Watch a Chevy Blazer EV SS Crush a mountain climbing range test

When it comes to planning EV road trips, the height is a strange factor. On the one hand, your net change in height is zero when you walk 3,000 feet and then 3,000 feet again. You may not expect a range of reach, but anyone who has ever hiked a mountain up and down can tell you that it certainly requires more effort than flat surface migration.

EVS have to work harder to pull hills up to generate excess waste heat, and their regenerative brakes with energy -related are not 100% efficient, so that they too are faced with this problem. Therefore, it is so nice to see how a Chevy Blazer EV SS destroys the test in the latest test from TFLEV.

In it, Jen takes up to 12,000 feet from a height of about 5,000 feet, an ascent of 7,000 feet. This has the efficiency of efficiency: the blazer delivers only 1.8 miles per kWh, worse than they would get from a large electric truck on the flat floor. Despite its 303-mile EPA range, it uses 36% of its battery after only 73.3 miles climbing.

But here the more efficient design of an EV comes into play. In a gas car you would lose a similar amount of range when climbing. If you go up a hill, it consumes far more energy, regardless of the energy source itself. It would be lost forever in a gas car. They would consume far less fuel on the way down, but the engine would still consume fuel and could not recapture this energy.

An eV can. When Jen came back at the starting point, she still had 56% of the battery. After 147 miles, the Blazer – for 303 miles – covered 48% of its demanding range, but only 44% of its battery. In other words, despite an incredible ascent of 7,000 feet, the Blazer EV SS exceeds its reach. In the end, it also had more indictment than the GPS of the car said that it confirmed my personal experience that the Chevy system is pessimistic and that it was caution on the side during my youngest Mountain Road Trips.

This is a great presentation and a justification for what I said in my review: The Blazer -V -SS may not be the most exciting performance, but its focus on range and value will serve the customers well.

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