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So, following the success of my day trip to Nottingham, I decided that it was time for a much longer expedition – from North Yorks to Worthing – again
[See the full post at: North Yorkshire to Worthing – 340 miles in a day]timob, you’re famous! Well, anyway, your ZOE has gone international:
well spotted Trevor. Shame the caption and the location (Tibshelf in Derbyshire) don’t quite match though!
I’m sorry if this has been asked before but what speeds do you cruise at on the motorways?
My motorway cruising speed is a pretty constant 60mph – faster than lorries, but defiantly amongst them for much of the time.
Mind you, on many motorways it’s actually quite hard to go much faster for any period even if you want to. And now, I’ve realised that I actually prefer to drive at that sort of speed now – even in our other (diesel) car.Excellent stuff!
Do you use cruise control or not?
No I don’t use cruise control very much since I think on most roads I can do better to anticipate small changes in inclination. For example by keeping the current mpkwh at zero going downhill I can use the extra speed gained to save energy on the next climb, or on the flat. With cruise control on, I’d have regen on the decent (less efficient), followed by higher consumption than it needs to be on the next bit of road.
my trick is to slip stream coaches (usually national express) they drive at 62.5 mph (strange speed as if i set my cruise at 63 i get too close and if i set it at 62 i fall behind…) and doing this means i am using around 10 / 11 kwh (about the same energy if i was driving at 58 on my own without any slip stream)
Thanks Everyone!
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