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If you ever feel like your EV battery is depleting faster when the weather changes, you might be right! The weather can have a big impact on your vehicle’s efficiency and range.

Your Efficiency vs. Temperature report can help you gain insights into how your efficiency score changes with the temperature.

Learn how to track your driving efficiency in comparison to average temperature.

Finding your report

To access your Efficiency vs. Temperature Performance report:

Adjusting time period

You can adjust the time period shown to better analyze your trends over time.

Use the bar below the report charts to scrub through increments within your selected time period. This can help you understand the data benchmarks for both efficiency and temperature within the time period.

Interpreting the relationship between efficiency & temperature

While you might think of your efficiency as dropping most significantly when the weather is very cold (below approximately 21ºF or -6ºC), the same can be true when the weather is very hot.

The optimal temperature for electric vehicles is highly debated, but by our estimates you can think of it as being on par with what humans consider to be a beautiful sunny day (around 70ºF or 21ºC).

However, it’s important to consider that there are many factors that go into your efficiency score. (Check out our piece on how to Improve Your Driving Efficiency vs. Others for tips on boosting your score.)

Ultimately, you should pay attention to your vehicle’s individual data to understand how the weather affects your efficiency.

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