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Originally Posted by rmay635703
My electric car is up to 30miles on a charge using junkyard batteries.
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That sounds ForkenSwiftian. Tell me more.
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Milestone: best efficiency so far in 2009 in the ForkenSwift: 224 Wh/mile / 138.9 Wh/km at the plug. 150 MPGe. That's my 3rd best drive/charge cycle ever.
That was by limiting acceleration and cruising current to 50A if nobody was behind me. It took the patience of a saint to drive it like that. Also I tried upshifting sooner than normal.
To put that in perspective, 50A @ 48V is 2400 watts. 24 100 watt lightbulbs. Cars are energy hogs! :-O
EDIT: The excellent news is the efficiency will continue to improve as the ambient temps climb. It's been cool here, and the batts deliver better and better performance as they get up to about 80-90F. Haven't been close to that yet.