Hello everyone, this is John again. It's time for my year three battery condition test.
In the pictures of the gauge cluster, you'll see that i have a check engine light on.
That is because i have a faulty camshaft position sensor that has since been replaced.
The sensor threw an error a day before I started this test, so you'll see the error throughout the
entire video. I haven't had any problems with the electrical part of the car, it's just been
the gas part. Towards the middle of summer of last year, I noticed that the fully charged
range had dropped from 26 miles to 24 miles. It turns out that's because if you have any kind of
environmental control on, whether it's air conditioning or just the vent or even heat,
it will adjust the range assuming the worst case power draw.
Because I always run with air conditioning, when i started up in the morning it gave me a
24 mile range, but if i turn off the range it takes up to 26. So at the fully charged state you'll lose
about two miles, or about three or four kilometers, and then the lower it gets in charge the smaller
amount that it will take off of that amount. I have recently run a couple city tests I was busy doing
errands and turns out I ran out the battery in both situations. The first run was 25 to 35 miles
an hour, or 40 to 56 kilometers an hour, and that yielded 32 miles of range or 51.5 kilometers.
The second run was a bit further distances at higher speeds, it was around 45 miles or 72 kilometers per
hour, and that resulted in about 31.6 miles or 50.8 kilometers of range. Not too bad after three years
of almost exclusive battery use during the summer time. Right now I'll be running the highway range
test, as well as the fuel economy test for city and highway driving. The highway range test is a 13
mile loop out and back so both ways is 26 miles or 42 kilometers. The highway loop is 50 miles
or 80.5 kilometers out and the same distance back. When i do my city economy test that'll basically
be driving about a 50 mile city driving so no special loop for that.
We've just finished charging and the battery pack voltage is 369.56 volts and the BMS tells me I have 95 charged
and the ODB2 reader it says 94. Of course, the infotainment center says 100 because that's as much as the
battery can take. We will get ready now and go see how far i can make it on th e highway
We're off. I'm running this with air conditioning because, even though it's kind of cool outside right now, it
is very sunny and that heats up the cabin quite a bit. Once I get to 70 miles an hour, I'll engage the
cruise control just so that I don't have to worry about maintaining a constant speed.
We're almost to my turnaround spot now. I was caught behind a semi going about five miles an hour under the limit,
so I wasn't really able to get around them because iId have to accelerate past 70 miles
an hour and risk engaging the gasoline engine. For the next mile or so I'll be going 65
rather than 70 and then when i turn around we'll see what happens. I have quite a severe headwind.
It's from the northwest at about 17 miles an hour, or 27 kilometers an hour, and that's kind
of affecting my range too. Right now, it shows me as getting about 20 to 21 miles of electric range
and we'll see what happens on the way back, when i get a boost from the wind rather than
getting slowed down. We're getting close to running out of battery, so I'll see how far it goes before
the gas engine kicks in. My guess is that we won't have much further to go. It just kicked in at
22.3 miles, so I'll clear the trip computer and see how far it goes on gasoline.
Just filled up the tank and we had 42.7 miles per gallon or 5.51 liters per 100 kilometers. So, not too bad for a
windy day like today and now we'll try some city driving tests.
There's no way that the city test was 120 miles per gallon so even though the gas range is not exactly accurate,
I'm going to have to use the value that the Niro presented which is 60 miles per gallon or 3.92 liters per 100 kilometers