captnshrms said:
After about 1000 miles I've logged every trip and how many miles I'm at when my battery hits 20% (I use it for work, so I pretty much do this daily). And it's 24, 25 or 26 miles, and it's 25 miles 90% of the time. (That's Sur-ron miles, so minus 10% and obiviously fractions of miles aren't tracked). Sometimes I'm on all 45 mph roads and wide open throttle, sometimes I'm on a paved bike trail, not going over 25 mph and rarely stopping, and sometimes I'm in stop and go city traffic, with lots of fast acceleration and stopping.
I just found it weird that I don't really have a range, granted most of the driving is similar, but the odd driving styles I would think provide more and less range. I have a good loop so WOT was easy to test, very few stoplights, which might be why it isn't worse mileage? It's confusing to me.
Here is a dyno graph motomoto posted:
If I am reading it correctly, anything over 12-14mph (not sure what the difference of the blue/orange is, maybe two takes?), it looks like it is drawing 3.2KW (4.25HP) up to 35mph. Then over 35mph, the horsepower diminishes. I suspect even though the horsepower is diminishing, I bet it is still drawing at least ~3.2kw, it is just less efficient.
So what it means to me (and I could be wrong) is that anything over 15 mph is going to drain the battery at approximately the same rate. The only real difference would be if you switched it to EP mode. It would be interesting to see what EP mode did on the same dyno, but in my experience, it gives about 50% more range, not double...
Thoughts? Corrections? Interpretations?