Many factors affect the range of an electric car. You can do little about driving, temperature and topography, while driving style and how warm you need to be in the car can be affected.
Tips for driving in winter weather
In addition, the range is also affected more if you use a ski box on the roof than if you pack the car full.
This is revealed in a range test carried out by the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association.
They report this themselves in a press release.
Loading the car full has little effect on the range
Payload has been a much-discussed topic in recent years, especially for electric cars.
Some models have an impractically low payload. This is something you must be aware of if you often transport a lot of people and luggage.
In a test, carried out in 6-14 minus degrees on a salt-wet motorway, it turned out, however, that the maximum payload did not result in a large increase in power consumption when driving at 80 km/h.
The Tesla Model Y got just under ten percent extra consumption compared to when there was only a driver in the car, while the Polestar 2 increased by around seven percent.
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Test of Polestar 2 and Tesla Model Y with ski box
The two cars were tested with a ski box on the roof, in addition to maximum payload. This had a far greater impact on consumption than on driving with only payload.
– Anything that protrudes from the bodywork will increase air resistance and thus affect the range, says test manager Ståle Frydenlund at the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association in the press release.
Model Y increased power consumption by 35 percent, and thus lost a third of the range, compared to driving at 80 km/h with only the driver in the car.
– The reason lies in the fact that the car is very energy efficient in the first place, and thus gets a bigger bonus with a ski box of this type on the roof.
The Polestar 2 had a more common markup. With the ski box on the roof, electricity consumption increased by 16 per cent, but it also had significantly higher consumption in the first place.
– Increased consumption is not a problem as long as you are aware of the physical effect the ski box has on the car, and also not as long as your car charges quickly, says Ståle Frydenlund.
Here, preheating before fast charging is the key word, and we have also tested this thoroughly this winter.
2024-02-16 19:25:06
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