12km/h range lost watching tv...

[unclewoja]

Well this is interesting, and annoying.

According the the GOM, I've just lost 12km range in an hour of watching Netflix on my tablet and using the car stereo for sound.

Energy usage showed a constant 200w load. That should have lost me about 2km. Climate Control was off.

[hieronymous]

You haven't lost anything. The GOM tool is a(n imperfect) predictor of what you MIGHT lose if you continue consuming at the same rate until the battery is exhausted...

[4wardthinking]

I had an interesting thing today with charge/SOC.
I'm still fiddling with our battery pack as I posted a number of weeks ago(the results are not in at present).
Anyway, ours was at 3.1% yesterday evening, and I decided to put it in the right side of the garage today.
Hopped in, reversed out, and popped it in the other side.
I then had a look at SOC immediately after.
It was showing 7.8%.
So I left it to its own devices quietly buzzing away in the garage to see if it increased further, and to my surprise, 8.2% was noted.
Obviously the voice grizzling about low charge was doing its nuisance calling, and nothing on the GOM!.

I know why, but it's fascinating at first. So much re-gen from 37 meters of travel!.

Often at higher states of charge, one may cease charging at say 80%, only to return the following day to find a missing percent or so. This is the discharge/heat change inter-cell in the ensuing hours, and although SOC has lowered, the energy stored in the pack has not really changed so dramatically in reality. A mere fraction of it only. It demonstrates that SOC isn't potential stored power.

Just thought I'd post this bijoux discovery for all to ponder.

[unclewoja]

It wasn't just the GOM. I also lost 2 bars. In all probability, it wasn't 2 full bars. I'd say the first bar lost was about to disappear anyway.