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Originally Posted by Martinjlm

Early EVs I'd say you're spot on. Newer ones are really not bad at all. Having driven numerous Teslas in mixed (some city, some highway, some "suburban thoroughfare") I can say from personal experience that most newer EVs do a better job of predicting range on the in-vehicle display than gas vehicles. If they say you have 54 miles left, you probably have 55. My wife has been driving Chevrolet Volts since mid-2011. The first one was rated 38 miles on a full charge. Depending on the temperature that day, when she got in the car it would read anywhere from mid-20s to mid-40s (lowest on really cold days). It was very accurate in that regard. Some variation due to driver behavior. Her current Volt (no pun intended) is rated at either 43 or 44 miles per full charge. On cold days it says 34 - 37. On warm days I've seen as high as 54. Whenever I drive her car I outperform the estimate. That's because I know how to use regen braking better than she does.

I had a Bolt EV for two weeks in November 2016. Not too cold, definitely not hot. Rated at 238 per full charge. Again, mixed driving like in the Teslas I've driven. I NEVER had the range estimate fall short of what it started at. The guess-o-meter was usually pretty much dead on or maybe a little conservative.

The Volt seems like the best compromise for a hybrid vehicle. Not sure why GM didn't promote them more. Sorry to see them go away. They were on my radar.