EV Range Test Results

Yeah.

So it is a real world highway range test for these electric vehicles.

We conducted at 70 miles an hour out on highways in Connecticut.

And we have test parameters and conditions set up that we try to basically be as fair as we can to every different car.

We can't test them all in the same day.

So we have a weather range or temperature range.

I should say, you know, we don't run in the rain and things like that.

And all of our drivers are trained to in both the data collection side, but also just how we operate the vehicle so we can be as even across the board in our testing right and we just want to see how far will these cars go on the highway on a single charge at 70 miles an hour right right

and i mean why why are we doing this right i mean this is a lot of work right to drive what amounts to hours

yeah i mean some people spend their summer at the beach we spend them in electric vehicles on the highway um so the why is if you own an electric vehicle or you're thinking about electric vehicle, when you're driving to and from work, you know, you're sort of within your little bubble, right? You have your, maybe your home charging infrastructure, you know, the places where you can charge on the road where you go.

But if you're thinking about doing a road trip in one, you're away from home, it'd be nice to know how far the car will go, what you can expect.

It would be nice to know how the vehicle behaves as it gets low on state of charge because you don't know necessarily where you're going to be able to charge.

You're out on the road, you know, you're hopefully not using your phone, you're using a native nav, you have a co-pilot who's trying to find that charging location, it's just nice to be able to kind of have an understanding of what this car is going to do.

Yeah, you know, if you have an EV with 300 miles of range, it becomes somewhat of a convenience during the week, right? Or, you know, you're commuting, maybe you don't have to charge it every single day, but when you're going on that long trip to an unfamiliar place, that's when you really need to know, we feel, how far your car is going to be able to go.

Yeah, and you

might push to a lower SOC on a road trip than you do in your average day-to-day, which may or may not be a good idea.

At least if you know I'm headed home and it usually takes me 12% to get there, I'm very comfortable pushing that car on the way home.

As it turns out, I'm actually very comfortable pushing a car now,

really low anyway, having done all of this.

And spoiler alert, that depends what car

you're

in.

It sure does.

What brand you're in, especially.

Right, right.