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Old 10-15-2009, 08:35 PM   #12
Chromer
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Originally Posted by sxotty View Post
It isn't even close to best case. I guarantee people will be able to get 80 miles on a charge if they are being all silly and trying to hypermile.
FYI, hypermiling doesn't work so well in electric-driven vehicles... In a gas motor you have efficiencies from about 5% up to about 35% depending on RPM and load. Traditional hypermiling tries to maximize the time spent in the high efficiency range (high throttle opening + closed-loop fuelling + low RPM's) and minimize time in low-efficiency range (high rpms, open-loop fueling and low-throttle-opening+low-load).

With electric motors, the efficiency curve is VERY different, and efficiencies range from the mid-70% up to the high 90% level... Pulse and glide should not be nearly as effective as in a gasser.
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