So, it’s been three\u00a0years since I’ve started tracking our garage’s EV vs ICE use.<\/p>\n
As I previously wrote (three\u00a0years ago on my Minimizing Gas Use<\/a> article; on my update two years ago;<\/a>\u00a0and the one from last year<\/a>)\u00a0we\u00a0drive a hybrid garage.<\/p>\n For those that need a refresher, a hybrid garage is one where some of our\u00a0cars are EVs and the others are internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. As a family that is a part of the rEVolution, why do we still have ICE cars, it’s because we’re not as good as those that have gone to an all electric lifestyle. Hats off to them, but there are just times that I like to use vehicles that happen to use gasoline.<\/p>\n This winter” was supposed to be better than any of the previous “winters”, but we did not brave the mountains with our fifteen\u00a0year old BMW X5. The X5 lets us go to the mountains around LA when there are restrictions to drive when the snow is fresh. \u00a0Additionally, when we need to buy large items to move, we’ll use this same workhorse to help us move them. \u00a0Granted the Model S does have a LOT of space, but we prefer to beat up the X5 with hauling stuff rather than put the Model S to work.<\/p>\n That being said, I understand the costs of our addiction to oil and gas and we continue to try to minimize our gasoline use.<\/p>\n In preparing for the last article on Celebrating Four Mostly Electric Years<\/a>, I noticed that I had transposed some statistics and noticed that I had overstated the EV miles by 36,000 miles, so I wanted to make sure to correct that.<\/p>\n Three\u00a0years ago, I started tracking the number of miles my household used ICE vs. EV to see what percentage of our private car travels are electric and what part are powered by internal combustion engines. \u00a0Our methodology was to\u00a0count the miles driven in rental cars to this spreadsheet and the miles that we’ve lent our ICE vehicles (and EVs) to our friends and family when they visit Southern California. \u00a0 This is why I created some tracking spreadsheets and tracked mileage for a year. \u00a0 The results<\/a>\u00a0year over\u00a0year are still impressive even with the mileage transposition error in year 2.<\/p>\n In the first year of the study, we drove EV a total of 81.20% of the time and ICE 18.80% of the time.<\/p>\n In the second year of the study, we drove EV a total of 92.64% (vs. what I thought was 94.78%) of the time and ICE 7.36% (vs. what I thought was 5.22%) of the time.<\/p>\n As a whole, the household (as defined earlier, my wife and I and when we lend the cars to family and friends) drove about 46,000 total miles (both EV and ICE in the previous period) in the first year, about 40,000 miles in the second year, and we drove a total of approximately 41,000 total miles in this third\u00a0year. That’s approximately the same number of total miles between years one and year two. \u00a0Even though a good number of those miles were the 8,245 miles of coast-to-coast driving from our Here, There, and EVerywhere trip in May 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n Because of the error in Year Two’s calculation, I thought that we would be close to 150,000 EV miles this year, but still at 126,000 All EV miles since we started driving EVs. \u00a0For the study, we’re closer to 112,000 EV miles and 14,000 ICE miles for a study average of 88.7% EV vs 11.3% ICE three year average. \u00a0Definitely an upward momentum.<\/p>\n Looking at the monthly figures, for the third year shows a big blip in the ICE use for month 34 and that is mostly December 2015 and my sister and her husband was visiting us and most of those miles on the X5 was because we had lent them our ICE car for that month. \u00a0The approximately 1400 miles of ICE that was driven that month is more than half the total ICE miles for the year. \u00a0Until we have an EV to lend out to family, we’ll have to take those spikes.<\/p>\n Here’s to hoping that this next year’s study will have a greater EV momentum. \u00a0And we continue to\u00a0look\u00a0forward to seeing what else we can achieve with our hybrid garage next year. \u00a0Perhaps another coast-to-coast EV journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, it’s been three\u00a0years since I’ve started tracking our garage’s EV vs ICE use. As I previously wrote (three\u00a0years ago on my Minimizing Gas Use article; on my update two years ago;\u00a0and the one from last year)\u00a0we\u00a0drive a hybrid garage. 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