Goodbye snow tires...

... Welcome back round trip commute in EV only!
OK, so it's still cool enough here that I can't do the faster route with more highway, but I'll take the slower path until weather conditions permit all EV at higher speeds. The guess-o-meter said 30.7 today! First time I've seen that number since October.
Now, fingers crossed that April snows don't come this way.

 

I think they're Michelin, but it wasn't merely the tires that destroyed range. It was a deadly combination of snow tires, subfreezing temps, judicious use of seat & steering wheel heaters, and needing to use the defroster (or, at minimum, heat directed to the windshield) that took my EV miles from the low 30's to the low 20's. The topography of my commute is somewhat hilly, and any uphill climb in EV at subfreezing temps uses up lots of electric power that can't be made up on the downhill pieces of road.

That's what I'm afraid of

 

I usually wait until the end of April to be safe given this area of NY's tendency to return to wintry weather in mid-April, but I'm taking a 600-mile road trip this weekend and wanted to optimize mileage/minimize road noise. I'm headed southeast of here, so there shouldn't be any snowy surprises.