RE: It Finally Happened!
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That is really awesome. I am so excited for you. $9 for that kind of range isn't bad at all! I wonder how much it cuts into your range when you floor it like that. I am pretty heavy with the accelerator coming off tops and I am hard on my brakes coming to a stop, so I would probably kill my battery life!
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Thank you my friend. Hard accelerations definitely reduce range, as does driving over 75mph on the highway. Since it has regenerative breaking, hard decelerations actually feed more energy back into the batteries. The one pedal driving took a while to get used to. It feels like you're driving with the emergency brake on but once you get used to it is a far more efficient way to drive. I think I've only hit the actual brake pedal maybe three times in the past four days of driving.
Oh really? I guess I didn't know about the whole one pedal driving thing. I can see why that would take some time to get used to. They upped the speed limit on a lot of our expressways to 75 a couple years ago, so going 80 is a regular occurrence here :)