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EV Today: Need more Range? Switch to Sports

Source: Electric Car Scheme

EVs are currently a totally new technology which is emerging in today’s time. As a result, many new owners and potential buyers has great interest in knowing about their functioning and how they perform under extreme tests. This is also leading to a huge confusion among potential EV buyers about what kw of battery will give a particular amount of range. This becomes even complex as its not constant always. Several factors affect the range which you can extract from a particular battery capacity.

List of factors which can affect the range of an electric vehicle are listed below

1.       Tyre pressure

2.       Wind Resistance (Car Aerodynamics)

3.       Car Weight

4.       Tyre profile

5.       Driving pattern

6.       Battery Capacity

7.       Motor Power and Efficiency and many more.

As we can see lots of factors can affect the range which electric car can deliver. So even the same car with same battery pack can deliver different ranges. This will be greatly dependent on the driving pattern of the car owner.

General Misconception

Eco mode will give more range than City mode, which will further give more range than Sports Mode. Yes, this is a misconception…

How to get desired range even in Sports mode.

There are just 2 simple steps to get your desired range. No big headache of setting modes, setting regen. Forget everything and just follow simple steps and you will get the range.

1.       Set the tyre pressure to 2-3 psi more than recommended by manufacturer.

2.       Keep watch over the drive power used by the Motor. You can see the drive power used over here in your car.

All you have to do is use as minimum bars of drive power as possible to gain your desired speed. Then maintain that desired speed with minimum drive power bars. So, moral of the story is whole game is of drive power. Just keep it to minimum level for gaining the speed you require and you will get range irrespective of Modes, Speed, Highway or City. Nothing else matters, just use this and you will get range. Keep regen to level 1 only. When brake usage is required, use them mildly. Mild break usage brings regen to level 2 automatically. So result is minimum usage of actual brakes.

In reality, sports mode has better throttle response and hence will give better range than other modes. Better throttle response will help you have better control over drive power during driving.

Result

I have got maximum range of upto 370 kms in 35 kw battery. 

Some good examples  of people getting good ranges with AC full time ON


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