What is the daily commuter range of the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV?
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
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Tested: 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV 3LT FWD
This is purely anecdotal, NOT scientific.
Also, it is NOT recommended to follow behind a truck draft as this puts you in their blind spot, but some people do use this as a technique.
In this video I see what the daily commuter range and efficiency of the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV is! This covers total range of the vehicle when average 40 mph. Let's get into it!
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Love our Equinox EV, Coming from a Bolt EV this is a world of difference.
Right now after 3330 miles our overall lifetime efficiency is sitting on 4.2 mi/kWh
That is in all types of driving here in a mountainous area of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
All my calculations on battery size concurs with your assessment.
Nice work! My average is around 3.9mi/kwh. Im in Phoenix with it being 115+ with a lot of highway driving, ive been very happy with the range. Ive loved this thing so far.
Appreciate all your hard work gathering this data for us.
Well GM is a little conservative about their battery range. Tesla is the one lying about their car range mileage, I think they got caught, and now telling the real range.
They still lie on their range figures. Heck, the Mustang Mach-E ER AWD goes just a little further than the Model Y LR AWD, but Tesla advertises a far higher figure than Ford does.
Great video! To have a better view, make a range test at 65 mph, you did already at 70, and make one at 80 mph, and put it on the same video. So everyone will have a good idea, and if possible, start doing it with all vehicles you test.
One thing you might want to note when talking about power consumption factors: Point out (for current non-EV users) that ICE vehicles are the same way. Since people don’t talk about “range” in the context of ICE vehicles, a lot of people think of this as an EV concept and the loss as why EVs are inferior to ICE vehicles.
Keep up the good work!
I was actually thinking about that when I was driving. Funny you said that! ICE totally uses more gas at higher speeds, elevation, etc. they are not exempt!
Absolutely! In general what I find talking to people about the EV is that they seem to act as though you can’t (for example) get stuck with no gas 🤷🏻♀️
We crunched the numbers and the EV costs us less than an ICE car that’s 20000$ less in sticker price, by hundreds of dollars a month.
It depends on your gas consumption of course, but it’s funny how the same people who are going on and on about the high cost of living are mad about EVs 😂😂😂
This is good information as I wait for my 3LT to arrive from Chevy
Thanks! I'm looking forward to the Supercharger session! Anytime you start seeing ~4 mi/kWh in these modern batteries, you're looking at driving for hours and hours on a single charge. I know in my local Southern California driving, I would typically see 255 to 265 miles on my original 60 kWh battery in the Bolt EV, but I would only see about 200 miles at 70-75 mph steady speed driving. On balance, that's pretty close to the EPA combined range.
One other thought for the 85 kWh Equinox EV is: The lower efficiency at freeway speeds (i.e., higher loads) could definitely be exacerbated by the pack voltage. The internal resistance would be higher at a given load than it would be in the 100 kWh Blazer EV and LYRIQ, and the motors could be seeing worse efficiency as a result of the lower input voltage. It will be interesting to see the 400 V nominal Ultium platforms when they come out. They will have lower pack energy capacities, but that might be offset by the reduced weight and increased pack voltage.
The low voltage, more resistance theory sounds very possible. Good thought!
Glad you were able to get better numbers on these other tests. Another great test would be for you to charge to 100%, and not recharge at night. Just drive around like normal, doing day to day stuff, and then when you get low battery, recharge and see what that test delivers as well.
I’m mulling over doing a how long can I go without charging video. I have to wait for school to start back up to do that. But I will!
Thanks for the more realistic daily driving test. We would do most of our driving in town and not the open highway. Our Nissan gets about 18 mpg in town and 25 on the open highway, so comparing it would appear the Chevy EV is doing very well.
264 for the highway is not bad. 4 mi/kWh for combined is amazing in my book. My Model 3 was never that efficient even in Chill mode. 85 kWh is the usable range of the pack. Gross is most likely what the OBD was giving.
I actually measured the amount I pulled out of the battery. It was 89 kWh. Confirmed it on a charge session as well with losses accounted for.
I believe the 89kwh is the total size and the 85 is the usable capacity. GM reserve some to help with battery life. As you have 21 inch wheels I would expect with 19 inch wheels your numbers may be about 10% higher. Thanks for posting this info. I test drove one and liked it. It wasn't as quick as my bolt. But I am going to try to test drive am all wheel drive model soon.
That’s what I thought, but I have pulled out (energy used) 89 (the car actually said 90). I have also measured the energy put back in minus losses which also added up to 89.
The math for the range and consumption also adds up to 89kWh. Weird I know.
The 19 and 21s have the same diameter with tire included. The 19s have a larger side profile than 21s. The 21s are slightly wider. There shouldn’t be much of a difference between the two.
Let me know what you think of the AWD!
Thanks for all the info. I’m a Lyft driver, thinking about getting a 2lt front wheel drive Equinox. If I charge to the 80% down to 15%~20% recommended level can you estimate what would be the range with mixed driving?
With mixed driving you can probably expect 300 on a full charge. I did a test once average 40 mph and got about 320-340 miles. So you could certainly do better!
Charging from 20-80% will also prevent the GM dip from happening and save some time charging as well!
5:01 you mention you were going to go charge at a Tesla supercharger. Is this possible for Chevy vehicles at this time? I didn't know they had opened it up yet. Do you have an adapter?
Via magic dock sites yes! But there are very few of these sites.
I have an adapter but cannot use it until they open the whole network. I will make a huge deal about it the day it happens! No worries!
Most probably EPA numbers are calculated at 50 mi/h?
There are different cycles they can run it through. They can pick and choose. So GM likely picked the best result that looked good on paper. Other companies pick the most realistic. Some even rate it lower, like Porsche. There needs to be standardization.
Need to be dangerously close to another vehicle for drafting to really work.
To have a huge difference, yes. Not recommended, but people do it. Mythbusters actually tested this and even at 50 and 100ft away there is a notable difference when following behind a truck.
Today I got news that my battery needs to be replaced. Three week old😢
Really? Why? What did they say? Was anything weird happening?
@@theaverageev still trying to figure out what the hell is going on. On Saturday night, the check engine light came on and then it’s severe high voltage issue bulletin came up reduce speed and turtle mode had to press the check button several times to clear it all do not really think much of it. I thought it was just going to reset itself. When I got back home, I plugged in the car and it charged only at 5.5 kW but they’re not notice that because it’s being charged overnight the next morning my wife and I had a trip planned which was about two hours away the message reappeared again. I thought that it would just go away. on our way back home we stopped by a charger and it would not initiate a charge with drove about an hour to a charger and again it would not charge. Now super concerned because we had a 3 mile bumper we decided to take the local roads and charge at a ChargePoint 7 kW charger and again it would not charge. Continue the ride home and try to plug in at home and again would not charge. this morning I made a phone call to the dealership. We went to drop it off and wait and after two hours, they told us that there was a major issue and that they were going to give us a rented vehicle. The word came back as the battery needs to be replaced. I asked which battery and the advisor had no clue that I even had a low voltage battery. Tomorrow, I will be stopping by the dealership and figuring out all the details I asked him has they checked the fusesbut again more of a dumbfounded answer so I need to get to the end of this I will keep everyone posted.
This is not my first rodeo. I had a Tesla for nine months and put 60,000 miles on it. Unfortunately, I think I am more proficient in electric cars than the service advisor so I’m a little concerned.
What battery?? The 12 volt battery or the big, high voltage battery that propels the car?
@@mondogomez5 You put 60,000 miles on a car in 9 months?