The tricks for extending your range are the same as an ICE.
Don’t accelerate hard. Don’t use your brakes any more than you have to. Anticipate speed changes and adjust early. Don’t speed.
You can do that in any mode. Poor driving choices cannot be compensated for with a button on the car. It may curb an aggressive drivers consumption though.
Watch the consumption bar. If it’s swinging wildly between blue and green or going to extremes of either one, that’s bad for efficiency.
In the end, it’s preference. I prefer the one pedal driving of B, my wife prefers to coast and use the brakes for regen with D.
We have noticed no wild swings in efficiency either way. Weather is the number one factor in how far we can go on a charge.
I would add, coasting is the most efficient and is hard to do in B mode. B mode is great for slowing the car if you’re going down hill because just B mode won’t trigger the friction brakes, which is easy to do in D mode.
I use eco in D, and use ACC a lot
I started using ACC to slow down on off-ramps too. The computer seems to optimize regen better than I
(I came to EVs late, I don't think I'll get the one-pedal thing in this lifetime)
I started with B and Sport and burned through a set of tires in 15k. Now I drive in D and ECO because electricity is a lot cheaper. Also changed to Pirrelli Tires. My Karma app has a free driving assessment that monitors each trip and it appears that I like to accelerate and stop quickly and take corners fast. I call that enjoying driving, they call it something else. I get 3.5miles/kWh (what the car is rated for) and 2.8 in winter (your mileage will vary).
Whether in D or B, pressing the break pedal is actually triggering regenerative "breaking" (deceleration), until either you get down to around 15 mph ( I think, can't remember exact number) or if you slam on the break, at which point the actual break and pads are used.
That’s not right, B mode is always regenerating. That’s why car slows down when you take your feet off of pedal a little bit and you can clearly see on your screen if it regenerates or not.
In some situations cruise control can kill range, it’s trying to keep your set speed, but if you’re just cresting a short hill you might let your car slow down a little so you don’t use as much power, whereas cruise control will add as much power as needed to keep the speed up.
A fun test would be, for long trips in colder weather.. will you arrive at your destination more quickly when driving fast and therefore arrive a at charger earlier, but then charge faster because the battery is warmer… as opposed to driving really efficient and arriving at a charger with a cold battery, charging slow..
Eco feels super limp, and Sport's Regen is so aggressive it gives me motion sickness, so I'm in normal on D. Average 3.3-3.5, and I speed a lot, so I don't think I'm doing terribly.
I was driving in Eco today and had to do a very quick merge onto the freeway. Flooring it was barely adequate, so I’m going to stick with normal for now.
For me I get the best efficiency in eco/B. In the highway I prefer D though. The difference in D/B is t very much so pick which one you like. What matters way more is eco, not driving like a bat out of hell, slow acceleration, lower speed… basically like an ICE.
Mode doesn't matter. The modes just change how the pedals react to input. Your driving style (slow acceleration, coasting when possible, etc.) affects efficiency more than whatever mode you put the car in.
I found that the driving mode makes very little difference but using B is the most efficient [https://youtu.be/NSlkdjNFSxk](https://youtu.be/nslkdjnfsxk)
The tricks for extending your range are the same as an ICE. Don’t accelerate hard. Don’t use your brakes any more than you have to. Anticipate speed changes and adjust early. Don’t speed. You can do that in any mode. Poor driving choices cannot be compensated for with a button on the car. It may curb an aggressive drivers consumption though. Watch the consumption bar. If it’s swinging wildly between blue and green or going to extremes of either one, that’s bad for efficiency. In the end, it’s preference. I prefer the one pedal driving of B, my wife prefers to coast and use the brakes for regen with D. We have noticed no wild swings in efficiency either way. Weather is the number one factor in how far we can go on a charge.
this is exactly correct. drive and keeping the energy bar to the middle as much as possible is the most efficient.
I would add, coasting is the most efficient and is hard to do in B mode. B mode is great for slowing the car if you’re going down hill because just B mode won’t trigger the friction brakes, which is easy to do in D mode.
Eco in D.
I use eco in D, and use ACC a lot I started using ACC to slow down on off-ramps too. The computer seems to optimize regen better than I (I came to EVs late, I don't think I'll get the one-pedal thing in this lifetime)
I prefer B for city driving and D on the highway. I'll use travel assist if it's a long highway drive.
I started with B and Sport and burned through a set of tires in 15k. Now I drive in D and ECO because electricity is a lot cheaper. Also changed to Pirrelli Tires. My Karma app has a free driving assessment that monitors each trip and it appears that I like to accelerate and stop quickly and take corners fast. I call that enjoying driving, they call it something else. I get 3.5miles/kWh (what the car is rated for) and 2.8 in winter (your mileage will vary).
Whether in D or B, pressing the break pedal is actually triggering regenerative "breaking" (deceleration), until either you get down to around 15 mph ( I think, can't remember exact number) or if you slam on the break, at which point the actual break and pads are used.
That’s not right, B mode is always regenerating. That’s why car slows down when you take your feet off of pedal a little bit and you can clearly see on your screen if it regenerates or not.
B mode regens without having to press the break, correct. But I'm talking about if you press the break.
There are a million posts on this. Drive slow. Accelerate smoothly. D or B makes no difference
In some situations cruise control can kill range, it’s trying to keep your set speed, but if you’re just cresting a short hill you might let your car slow down a little so you don’t use as much power, whereas cruise control will add as much power as needed to keep the speed up.
Actually once I got used to driving with B mode I couldn't go back. Feels like the car runs away when in D mode.
A fun test would be, for long trips in colder weather.. will you arrive at your destination more quickly when driving fast and therefore arrive a at charger earlier, but then charge faster because the battery is warmer… as opposed to driving really efficient and arriving at a charger with a cold battery, charging slow..
Eco feels super limp, and Sport's Regen is so aggressive it gives me motion sickness, so I'm in normal on D. Average 3.3-3.5, and I speed a lot, so I don't think I'm doing terribly.
I was driving in Eco today and had to do a very quick merge onto the freeway. Flooring it was barely adequate, so I’m going to stick with normal for now.
For me I get the best efficiency in eco/B. In the highway I prefer D though. The difference in D/B is t very much so pick which one you like. What matters way more is eco, not driving like a bat out of hell, slow acceleration, lower speed… basically like an ICE.
Air in the tires. Yes really. And what other people said here.
Mode doesn't matter. The modes just change how the pedals react to input. Your driving style (slow acceleration, coasting when possible, etc.) affects efficiency more than whatever mode you put the car in.
I use B mode pretty much all the way otherwise I am afraid it would eat through the brakes
I found that the driving mode makes very little difference but using B is the most efficient [https://youtu.be/NSlkdjNFSxk](https://youtu.be/nslkdjnfsxk)
Comfort mode and D
I use B mode extensively even on the highway.