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Bookmark or Share- Optimum PHEV driving on a motorway? - Speak EVConsider when is best to use the battery. For me it's only a couple of miles to the motorway, so on a long journey I hit the "save" button as I enter the motorway. This gives the battery some space for spare energy and saves the battery for the likely hold-ups. You can go a very long way in a phev at 30 mph on the M6 around Brum.
- Leaving a PHEV at 100% | Speak EV - Electric Car ForumsAmpera only operated over 65% of the battery range, I think 20% to 85% SOC. Typically it gets a range of 40-45miles using 10.5 kWh of the theoretical 16 possible. Otoh the battery in the Hyundai Ioniq Phev with 39 miles claimed range is only 8.9 kWh, so I suspect that modern Phevs are pushing the batteries just as hard as the full BEV versions.
- Battery degradation phev | Speak EV - Electric Car ForumsI have a 2019 phev and now has 33000 on the clock. I purchased as a demo when it had 5000 on the clock so I have done 28000 in 1 year. my actuall measured range has gone down more than 15% and using the watchdog app it agrees with my measured. the dealer has just completed a test at the request of mitsubushi with a full battery.
- EV Wachdog App | Speak EV - Electric Car ForumsFollowing the PHEV Watchdog App (which supports the Outlander PHEV, Kia Niro PHEV, Kia Optima PHEV and Hyundai Ioniq PHEV) and after some requests I've decided to create a new Android (only) monitoring App for Kia and Hyundai EV models.
- Mini Countryman SE All 4 Phev broken - Speak EVFirst Mini PHEV the technician had ever seen, and no record of this failure with any Countryman in the UK to date. A few hard resets (disconnect the 12v battery, wait 5 minutes, reconnect) they admitted defeat and it was recovered to Sytner Leicester.
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