jack8trades
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InsideEVs.com posts 3 YouTube videos by Winding Road.
I found it interesting to feel almost as if I was driving my own car, but what really struck me were:
1st video (I was able to embed this one, but the rest had to be links.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsPW0-F9FKY
2nd video (Walkaround)
Seems to me this car's calculation of energy consumption is way out of whack.
Some people commented on InsideEVs and YouTube that the car was really loud. I didn't find it excessively so, except thumping that I took to be expansion joints, which also affected the smoothness of the ride (i.e. camera jouncing.) It certainly didn't seem any louder on average than the Cadillac ATS-V they drove in another test (discounting the Caddy's acceleration runs which were obviously much noisier.)
08.11.2015 Edit: Noticed I'd said Eco, rather than Eco+, for last, night video @5:50 comment
I found it interesting to feel almost as if I was driving my own car, but what really struck me were:
1st video (I was able to embed this one, but the rest had to be links.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsPW0-F9FKY
- @3:13 - Avg. consumption = 16.8mpkwh, then Consumption = 15.9mpkwh -- while driving 70mph with the power needle at 2 -- I don't think so!
2nd video (Walkaround)
- @3:30 - Car info screens, showing 14.1mpkwh Extended avg. consumption over 331 miles.
- @5:50 - Changes to Eco+ mode at 65 mph, then a bit later accelerates to 70. Eco+ is supposed to limit speed to 55-60. After duplicating the sequence in my car, I surmise that the limit doesn't kick in until speed drops below the governed max.
- @6:50 to 7:08 - "Since Start" energy consumption is 17.4mpkwh even though the car apparently dropped range from 99-101 miles at start to 88 in that time, only driving 5 miles (assuming linear events in the video.) Also the battery seems to have lost over 5% which is at least 1kwh, so he should have gone 17.4+ miles with the calculated consumption.
Seems to me this car's calculation of energy consumption is way out of whack.
Some people commented on InsideEVs and YouTube that the car was really loud. I didn't find it excessively so, except thumping that I took to be expansion joints, which also affected the smoothness of the ride (i.e. camera jouncing.) It certainly didn't seem any louder on average than the Cadillac ATS-V they drove in another test (discounting the Caddy's acceleration runs which were obviously much noisier.)
08.11.2015 Edit: Noticed I'd said Eco, rather than Eco+, for last, night video @5:50 comment
