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Driving

The Driving section covers what happens between charges: individual trips, efficiency vs temperature, and regen recovery.

It has two pages under the sidebar's DRIVING group:

  • Trip Sessions at /driving/sessions — full trip list and detail drawer
  • Analytics at /driving/performance — efficiency correlations and regen trends

Renamed from Trips

In earlier releases this lived at /trips. v0.3 moved it under /driving/* so it sits alongside /charging/*. The trip data and detail views stayed the same; only the URL and sidebar grouping changed.

Trip Sessions (/driving/sessions)

See it live

Explore this page in the interactive demo.

A paginated table of trips with nine columns: number, date, distance, duration, temperature, energy used, efficiency, driving score, and regeneration.

Where efficiency comes from

Efficiency is calculated by LightningROD as distance / energy from the trip data. The vehicle's dash may show a lower number for the same trip because its own figure includes climate and accessory energy, while the API's energy_consumed covers propulsion only. No independent vehicle-reported efficiency is available through Home Assistant today.

Click any row to open a slide-out detail drawer with:

  • Overview -- start/end location, distance, duration, energy, temperature
  • Driving scores — smooth/efficient/safe score breakdown
  • Environment chart — temperature and altitude over the trip
  • Drive graphs — SOC, speed, and range on a shared time axis (interpolated segments shown as dotted lines at 40% opacity)
  • Expand — a full-screen modal with Battery, Environment, and Driving chart sections
  • Delete Trip — removes the trip after a confirmation prompt

Summary cards above the table - Total Trips, Avg Efficiency, Total Distance, Total Energy - respect the date range filter.

If Hide short trips is enabled in Settings → General, short key-on trips are left out of the list and summary cards, and a muted note above the table shows how many were hidden.

Exporting Trips

Click Export CSV above the table to download the trips matching the current filters (date range and sort order). Hidden short trips stay out of the export too.

One row per trip, with start/end times, start and end location, distance, duration, energy, efficiency, odometer readings, ambient/cabin/outside temperatures, driving scores, regenerated range, and the source system. Distances, efficiency, and temperatures export in your configured display units; times in your configured timezone; energy in kWh.

Driving Performance (/driving/performance)

A driving-side analytics page introduced in v0.3.

Summary Row

  • Range Recovered (Regen) -- total regen across trips in range
  • Plus per-page summary tiles for total distance, average efficiency, and more

Driving Efficiency Trend

A time-series chart of mi/kWh per trip (or km/kWh in metric). It mirrors the Charging Efficiency trend on /charging/performance.

Efficiency vs Temperature

A scatter plot of individual trip efficiency against ambient temperature, with a fitted trendline. Useful for spotting cold-weather efficiency loss.

  • X-axis: ambient temperature (°F or °C per unit preference)
  • Y-axis: calculated mi/kWh or km/kWh
  • Trendline: least-squares linear fit, shown only when enough trips have ambient temperature data

Regen Recovery

A dual-axis bar and line chart showing regen per trip:

  • Bars: regen kWh per trip
  • Line: regen percentage per trip
  • Most recent trips first, scoped to the current date range

Hover any bar for trip date, regen kWh, regen %, and distance.

Date Range Filter

Both pages use the same filter bar as the other analytics pages: ?range= presets (7d / 30d / 90d / YTD / 1y / All) or a custom From/To date pair.