First tank 830 miles!

[KEMeyer]

Congrats on the awesome MPG. It's fun to see how the Mav brings joy to so many people in so many different ways!

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[paneubert]

Love this truck so far! It’s my back-and-forth to work truck. 23 miles round-trip from home. I’m a transit operator and work very early in the morning.....

Small world. I have a god friend from college who is from Mead.

 

[The Real Maverick]

Your 1st acceleration using the battery (or 2 of them if ICE/battery combined) would have knocked the battery down from 100% to 70% easily and quickly.
So no that theory is bogus for any tank MPG high value seen.

The working range is 30-70%.
The ICE turning on to charge the battery is 30-40%.
A prolonged decent regen braking distance can take it from 70-90% pretty quickly.
If going down a hill and charge is above 70% at some point the engine will be engaged without fuel to provide extra resistance to slow that charging.

The batteries are NOT shipped at 100%.

The HV battery has never ever been above 72% in my 2022. Even on really long really steep hills it stops charging at 72%.

The trucks aim for 30% to 70%.
On a cold start; 28% is allowed (by design, but lower numbers could be seen via self-discharge if the truck sat a long time). On those long downhills; 72% is temporarily allowed. In 27,000 miles I've had a ScanGauge attached and the record high so far has been 72.2%.

That "fullness" is good for ~3 miles of propulsion. So no amount of battery charge is going to have a very large effect on distance per tank.

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