriously under-braked.
the 3500 diesel dually accelerates slow and brakes slow.
this thing accelerates faster than a lot of bikes and 90% of the cars on the road but brakes like a dually. also weighs more than one.
no nanny collision prevention or pedestrian safety will stop you faster than the braking limit.
Why do you think it brakes so poorly? Combining regenerative plus mechanical brakes, it should be able to stop faster than it accelerates.
Made it to the cottage and back without filling up! 3600km on the clock now.
Stupid 'LOW FUEL' light is on though...so I don't know how far I can venture now lol. I wouldn't go too far beyond EV range right now.
Stupid 'LOW FUEL' light is on though...so I don't know how far I can venture now lol. I wouldn't go too far beyond EV range right now.
Those brakes would need to be massive to stop 9,000lbs of kinetic energy.
The motors/batteries/electronics are obviously capable of rapidly adding energy, they should be able to remove a lot of it too (although probably not quite as much, what is the rapid charge limit on it a few hundred kw? You might be able to exceed that as you are only talking a few seconds of input instead of many minutes).
The tesla model s plaid has the same issue of accelerating faster than it can brake. not sure why.
my only guess is that maybe they've maxed the charge rate on the battery or charger.
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