Month of November 2021 (Nat'l Avg $3.402)

Wasn’t that the European hatchback version of the US Elantra?

 

Today , 26 deg F in Northbrook , 25 in Elk Grove.
But no snow or even frost !
17.2 miles , fcd = 59.7 x .943 = 56.3 MPG.
When I start to need heat or defrost , the FE for this commute will drop.

For the record , I DO use heat or A/C sometimes. But only when on the highway.

I saw the tail end of the lunar eclipse this morning at around 5:30 Eastern.
I wish I had gotten up earlier.

 

Yes, looks like the driver who had the Tesla before you, poured the power to it, & didn’t care about any battery degradation. The Tesla now has a great owner, who is & will carefully baby the battery.

Another thing to consider will be keeping the battery cells balanced. There are several monitoring electronics that give the Voltage of each individual cell. Is one called Torque Pro? Can’t remember the other names, either. I don’t know how you would bring individual cells back in line, once they read less than the other normal cells. News Coulomb, James & Kate, & Bjorn Nyland have used the monitoring electronics.

 

On top of the Skagit River (& general flooding into the Salish Sea) over-topping of dikes, a number of major mountain downslope slumps (even preceding the flooding), have been uncovering extensive amounts of natural occurring asbestos. That asbestos is now considered to be in sufficient quantities in valley floodings, that specific asbestos precautions need to be taken during all valley clean-ups, including proper masking & handling of raw materials. Half a century ago(?), I remember that our Everett water sources started being filtered for natural-occurring asbestos in our water sources. Altho during past major floodings & clean-ups in our valleys, I never heard of specific cares & measures were needed against natural-occurring asbestos. I might think that landforms used for farms, ranches, animals & crops would also be affected in the long term.
Anyhow, I never considered flood materials as anything but toxic.

 

The closest Hyundai we have would be the Accent hatch , now sold here only as a sedan.
My son-in-law in England has a small Hyundai hatch with a 1.0 liter turbo , I think.
I need to ask him which model he has.

 

The US had a hatchback Elantra, that was slightly shorter than the regular & popular Elantra sedan. The hatch may have been a carry-over from some European Hyundai model. Wasn’t there an i20 Hyundai in Europe?

 

Daughter told me that it is a 2019 Kia Rio hatch , similar to the i30.
She also said it is a 1.2 liter and that it is a "GT-Line S ".

 

See….Europe gets all the good names.

 

Today ,36 deg F in Naperville and Elk Grove.
35.0 miles , fcd = 62.6 x .943 = 59.0 MPG.
ODO = 126,012

 

Went for a drive up to the Skagit & Whatcom counties to see the flood damage. Altho I got as far north as Bellingham, I didn’t see the farther north Ferndale, Sumas, Emerson, Concrete areas, that flooded from the South, MIddle & North Forks of the Nooksack River, draining much warm rain & Mt. Baker & other mountains’ snow melt. At one point I was on the low farmland areas, inundated by the flood waters of the Skagit River. From Edison to Bayview, the roads I traveled had flooded fields extending for many miles on each side of the road, less than 2 feet below the road level. It was like being on a boat in the Salish Sea(Puget Sound), itself, without the wave rocking. It was incredible. Just a dip of 3 feet at any point in the many miles long road, would have made the road impassable. But, the road was drivable all the way through the region! At times, vehicles were parked on the road, that you carefully drove around. BUT, they couldn’t pull off the road any further, or they would have plunked into the flood waters!
While in Bellingham, I saw & bought December’s Consumer Reports magazine on Vehicles. Had Tesla & Chevy Bolt repair statistics! I recommend people at this website should buy a copy.

 

Today , 24 deg F in Northbrook and Elk Grove.
17.2 miles , fcd = 61.7 x .943 = 58.2 MPG.

 

Hey, Gord…..I’ll never get THAT with a Chevy Bolt! Besides……..its 7.52 Mi/kWh, good to the 3rd decimal place. Besides again……at 7.5Mi/kWh, it don’t matter if you have to pay for the electricity or NOT.

 

Today , 21 deg F in Naperville , 21 in Elk Grove.
35.0 miles , fcd = 61.1 x .943 = 57.6 MPG.

 

Bet a lot of leadfoot EV drivers, who don’t care about battery longevity, wouldn’t get half your Mi/kWh, even if it was on the downhill leg.

 

Today , 36 deg F in Naperville , 37 in Elk Grove.
35.0 miles , fcd = 64.2 x .943 = 60.5 MPG.
Going to Northbrook after work , going back home Friday morning.