Hypermiling is the practice of driving vehicles as efficiently as possible in order to achieve the longest distance possible on one charge/fuel tank.
It’s not a useful way to determine the range of a vehicle for normal driving, but it’s an interesting way to see how the way someone drives can impact fuel efficiency.
Tesla owners have now established a new hypermiling record in a Model 3 by traveling 606 miles on a single charge.
This weekend, Tesla owners Erik Strait and Sean Mitchel set out to achieve the record on a public road circuit.
Their goal was 600 miles (965 km) and they narrowly beat it for what could very well be the Guinness World Record for the longest distance driven in a production electric car on a single charge.
The attempt basically consists of driving at extremely low-speed in order to get the most efficient driving speed for the vehicle while also not using power consuming onboard features like climate control.
In the case of the Model 3, Strait and Mitchel found that maintaining the speed under 25 mph (40 km/h) was ideal.
32 hours later, they had the record.
They streamed the entire hypermiling run on Youtube, which you can watch below, but a fair warning: hypermiling might very well be the most boring motorsport to watch by a long shot:
Hypermiling is the practice of driving vehicles as efficiently as possible in order to achieve the longest distance possible on one charge/fuel tank.
It’s not a useful way to determine the range of a vehicle for normal driving, but it’s an interesting way to see how the way someone drives can impact fuel efficiency.
Tesla owners have now established a new hypermiling record in a Model 3 by traveling 606 miles on a single charge.
This weekend, Tesla owners Erik Strait and Sean Mitchel set out to achieve the record on a public road circuit.
Their goal was 600 miles (965 km) and they narrowly beat it for what could very well be the Guinness World Record for the longest distance driven in a production electric car on a single charge.
The attempt basically consists of driving at extremely low-speed in order to get the most efficient driving speed for the vehicle while also not using power consuming onboard features like climate control.
In the case of the Model 3, Strait and Mitchel found that maintaining the speed under 25 mph (40 km/h) was ideal.
32 hours later, they had the record.
They streamed the entire hypermiling run on Youtube, which you can watch below, but a fair warning: hypermiling might very well be the most boring motorsport to watch by a long shot:
