My car range seems low

Hi. I've had the car for about a month now. I've been a little concerned about the range I'm getting and not sure if I've a fault with my battery.
Today I needed to top up after about 110 miles, this was on A roads AVG speed around 60. Motorway has been worse.
I had heaters off, except for a few mins here and there to clear mist on windscreen.
I drive in eco mode with reg breaking at 3.
I understand various things impact range but this seemed a conservative drive in ok conditions and still not close to advertised performance.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues?
Not sure if I should contact dealer.

Peter, how old is the car, has it got all the service updates and how do you charge it (rapid charger, home fast charge or 13amp socket)
 
Hi. I've had the car for about a month now. I've been a little concerned about the range I'm getting and not sure if I've a fault with my battery.
Today I needed to top up after about 110 miles, this was on A roads AVG speed around 60. Motorway has been worse.
I had heaters off, except for a few mins here and there to clear mist on windscreen.
I drive in eco mode with reg breaking at 3.
I understand various things impact range but this seemed a conservative drive in ok conditions and still not close to advertised performance.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues?
Not sure if I should contact dealer.
We do a regular 100mls journey each weekend, as it gets colder we are finding it getting to the point we feel happier with a top up charge just to be safe but always find we would have made it with out it cause when we put the granny charger on there is always more in the car than the gom tells you, also the battery warning comes on very early, we find we have about 50 mls or more when the warning light comes on.
 
The battery warning light seems to come on quite early. I found the GOM to be fairly accurate and am guided by that.
 
Mine came on yesterday for the first time at 1 bar and showing 30 mile range. I wondered what the warning would look like and now I know. Wasn't worried though as just a mile or so from home.
 
It can be very confusing. What I have always done to check miliage is to reset th trip meter when I charge and the calculate how much battery I have left at the next charge. The Gom will only tell you how many miles you MAY get if you drive the same way as you did on your last trip. I even did that when I drove an ICE car. I know sad isn't it.
 
Not that I have "running out of juice anxiety" or anything but I don't think I've gone below 50 miles left on the GOM yet, I'm always topping up at Tesco.
 
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