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A couple of people have asked me on twitter regarding my general usage patterns with my Roadster, what temps get up to in the battery and various other things.
Thought i should just give an update here so all could see.
So this morning I charged on 13amps as I hadn't driven much the day before and forgot to change it to 32amps after a cool down charge the day before that.
I got a reading from the Standard charge of 185 miles. I always quote the 'ideal range' as this is the car calculating on a specific energy usage rather than taking my different driving styles into account.
Just as a point of reference, when new the car had 191 miles on a standard charge.
One thing I need to do is to do a full range charge and get an idea of the absolute battery capacity.
At home I always charge at 32 amps. I do have an HPC but actually never use it as I am renting still and cannot bring myself to ask the landlord to install it as it is quite a big bulky item. A 32amp commando socket is far more usable to future occupants as well.
I charge off peak 95% of the time from 12 - 7am and that just about squeezes in a full charge if needed.
The other 5% of charging I would say is done shortly after I return home from a drive. I have a habit of putting it on a range charge for 20-30 mins just to bring the battery temperature down to the normal resting temperature of around 20oC. I have no idea if this is better or not for the battery but seeing as when you charge normally, if it is over around 25oC then the car initiates cooling itself so I assume that is what temps are best for the battery chemistry.
When I drive the car, despite being a racing driver, I drive pretty carefully most of the time. Sometimes, after flying back to the UK late, I will bomb along the motorways in the early hours of the morning going ever so slightly over the speed limit
but much of the timeI sit between 60 and 70mph.
As i have done almost 50,000 miles since March 2012 I clearly use the car puite a bit and as my every day car. It gets no real special love apart from the cooling cycles after long drives and in the heat of the summer.
Let me know if there are any other stats that you are interested in, I'll try and answer what I can!
Thought i should just give an update here so all could see.
So this morning I charged on 13amps as I hadn't driven much the day before and forgot to change it to 32amps after a cool down charge the day before that.
I got a reading from the Standard charge of 185 miles. I always quote the 'ideal range' as this is the car calculating on a specific energy usage rather than taking my different driving styles into account.
Just as a point of reference, when new the car had 191 miles on a standard charge.
One thing I need to do is to do a full range charge and get an idea of the absolute battery capacity.
At home I always charge at 32 amps. I do have an HPC but actually never use it as I am renting still and cannot bring myself to ask the landlord to install it as it is quite a big bulky item. A 32amp commando socket is far more usable to future occupants as well.
I charge off peak 95% of the time from 12 - 7am and that just about squeezes in a full charge if needed.
The other 5% of charging I would say is done shortly after I return home from a drive. I have a habit of putting it on a range charge for 20-30 mins just to bring the battery temperature down to the normal resting temperature of around 20oC. I have no idea if this is better or not for the battery but seeing as when you charge normally, if it is over around 25oC then the car initiates cooling itself so I assume that is what temps are best for the battery chemistry.
When I drive the car, despite being a racing driver, I drive pretty carefully most of the time. Sometimes, after flying back to the UK late, I will bomb along the motorways in the early hours of the morning going ever so slightly over the speed limit
As i have done almost 50,000 miles since March 2012 I clearly use the car puite a bit and as my every day car. It gets no real special love apart from the cooling cycles after long drives and in the heat of the summer.
Let me know if there are any other stats that you are interested in, I'll try and answer what I can!