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Originally Posted by pgfpro
One thing I have learned with my Honda Insight more then ever is to look way ahead. The same goes with road racing etc. The Insight is a car that you really notice everything when it comes to traffic flow and aero drafting etc.
A great lesson a good friend gave me is to "control the controlables".
So in a case where I come up on a type of driver that your describing I will hopefully see them far enough ahead that it will not disrupt my fuel mileage(no braking).
Then when I get closer behind them I will get in the slower lane and give plenty of room to the people that will be fighting this driver until they eventually move over to the slow lane where then I can pass legally and safely.
One other question to you is how much on the average are you seeing in a loss of watt efficiency when you come across someone is this situation? I would think it would amount to very little? I'm not sure because I don't have a EV but with my Insight based on a high 600miles per tank I don't even think it would be a loss of .5 gallon mpg???
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The energy lost due to having to slow down and the speed back up varies, but it is actually very small. Since I am driving a super efficient EV, it is trivial. The loss is only a couple watt hours. Where the loss adds up to something significant is when you look at the steady stream of other vehicles that have to slow down and then speed up. With my research, I am focused on figuring out how much energy is lost to inopportune regen events that result from the off throttle regen configurations that manufactured and DIY EVs use, so I average my energy usage over the same routes over and over, and compare different regen configuration averages. I have found that I can increase my efficiency from 10% to 20%, depending on road conditions, when kinetic energy and regen is properly managed and off throttle regen is not used. Eco drivers or drivers who create conditions that interrupt the consistency of my speed only account for less than 1% of the kinetic energy interruption cycles that occur on my test routes. If I become the disrupter myself, the other offenders do not effect me at all.