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2023 Battery Electric Vehicle (EV or BEV) Driving and Fuel Statistics

Writ­ten 4/29/23 — Updat­ed 2/21/2024

Purpose

Report­ing on Trip and Fuel Sta­tis­tics for dri­ving a bat­tery elec­tric vehi­cle (BEV). Specif­i­cal­ly the 2023 Ford Mus­tang Mach-E4

Location

North­ern VA

What

Data obtained from In-car Dash, Ford­Pass App, Charg­ing Sta­tions, and Home Charg­er

Duration

As long as I own the vehi­cle. Start Date: Jan­u­ary 21, 2023

Notes

This is pri­mar­i­ly City dri­ving with mod­er­ate traf­fic

ADJ: “Adjust­ed” — Adjust­ed for a par­tic­u­lar trip’s bat­tery capac­i­ty which is gov­erned by fac­tors such as tem­per­a­ture. Every EV has an ide­al bat­tery capac­i­ty. This can be exceed­ed or under­cut, which there­fore affects the rest of met­rics like MPGe and ener­gy effi­cien­cy.

Aver­age Trip Speed: Not aver­age speed dri­ven dur­ing trip, but speed when tak­ing into account miles dri­ven and time dura­tion of trip

MPGe: Based off the EPA con­ver­sion: 33.705kWh elec­tric­i­ty = 1 gal­lon gaso­line

Aver­age Tem­per­a­ture: As report­ed by Weath­er Under­ground His­tor­i­cal Data for Dulles Air­port

2023 Year Statistics

Trip
Grand TotalsAver­ages
Days Owned344Trip Dura­tion (h)0.5
Hours Spent Dri­ving (h)324.6Bat­tery Used (%)5%
Miles Dri­ven (mi)6916.2Ener­gy Used (kWh)3.1
Ener­gy Used (kWh)2097.7Bat­tery Effi­cien­cy (%)81%
Total Num­ber of Trips681Aver­age Trip Speed (mph)18.4
Fuel
Grand TotalsAver­ages
Days Owned344Cost per kWh ($/kWh)$0.21
Num­ber of Time Charged76Trip Bat­tery used per Charge (%)41%
Hours Spent Charg­ing (h)413.1Charge Rate (kW)5.6
Miles Dri­ven (mi)6952.7Charge Effi­cien­cy (mi/h)19.0
Bat­tery Charged (%)3337%Charge Effi­cien­cy (%/h)8%
Fuel Vol­ume (kWh)2293.8Trip Bat­tery Effi­cien­cy (%)91%
Miles Gained* (mi)7854Trip Fuel Used per Charge (kWh)28.6
Cost ($)$492.01ADJ Trip Fuel used per Charge (kWh)28.6
Trip Bat­tery used (%)3105%Per­cent Used per Mile (%)0.45%
Gas Vol­ume Equiv­a­lent (gal)64.54Tem­per­a­ture (F)58.8
*Miles Gained can exceed Miles Driven/Used due to Bat­tery Effi­cien­cy
MPGe

Based on Fuel Data

MPGe: 102.2 ADJ MPGe: 118.0

Based on Trip Data

MPGe: 111.1 ADJ MPGe: 121.3

EPA Rat­ing

MPGe: 93 com­bined (99 City/86 High­way)

Fruit Flavored Beef Jerky

writ­ten 07/29/2023, updat­ed 07/29/2023

What

Beef Jerky, Fruit Fla­vored, Oven Baked

Ingredients

*Mea­sure­ments are all to your taste

Main: Beef

Mari­nade: Soy Sauce, salt, sug­ar, fruit jam, fruit juice (your choice in fla­vors, I used straw­ber­ry and rasp­ber­ry jam, and mango/strawberry juice), lemon/citrus juice, red wine, Shaox­ing wine

Option­al: fresh-squished straw­ber­ries, pep­per, gar­lic, etc

Sup­plies: Plas­tic zip­per bag, racked bak­ing sheet or air fry­er bas­ket, lin­er to catch drip­pings, tooth­picks

Time

30 min­utes Prep + Overnight set + 45 min­utes Bake = 1 hour, 15 min­utes + overnight (for 350F Bake)

Steps

Prep

  • Pre­pare the beef: Slice to your desired thick­ness and size
  • If thick­er, then poke holes in it
  • Put beef in plas­tic zip­per bag
  • Pre­pare the mari­nade: com­bine soy sauce, red & Shaox­ing wines, salt, sug­ar, lemon/citrus juice, fruit jams, your option­al ingre­di­ents and fruit (to your desired taste), and then pour into zip­per bag
  • Real­ly com­bine them with the meat
  • Add the fruit juice
  • Close and place in refrig­er­a­tor overnight

Cooking

  • Take meat out of refrig­er­a­tor to room tem­per­a­ture
  • Lay the beef slices on the rack OR, using tooth­picks, sus­pend them between the rack slats
  • Make sure to have a drip catch­er under­neath

Route A: 300F for 45 min­utes

  • Pre­heat oven to 300 degrees F (150C)
  • Bake for 45ish min­utes (depend­ing on thick­ness) until desired consistency/hardness

Route B: Low­est Temp for 2–6 hours

  • Set oven to 300F (150C)
  • Low­er to 270F (133C)
  • Add beef
  • Cook for 10 min­utes (to make it safe to eat)
  • Low­er tem­per­a­ture to low­est pos­si­ble tem­per­a­ture of oven (tra­di­tion­al­ly, it’s 145F/63C), prop open oven door with wood­en spoon for ven­ti­la­tion
  • Cook to desired dry­ness

Route C: Use dehydrator/air fry­er

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Notes

  • Cut with the grain for MORE chewi­ness, cut against the grain for LESS chewi­ness
  • Thick­er slices will take more time, thin­ner slices with take less time
  • If you thread the tooth­picks into the ends of the beef strips and then hang those in between the rack slats, it will dry even­ly
  • Don’t mar­i­nate for too long or the meat con­sis­ten­cy will change