How well do electric cars do in bumper to bumper traffic like we see in the evacuations in Florida?
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It doesn’t solve the problem that cars take up enormous amounts of space for the amount of people they move and any bottleneck in road design will cause traffic to pile up.
They do very well in traffic. Electric vehicles don’t need to idle the same way gas ones do, so they aren’t using energy when sitting still. They can also operate the AC independently from engine speed, meaning your AC will still be cold even when not moving. That does use some power, but not as much as idling the whole engine.
I’m not sure it’s much do do with being electic, but when I turn on Adaptive Cruise Control in my Lightning, I sit back and relax as it just follows the car in front of me.
If you mean efficiency, regen braking does a lot of heavy lifting. You’re mainly just using energy for air conditioning.
Evs shine in bumper to bumper. They actually have better mileage with city driving as opposed to highway driving with increased air resistance.
great. we have a PHEV due to our needs. but in city we almost always drive in EV mode, the stop and go is brutal on the gas milage, but the EV does great with it, and regenerative breaking to recoup some of the energy is great.
Great, because when they’re stopped, all that’s drawing power is the electronics and the climate conditioning.
Great 👍 Best use of ACC, IMO. I just relax and listen to a nice podcast while the car does the rest.
Drove my hybrid from North Central FL to N Myrtle Beach, multiple accidents, lots of bumper to bumper slow traffic.
Averaged 50mpg and did the run without filling up.
I recently got stuck in a traffic jam in warm (for London) weather on the M25 motorway. At a standstill for 3-4 hours.
My EV was at 31%. Keeping an eye on consumption (EVs tend to have a screen telling you of your current consumption) I worked out I could’ve stayed there for around 20 hours at least.
EVs are excellent vehicles to be in in a jam.
Better than any other car. They use hardly any energy. Hardly any energy used when stopped, and better range at slower speeds. They’re the perfect car for it.
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