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After a month of ownership let’s see what the real life mileage is at a charge of 80%
At a combination of hiway and in town driving in Arizona we are getting 230 miles on a 80% percent drive. This is at temperatures of 80 and above and in “d” mode, we really do not se much difference between d and b mode. We drove from Arizona to Vegas and at 70mph with a head wind we got 2.7kWh per mile, this gave is 207 miles to empty, again the temperature was in the upper 80s to 90. The return trip we achieved 3.3kwh per mile which gave us 254 miles at the same outside temperature.
so I would guess at 80mph you would achieve around 170 miles of range. As anyone driven long distance at 80mph?
 

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I’ve only had mine for a little over a week now, but I have driven over 530 miles in it so far. I limit the charging to 80%, and it always says over 250 miles available while only at 80%. So far it has not adjusted from that yet. I do about a 50/50 split highway and city driving each day, for about 80 miles each work day (work + kids activities). I pull into the garage with about 50-60% left each day.
I also fully expect it will eventually start moving the available miles downward over time, but so far it has not.
 

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After a month of ownership let’s see what the real life mileage is at a charge of 80%
At a combination of hiway and in town driving in Arizona we are getting 230 miles on a 80% percent drive. This is at temperatures of 80 and above and in “d” mode, we really do not se much difference between d and b mode. We drove from Arizona to Vegas and at 70mph with a head wind we got 2.7kWh per mile, this gave is 207 miles to empty, again the temperature was in the upper 80s to 90. The return trip we achieved 3.3kwh per mile which gave us 254 miles at the same outside temperature.
so I would guess at 80mph you would achieve around 170 miles of range. As anyone driven long distance at 80mph?
We bought our ID.4 the next state over and drove it back basically doing 75 the whole way. It said ~230 miles for that charge. I'd bet that if you went 80 you'd be closer to 200 than 170.
 

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I'm going to answer using miles/kWh, since the Guess-o-Meter is less than reliable. This is a US version, so I've got 77kWh usable. You can do the math.

It's flat here, and the temps have been almost exclusively lows in the 60s-70s and highs in the 80s to upper 80s since I bought the car. My driving is about 70% stop-and-go in a suburb with 35-45MPH speed limits, the rest is on the freeway at 65-70MPH. I tend to follow trucks on the freeway to break the wind up a bit and help range; always have. I'd describe my driving style as conservative, although my former wife and one son would use some, uh, more descriptive language. I do find myself enjoying the acceleration more than I thought I would.

So:
Life of the car: 3.6-3.7 miles/kWh; it varies depending on how I'm doing today
Freeway only (dry): 3.3 miles/kWh or so in clean air, I can get this up to 3.6 or more if I stay at 65 tucked in behind a semi or two
Freeway only (wet): 2.8 miles/kWh or so, I've got very limited experience with this though and that was in traffic.
Suburb driving only: 3.7-3.8 miles/kWh.

The above is all with the tires inflated to placard settings of 42PSI all around. In an effort to improve the ride, I just reduced to 38PSI all around. You can find another thread where this is duscussed The ride is much, much improved but it appears after only 20 miles or so that this change is costing me about 0.3 miles/kWh. More testing is on the way.
 

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I can second the guess-o-meter not being very accurate. My screen indicates a long-term rate of 3.3 miles/kWh, which should translate to 203.28 miles available at 80% SOC (61.6 kWh of the 77 usable kWh), but this morning when I got in the car (at 80% SOC) it indicated 261 available miles.
Also, when I get home each day with about an average of 54% SOC, it indicates around 175 available miles, which is also not accurate to the 3.3 miles/kWh. That translates to 4.2 miles/kWh, which would be incredible to get, but highly unlikely.
If I use the 3.3 miles/kWh as indicated, I should have 254.1 available miles at 100% SOC with my current driving habits.
 
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