speedracercjr
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I honestly don't rememberWas the wind from the S/SE when you drove to D?
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I honestly don't rememberWas the wind from the S/SE when you drove to D?
10-4 —— just curious as I await to start driving my EB after I have it blacked out and paint protected. I drop it off tomorrow morning to have all the work done on it. Will have it back in 7-10 days!I honestly don't remember
The DTE (miles to empty) is a constantly changing 'best guesstimate' based on your most recent past miles and associated mileage. If your most recent miles were at a low MPG, the miles to empty will be a smaller value than if your most recent miles were at a high MPG. And yes, due to that it's possible for DTE to go from fewer miles to more miles and back again or vice-versa even as you are using gas to drive.Why is the miles-to-empty gauge so off?
Buyer2021, thanks for the reply. I’ll let MTE indicator drop to single digit then fill to see what comes back. The odd aspect of this is I have not carried heavy loads, or traveled off paved roads.The DTE (miles to empty) is a constantly changing 'best guesstimate' based on your most recent past miles and associated mileage. If your most recent miles were at a low MPG, the miles to empty will be a smaller value than if your most recent miles were at a high MPG. And yes, due to that it's possible for DTE to go from fewer miles to more miles and back again or vice-versa even as you are using gas to drive.
Bottom line, the vehicle has no way of knowing how you will drive, terrain, load, etc in the future, so it can only go by what your most recent past behavior is; change that behavior and the DTE will change, too.
I don't know how many miles into the past the algorithm considers, but it's certainly much less than the miles a tank will carry you (IOW, the MPG average since last fill up isn't any indicator for estimating DTE).
Lesson: Take the DTE with a large dose of salt unless you have been driving in very consistent instantaneous MPG conditions and will continue to do that for the remainder of the tank.
Nothing odd in that at all. Just the normal MPG variations associated with urban / suburban / highway / idle-time mix can have a meaningful impact.The odd aspect of this is I have not carried heavy loads, or traveled off paved roads.
well i feel better i have 17.7 showing right now for instant mpgI’m seeing the following numbers and don’t understand what’s going on. Can someone explain?
2022 EB Platinum. 36 gal tank. Driving mostly local roads @45 mph.
Odometer is 1512 miles.
Average MPG is 16.6.
With 98 miles showing on the miles-to-empty gauge, I filled the tank which took 25.5 gals. That means I had 10 gals remaining before the fill. After the fill, the miles-to-empty was 560 miles.
Why is the miles-to-empty gauge so off?