Battery drain climbing hills?

I will watch ours as we will be driving close to Vegas next week. I will watch it going up Deadmans Pass in Or. IIRC. it is about a 8 degree pull about 10 miles long.

 

As you have since found, this appears to be more of a problem with Gen2 than Gen3. The 20 additional HP helped a lot. Though even on Gen2, not all Colorado mountain drivers had this problem, so driving style may have played a factor.

 

My v model 3 nav has a color coded display where red is really bad traffic, orange no so bad, etc. I think it gets its data from my cell phone. I've even used the nav on local display and the phone on wide area simultaneously to allow my navigator to figure out the best strategy where a better route would be available.

 

jonb505: Don't worry about battery drain on steep hills. Your V will automatically charge or boost the ICE as need arrises........just drive and enjoy!

 

More likely 8%. An 8° grade would be 14 % and that's too steep for an interstate highway.

 

You are correct an 8% grade, I didn't notice any drain on the battery infact ICE was on the whole time and the traction battery was down two bars. This was at 65 mph.

 

Dead Mans Pass is the name of the Rest Area at the top.
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/MCT/docs/EmigrantHill.pdf?ga=t
Crawford Hill, Cabbage Hill, and Emigrant Hill are other names.

6 miles of 6 percent, for a 2000 foot drop (or climb)

Blue Mountains - Backroads in Oregon

 

Thanks
Lol, I stand corrected, in the dark and when blizzardy it sure feels more that 6 % grade I was guessing and it felt more than 9.6 kilometers long. We went up it in early November also during a storm, we could only drive 50 km/hr about 30m/hr and it seemed to take forever to get ut to the top. The big rigs were only idleing going up and they all had to put chains on.
A dangerous pass.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to be such a nit-picker. My day job is Engineering Checker and I've heard my share of 45 degree driveway stories. For some reason we all have trouble perceiving angles of grades.

 

It is more than 6 miles long, but 'only' 6 miles is a 6% grade before and after that it tapers down. You start climbing in Pendleton and are still climbing past the rest area, just not 6%. Many is the time I could get north to have Thanksgiving with the family, then not be able to get south to get home. (I lived in Elko NV for 14 years)

 

I am glad you corrected me now we all nkow the real story behind Deadmans pass aka Emigrant hill. Thanks Jimbo for all the info.
We have gone home via hwy 95 through Lewiston and the I-84 is the lesser of two evils. I wish Hwy 95 was an Interstate from Eastport Idaho to Yuma Az....I could only hope.

 

As a Highway 95 native, I'm glad that the Lewiston and Whitebird switchback hills were replaced by nice roads, but am glad it isn't an Interstate.

 

Here is a pic of old 95, is this the Whitebird switchbach hills. We drove on it twice, once up and once down, and I agree the new part of 95 is much better.
We live just off the 95 but on the Canadian side.

 

Ah, that brings back memories of many rides on that hill. Including repeated car sickness in the hot dusty back seat of the '47 Chevy.

The timber on the horizon just behind also marks the far bounds of my youthful hunting grounds, hiking from the other side. While it was much too far away to bag and haul back a deer or elk, it was good for grouse hunting, general hiking and exploring, and a great spot to sit down for lunch and take in the view for a while.

Some day I need to go back for the annual bicycle ride up and down the Hill. Video:
Old White Bird Hill - Just for the Hill of it Challenge - 2012
White Bird Grade
Longer clip from motorcycle: Descent Old Whitebird Hill

 

Same hill, as seen from the opposite direction.

I didn't pedal the whole thing, just the upper portion of it.