EVs use a lot more electricity than normal when going up a mountain road, but brake regeneration helps recover a lot of energy on the descent.
Electric vehicles don’t lose power like combustion cars do when driven at high altitudes, but driving up a mountain pass will make their range disappear much quicker than normal. An EV consumes significantly more energy when climbing a gradient than on level ground, but if you follow the climb with a long descent with lots of brake regeneration, you should recover many of the lost miles. That’s exactly what TFLEV’s Loveland Trials EV test can reveal.
The reviewers in the TFLEV video tackled the mountain pass in summer when sudden temperature changes are not as likely, and by the time they reached the highest point on the road , they covered 74.1 miles and the range prediction said 138 miles. So the car lost 118 miles of predicted range in 74.1 miles, specifically because of the climb, with an average efficiency of 2.2 miles per kWh, which is way higher than what the car gets on mostly level roads.
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