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Old 09-21-2009, 09:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Some preliminary results -

5 mile drive - 1.16 kwh - 232 wh/mile

7 mile drive - 1.58 kwh - 226 wh/mile

9 mile drive - 2.01 kwh - 223 wh/mile

This fits well with previous charging experience in this car - shorter trips tend to be less efficient. The past long-term average for my Citicar has been about 250 wh/mile.

I measure electric use with a kill-a-watt meter.

Unfortunately, the longer trip mentioned in the previous post (20 miles) was recharged away from a meter, so no data for that segment.

But based on these representative trips, the wh/mile has improved by about 10%. The only change I've done to the Citicar for the past few months was the differential oil change earlier this week. More data in a few days...
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