How To Drive An Electric Vehicle Efficiently To Maximise Your Range
Watch VideoLast Updated: 31st October 2024
Accelerate gently
Our first tip is to embrace gentle acceleration. With electric vehicles being typically automatic, smooth driving is key. Avoid rapid acceleration and hard braking to conserve energy, optimise efficiency, and maximise your EVs range. It's all about the smooth ride to get the most out of your charge.
Limit Your Use Of Climate Control
Do you find yourself reaching for the climate control? If you don't need to don't; our next step is to reduce the number of times the climate control is used. Limiting the number of times you use your climate control reduces static energy consumption and maximises your range.
Regenerative Braking
Our third tip is something that you may not have heard of before, regenerative braking. Instead of using brake power, just take your foot off the accelerator and you'll feel the vehicle slow down. A motor converts this kinetic energy into electricity that is then stored back in into the battery.
Your Journey Planning Matters
Our final tip is to plan your route smartly. Choose highways and roads with established charging stations - to help with this you can use Waze or Zapmap. A well-planned route makes your journey more enjoyable and stress-free.
We hope our top tips to maximise your EVs range has been useful. Don’t forget the little things, keep your tires pumped up, and pay attention to the battery management and temperature.
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