Competition range contest of Mini Cooper SE who takes a challenge?

No pics, but with the return of warmer weather I am back to getting excellent range, covering the last 51 miles while using only 29% of the battery.

It would probably be even better if I hadn't gotten pissed off this morning at the bro dozer riding my bumper and flashing their lights because I was laying back a bit from the string of four cars following the dump truck ahead of me. My solution was to take the right turn into the right hand lane of the ramp at 35 while he (and everyone else) trundled around it into the left hand lane at 15. I then took advantage of the open space in front of me and hit the interstate going 80 a quarter mile ahead of everyone.

I wonder what folks think when you disappear in the blink of an eye like that?

 

We were in Ottawa Ontario all weekend. Left around 7pm Sunday night. Did a 100% charge curbside 202.3 km from Little Italy to our house in Montreal arrived at 13% SOC. Was going 105kph most of the way with bursts to 115 at times. Thats our best run ever on that route.

 

That is pretty much 5 mi/kWh efficiency for highway driving! What kind of magic ceramic coating do you have on your vehicle??

 

No idea but even going up on Saturday it was really good. But we took highway 17 to the EV meet. They had never seen a Mini Electric before

 

I will have double check, definitely gained efficiency after lowering the car. Sounds like a fun challenge!


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It's great you're keeping track of drives like this and that you're getting the new electric Fiat 500e so you can compare the two for us.

 

A story for MINI Cooper SE drivers testing the maximum range

Nearly 18 years ago, a group of hypermiling enthusiasts drove a gen-1 Honda Insight 2,254.4 miles on a single tankful of gasoline. By limiting their speed to an average of 18.5 mph, they achieved an astounding 164.315 mpg on a closed route (ie. they didn't start on a mountaintop and drive down to Death Valley).

These dedicated hypermilers chose the flattest closed route they could find—it was in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. The elevation along their closed route varied by about 100 feet. Here’s the flat-looking part of their route they named “Heartbreak Ridge,” because it was so disappointing to watch their gas mileage on the Insight’s Fuel Consumption Display (FCD) take a hit every time they “climbed” that hill.



Obviously, someone charging their MINI Electric at the top of a mountain will find a downhill route that blows away the range achievable by anyone following a route that ends where it began. So whomever wants to claim the record should be required to drive a relatively flat closed course.

Pilot Travel Center #1004 in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, is planning to install a charging station. A nearby MINI Electric owner with lots of time to kill should try out the route this hypermiling Honda Insight followed (the map is in the article linked above). The drive in a MINI Electric should take much less time than the 122 hours these Insight drivers spent setting their 164-mpg record.

 

Yesterday was my first "summer" run, where the weather was warm enough all day for efficient operation. I didn't set out to go that far, but this was a regular day for me. Not as impressive as @Rexsio but I spent much of the time on the freeway so I think it's pretty good. And way above the official range of 110 miles (I had 30% SoC left). MiniRange app computed total range would have been 152 miles (5.26 mi/kWh).