23 Miles Electric, 93 miles on gas at 49.4 MPG in 26 deg. weather.
The our old Prius could not have got that mileage, esp in those temps.!
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
23 Miles Electric, 93 miles on gas at 49.4 MPG
Made a little trip South this AM. in the Volt.
23 Miles Electric, 93 miles on gas at 49.4 MPG in 26 deg. weather.
The our old Prius could not have got that mileage, esp in those temps.!
23 Miles Electric, 93 miles on gas at 49.4 MPG in 26 deg. weather.
The our old Prius could not have got that mileage, esp in those temps.!
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Over 1000 miles on this tank of Fuel!
WOW! Today, I noticed that we have over 1000 miles on this tank of fuel!
This is not a huge milestone for many Volt owners but it sure is for me!
This was never possible with our 2006 Prius.
I think the best we ever had in the Prius was around 430 miles on one tank. The tank in the Volt is even smaller than the Prius too!
The Prius has a 10 Gallon tank and the Volt is 9.5 Gallon tank.
And I have not had any range anxiety like I had with the S10 EV that I built.
It is so nice to be able to take a drive and not worry about being able to get home before the battery pack was flat!
This is not a huge milestone for many Volt owners but it sure is for me!
This was never possible with our 2006 Prius.
I think the best we ever had in the Prius was around 430 miles on one tank. The tank in the Volt is even smaller than the Prius too!
The Prius has a 10 Gallon tank and the Volt is 9.5 Gallon tank.
And I have not had any range anxiety like I had with the S10 EV that I built.
It is so nice to be able to take a drive and not worry about being able to get home before the battery pack was flat!
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Energy Display Readings New Years Day 2014
Happy New Year!
I hope that this is a good year. To start the new year off I recorded the mileage of the Volt, the vehicle displays and the Kw meter reading.
The Volt displays,
We reset the "A" Trip Odometer, when we refuel the Volt.
This picture of the "A" trip ODO screen shows 500.1 miles on this tank, with a fuel usage of 1.8 Gal. of Fuel. For an average fuel economy reading on this tank of fuel of over 250 mpg.
This picture of the main stack display shows the Energy Information.
This is typical 18.2 miles and used 6.3 Kw of electricity or about 3 miles per Kw.
The usage of the Electric Heated Seats and Interior Cabin Climate Controls cause this number to change slightly. It is higher in the colder weather because of the climate settings.
This screen also shows a Lifetime MPG of 106 MPG!
This is the "B" Trip ODO screen, we reset the mileage on this screen to "0" when we bought the Volt.
So, the miles shown on this display show the miles that we have driven the Volt under our ownership.
It also displays the Gallons of Fuel used and the AVG. Miles per gallon during our ownership of the Volt.
We hope to never reset this "B" trip ODO, so that it will always give us this, our driving, information.
This is the EKM Kw meter it says that to this point we have used 320.54 Kw to recharge the Volt.
This display is not resettable, so this number will need to read periodically to see recharge energy usage.
The Kw meter was installed on the 11th of Dec, 2013, so it has been in operation recording my to-date electrical usage to recharge the Volt.
Our local Idaho Power utility rate is typically $.10 per Kw. So it is pretty easy to estimate my recharge costs by moving the decimal in the Kw reading one place to the left. This number is the one $ amount of the current meter reading.
320.54Kw X $.10 = $32.05 to recharge from the 11th of Dec. to today (Jan 1, 2014).
I hope that this is a good year. To start the new year off I recorded the mileage of the Volt, the vehicle displays and the Kw meter reading.
The Volt displays,
We reset the "A" Trip Odometer, when we refuel the Volt.
This picture of the "A" trip ODO screen shows 500.1 miles on this tank, with a fuel usage of 1.8 Gal. of Fuel. For an average fuel economy reading on this tank of fuel of over 250 mpg.
This is typical 18.2 miles and used 6.3 Kw of electricity or about 3 miles per Kw.
The usage of the Electric Heated Seats and Interior Cabin Climate Controls cause this number to change slightly. It is higher in the colder weather because of the climate settings.
This screen also shows a Lifetime MPG of 106 MPG!
So, the miles shown on this display show the miles that we have driven the Volt under our ownership.
It also displays the Gallons of Fuel used and the AVG. Miles per gallon during our ownership of the Volt.
We hope to never reset this "B" trip ODO, so that it will always give us this, our driving, information.
This is the EKM Kw meter it says that to this point we have used 320.54 Kw to recharge the Volt.
This display is not resettable, so this number will need to read periodically to see recharge energy usage.
The Kw meter was installed on the 11th of Dec, 2013, so it has been in operation recording my to-date electrical usage to recharge the Volt.
Our local Idaho Power utility rate is typically $.10 per Kw. So it is pretty easy to estimate my recharge costs by moving the decimal in the Kw reading one place to the left. This number is the one $ amount of the current meter reading.
320.54Kw X $.10 = $32.05 to recharge from the 11th of Dec. to today (Jan 1, 2014).
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