Is it cold where you're at? Even if you don't run the climate control system, that battery heaters will run when it's cold out and they can significantly reduce your range. They are simple resistance heaters and can draw up to 2.4kw IIRC. The cabin heater is also just a resistance heater,it can draw up to either 7.4 or 9kw (seen conflicting info), obviously it can also have a significant impact on range when it's running. Mine cabin heater recently turned on automatically for a early morning trip and when I noticed and turned it off, my (estimated)range jumped up by almost 60 miles.
-Pete. My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key December 20, 2021 6:54 PM, "mark hanson via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My 260 mile $30K Chevy Bolt 2020 range dropped to 210 this year. I normally > charge to 80% for local trips (although that tidbit is missing from the > manual/display unlike the Leaf & Tesla). When I charge to 100% last month > it was still about 260 miles, now this week it dropped to 210 miles. I read > that there were some battery issues at 100% (maybe because they didn't tell > folks to charge to 80% for local use). The battery was advertised as 64KWH > although it's stamped underneath at 62KWH but now behaving like a 50KWH or > 80% battery pack. I wonder if the Mother Ship downloaded a 80% operation > through OnStar that it has (but I didn't pay for)? > > Has anyone had this happened on their Bolt. I was going to buy a cheaper > 210 mile Leaf, but bought the Bolt for the longer range, oops - now the same > as the cheaper Leaf. > > The Tesla Y at the same 21K miles is still doing 325 miles range and charges > *much* faster (up to 200KW pre-cooling the pack), more fast charging > stations through the easy to use GPS. > > Have a renewable energy day, > > Mark > > Mark E. Hanson > > 184 Vista Lane > > Fincastle, VA 24090 > > 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell > > REEVA: community service RE & EV project club > > Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) > > UL Certified PV Installer > > My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh > > REEVA Demo: <http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0> http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0 > > <https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/a88920376f864ecabaed843dd89 > 75b8d/signature> Fincastle Solar Weather Station > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20211220/154ad7ad/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
