Almost 700km with Opel Ampera (Chevrolet Volt, Vauxhall Ampera) on the road trip. In this video I will show you the range of Electric Car Opel Ampera, fuel consumption and tips and tricks how to maximise the range and minimise the fuel consumption.
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Reducing your speed to about 90km/h will greatly help you, electric motor to be more effective. But in this test, to make real life test we won’t drive as an 80 years old grandpa and will go faster but within speed limits.
The 2nd tip is to use as much recuperation and as little breaks as possible. When you drive on “L” mode and take your foot of the gas pedal the car starts to break and recover energy. It is just about predicting when you will have to slow down and act in advance.
There is one more trick that can highly reduce your gas consumption and most people are not aware of it. When you are going for road trip don’t use all of the battery straight away. Power generator which is a petrol engine works the most effective with constant RPMs, when it doesn’t have to start and stop all the time. So, when you are on the highway save your battery and start the generator and when you are driving in the cities where you will have some traffic lights swap back to full EV mode.
Doing 120km we used 2.8 kWh and 6.4 l of petrol. It gives us an average consumption of 5.3l /100km but not counting EV range it would be almost 6l/100km. It’s quite good, considering I was driving 110km/h on cruise control for most of the time.
After another 48km on local roads we finally got back to the highway. 167km in total and 9l of fuel used. Consumption stays the same, an avg 5.3l and on gas only 6l per 100km.
So far 10km in the city, 92km on highway and 66km on local roads.
After another 30kms on highway we get back to local roads. This is the time when we will have to climb some hills but at the same time will reduce a bit the speed.
So, we finally reached the destination which was Jelenia Góra. 253km in total, 206 on petrol and 47 on the battery. An average consumption 4.6l and gas only consumption 5.6l.
Fortunately, just 800m from the hotel, there was a free city charger, where I connected the following morning. After that I had some business meetings, worked until 3pm and after that we drove to see Chojnik Castle. It took about 40 minutes to climb to the castle, but it was totally worth it. The castle has burnt in 17th century but the remains are impressive and the view from castle’s tower was breathtaking.
This we did over 70km and plugged to charge once again. Jelenia Góra is a perfect place for EV lovers. Although the city is quite small with population below 80k there are many free chargers. Especially appreciated are ones located just by the main square where you can not only charge your car but also park in the city center for free and very convenient.
After walking around beautiful old town of Jelenia Góra we drove to Karpacz to have some walk and see the waterfalls. Unfortunately, the weather was not too good, and we returned to the hotel early and charged the car once again. We did this day another 76km.
The following day we were supposed to go back to Poznań in the evening, so we decided to have some rest and walking on the country side. We went to small village Karpniki to eat lunch in the bar we were few years ago, do some hiking afterwards and go back home.
The place was so calm, food was delicious, and people were so nice that we decided to stay one more night in there as they are offering rooms as well. It is also pet friendly, so our little lion was welcomed as well.
There is plenty of place in the garden, very stylish bar with amazing food and clean but modest rooms. If you want to have some peaceful time I highly recommend this place.
Ok so let’s look at the summary:
1. Total distance: 681km
2. Distance on the battery: 253
3. Energy used: 38.3kWh
4. Avg energy consumption: 15.1kWh / 100km
5. Distance on the petrol: 428km
6. Fuel used: 24.5l
7. Avg consumption: 5.7l /100km
8. Total avg consumption: 3.6l / 100km