If needed for battery-cooling or you specified that comfort seeing, the A/C will run in the garage. In the winter, the heater will run to pre-condition the cabin too.
When your destination doesn't have a charger and you know you'll be driving later. Avoiding engine warm-up by driving exclusively in EV provides a clear overall benefit.
@@brandon654 yes, it's rather obvious on those circumstances you can avoid engine warm-up. In fact, it's blatant when I'm on vacation driving very short distances with EV rather than HV.
This is nice. But still you should remeber that this is a chemical battery. It wont like to always be charged to 2 percent discharged to zero and so on. Esoecially not, if the battery is too cold or hot. If you want your battery to stay alive for a bit longer, you should try to keep it around 50% and avoid going under 10%. But it‘s your car, your choice. Cool video
With this design, the battery won't ever get drained that much. When you see 0% on the dashboard, there is really 14% of the overall capacity still available. What's displayed for the driver is just the usable capacity. There's a hidden buffer for longevity.
Nice video! The charge mode is an excellent feature. When you charge at home does the A/C come on to cool the battery pack?
If needed for battery-cooling or you specified that comfort seeing, the A/C will run in the garage. In the winter, the heater will run to pre-condition the cabin too.
How do you decide when to use Charge mode to maximize efficiency? Would you do it as well in summer with no heater required?
When your destination doesn't have a charger and you know you'll be driving later. Avoiding engine warm-up by driving exclusively in EV provides a clear overall benefit.
@@john1701a have you done an A/B test under identical situations to verify this?
@@brandon654 yes, it's rather obvious on those circumstances you can avoid engine warm-up. In fact, it's blatant when I'm on vacation driving very short distances with EV rather than HV.
you are saying one can go on a long road trip say 300 miles and be ok with no way to charge available/
This is nice. But still you should remeber that this is a chemical battery. It wont like to always be charged to 2 percent discharged to zero and so on. Esoecially not, if the battery is too cold or hot. If you want your battery to stay alive for a bit longer, you should try to keep it around 50% and avoid going under 10%. But it‘s your car, your choice. Cool video
With this design, the battery won't ever get drained that much. When you see 0% on the dashboard, there is really 14% of the overall capacity still available. What's displayed for the driver is just the usable capacity. There's a hidden buffer for longevity.
@@john1701a ok interesting
My truck gets 13 mpg.