After reading through my owner's manual again this past Sunday, I noticed a couple of recommendations for maintaining battery health. These are periodically draining the battery to 0% as well as occasionally charging to 100% so the cells will balance.
In my attempt to run my battery down to 0% I took my all freeway route yesterday and tried to ride as fast as I could get away with when I wasn't splitting lanes. In open traffic I was averaging 80mph+ and noticed that my consumption remained the same as when I average 70mph on the same route. That is about 70% battery usage to go 38 miles. In fact, for the ride home, I only used up 65% of the battery's charge and "had" to go for another 15 miles or so to get the battery to drain to 0%.
My unscientific measurement seems to indicate that I'm getting the same freeway range whether I go 65mph or 80mph but the amount of time spent splitting lanes (as well as summer temps) may have impacted my range yesterday.
So my question from the subject...is it possible for EV range to improve over time?
On another note, after intentionally running it hard yesterday, I found that 30 minutes in 100+ degree temps is what it takes for the battery temp to go yellow. Also, at 1% my bike no longer showed a range estimate, instead it showed dashes. At 0% the bike went into Limp Home Mode and I was still able to go the 2 miles or so I needed to make it home. It also didn't restrict me to 25mph, I was able to cruise around 35mph-40mph. Power delivery was drastically cut though so no splitting to the front at a stoplight when you're in Limp Home Mode.