Highest Efficiency Number You’ve Seen?

Had my first panic on a 200 mile trip home last night. Thought I'd make it easily as I usually get over 20 miles per 10% battery but as I got to 30% I realised that my mpkm had been steadily dropping and was down to 3.1 and I was getting about 15 miles per 10% and have 40 miles to go. Very very stressfull. Pulled into Leicester East services on M1 and assumed I would be able to charge, couldn't see any, pulled out Zapmap, NOTHING! I trhought that all services had charging these days. Luckily there was a Maccys with 4 fasts Instavolts a few miles off the motorway so I managed to get there and luckily they worked. I'm guessing a dramatic drop in temperature caused it (I did not have the heater or wipers on etc). I'm never going to get in that situation again, I'll always get more than enough charge when I can (I could have stopped at Trentham Tesla but chose not to).
We have probably all had a similar experience at some point in our EV ownership.
 
See below from the LeicestershireLive Website (January 2024):

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I had seen previously that the chargers at Leicester were awaiting connection to the grid but a poster on the speakev forum in Dec 2022 said it was because Welcome had them switched off as there was not enough power. Same thing really. However when I looked on WattsUp the fosse shopping park nearby had Sainsbury fast chargers but they did not show on ZapMap. There were a number of differences also with electoverse. So it pays to have a number of maps.
 

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I had a trip once, filled up at the start, then after the first 267 km:
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Estimated range remaining:
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It wasn't too far out, still had half a tank remaining after 630 km.
Similar to my Auris that did 24 km/ltr on a 1200 km trip to Austria. Tank was rather small though. So I still needed a stop just before Villach.
On my daily trips to work (total of 170 km) I managed even better numbers. But those coincided with stop and go traffic causing the car to go electric very often.
 

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