The gauge is generally accurate. I get about ~20-24 miles out of a charge, depending on speed. If there's anything approaching highway speed I'd expect to total about 15 miles of range. When the weather gets chilly the range goes down a bit.
Regenerative braking. That's that drag you feel when you let off the gas, it's using the electric motor to slow the car down instead of the brakes, putting charge back into the battery. When you use the "max regen" button (bottom left corner of the center stack buttons), it makes that regen even stronger so you coast less.
in pure battery mode you will get 30-35 miles on a charge. It’s sad but that’s about it. Just run in hybrid mode Keep battery charged and enjoy it
I avoid E-Save like the devil unless on longer drives (example would be when I drove back from the shore last weekend, just to top the battery up to 75%). What I mean is that I still want to fill my tank up (sitting at half) and I will drive home on E-Save Charge and whatever gas is used won't bother me none, and head to a charge station. Tonight I cannot really afford to sit there for almost 2 hours like last night.
We are also getting about 30 miles on a charge when we drive through the town to do errands and work. Once we get on the highway, it goes down to 25 miles of range. Still happy with that considering we are very close to everything we need.
