Uphill range anxiety

@GordonED7​ 

Thank you so much Gordon. That is brilliant advice. ABRP tells me it will take 57% of battery power. I am reassured that my MGEVZS will get me up the mountain as I apply the driving method you advise. I’ll probably still feel a little anxious but nevertheless - that’s just me! Cheers. 

Let us know how it goes, I'm interested to see how close ABRP is to reality for other vehicles.

Unfortunately they don't have my vehicle in their selection list, so I'm fudging the variables - load, speed, battery degradation etc, with a VW IDBuzz 90kWh, and can get it fairly close much of the time.

Hi Gordon, 

I’m back home after a very successful 1600 km return trip. The car performed much better than my understanding of the prediction. I only used about 30% over 60 km  with an approx. 600 metre rise which is only about 10% more than I would have used on the flat. 2 passengers with luggage as well. Perfect weather conditions. So I am reassured. I’m very happy with the cars performance. Thank you for your communications. 

Great to hear of your successful trip :)

One thing in ABRP that can have a big impact on energy use is the settings for speed. The default speed and % of that for used for driving calculations may well have been a significant overstatement of what is possible up Clyde Mountain for sensible drivers :) That would result in less energy use than predicted by the app.