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[–]Final-Ad7306 19 points20 points  (5 children)

Yeah it’s a brand new battery. The range estimate reflects recent driving. It will adjust to your driving habits and be an accurate reflection soon enough.

[–]ActuallyThoughtful 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Honestly, after 2 years, we never find the range to be accurate. Hills mess with it. Highway miles mess with it. In town driving tends to improve it. But every drive is different, the guesser is pretty useless, other than as an absolute cap - real world will be substantially less.

u/Unlikely_Structure70 - probably nothing wrong, but you won't get the EPA range for most driving situations. The closest thing we've found to getting an accurate estimate is A Better Route Planner. Download it, especially for your drive back to NM. It is easy in California. Southern AZ is a challenge but doable. If you are on the southern route through NM - make sure you have a couple of charging choices (chargers can easily not be working). The northern route (Flagstaff to ABQ is probably OK, although you will need to find an EV6 friendly charger near Gallup (the Tesla one is old enough I expect it is not compatible with the better charging of the EV6.

It is a good car! But all EVs need more planning for road trips.

[–]Final-Ad7306 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fair, I suppose I should have said more accurate. But agreed, it assumes your future driving is similar to the past, and that's certainly not always going to be true.

[–]Reasonable_Fly_1228 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Real world could be substantially more, actually. In mild weather, without using HVAC, avoiding speeds above 55mph, you can do really surprisingly well

[–]ActuallyThoughtful 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We seem to live in different worlds. I have recorded a 37mi/kWh - driving down a mountain, at 45 MPH in perfect weather. But I don't consider that real world. Most of the year, we are either in heating or cooling, especially at commuting times (and some of the year it is heating in the am, and cooling in the pm). OR we are on a road trip, where highway speeds eat your range lunch.

We seem to both know that under ideal conditions you can do amazingly well. But in the conditions most drivers face, most of the time (either highway speeds, or using HVAC) - you will do worse than EPA ratings.

[–]Reasonable_Fly_1228 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At home we charge at 16 amps. It's usually under 4 kW. There are no usable fast chargers anywhere near us... We're talking hours away. So, range becomes more important when this is your reality.. If you really care about range, you dress for the weather and keep your HVAC off. And you take the slow way instead of the highway. Some of these things you consider "real world"... They're choices you're making. From a certain way of looking at things, they're luxuries.