That's right Smokie. Because I know I am going to just charge it back up at night there's not much point worrying about miles/kW and leaving the heater off etc.
The only time I really had range anxiety was when we had the Leaf and drove to Southampton for the evening. Left with 130m on the clock. Arrived with 70 left and 70 to get home. Charged it on the mains for a few hours and had 118m on the clock to go. Should have been plenty.
However.....
Just started up the M3 and noticed because the temperature was sub zero outside and the Leaf has no battery thermal management, we were using up range at about double the normal rate and so we wouldn't have enough to do the 70 miles home.
Off went the heater and speed adjusted to 50 for the A272, out with the spare blankets from the back of the car so we didn't freeze, only turning on the heat to demist the windscreen when needed. Eventually arrived home with 10 miles left of range.
Not a pleasant experience I must say. I kept thinking "is that what one would have dropped in excess of 40K for a car for?" .. and this is progress?
Nonetheless I am much happier with the Niro EV now because it is well away from the range pain threshold.
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