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Driving slower to save charging stops does not pay off. Ran a 1000 km trip at every speed from 90 to 160.
Usual advice on a long EV trip is to slow down and save yourself a stop. Looks like it is backwards. Slowing to 100 costs a full hour.
Simulated against the car's charge curve and the real chargers along the route, calculated by this website: https://evtrip.dev.
Utrecht to Innsbruck, 956 km, Cupra Born 58:
90 km/h 12h19 5 stops
130 10h41 8
145 10h36 8 <- fastest
160 10h37 9
145 wins, by five minutes over 130. The top end barely matters. The bottom end costs you real time.
Does this match what people see in practice?
u/gardan4 — 8 days ago