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I'm interested as heck to know more about this instrumentation panel showing "technique" as an indicator for the car's energy consumption. Ostensibly using gam

• dangrossman 11y ago
  Pretty much all hybrids and EVs do the gamification thing. Honda's got "eco score", Ford has "efficiency leaves", Nissan has "trees", etc. The more economically you drive, the more .. things .. you collect on the dashboard.
  • iamdave 11y ago
    Shows how behind I am. Last time I drove one of these eco-cars was a 2008 company car Prius.
  • ZeroGravitas 11y ago
    My standard ICE Honda does this too. A green arrow to tell me to switch up/down a gear and a row if up to 5 green dots to tell me when I'm driving efficiently (e.g. accelerating gently or coasting to a stop, not harsh acceleration followed by hard braking).
• vvanders 11y ago
  There's really not that much "technique" around driving an EV efficiently. Use regen braking and keep your speed down since most power goes to V^2 @ > 45mph.
  • mikestew 11y ago
    Regen braking is lossy, you've squandered energy if you use it. Ideally, your power meter (in whatever form it takes on your particular model) should be smack in the "not using nor generating power" spot. Ideally, you watch traffic ahead and plan so that you just coast up to the light or stopped traffic and let rolling resistance slow you down. Congratulations, you're now a "hyper miler" who annoys everyone around you. That's all theoretical. In my Leaf, I can't be bothered, I just drive it. I do try to keep it under 65mph, 'cuz boy howdy does the range drop if you're hot footin'it.