That's good to read. The best adventures usually happen to people who are mostly prepared for them.
Nubo said:Looks like your first leg is a short one, to a fast-charge station, followed by your longest leg at 75 miles. Be aware that fast-charge stations often do not fully charge the pack. Often the pack is left in a 80-90% state. Furthermore, fast-charging does most of its magic when the pack is at a low state of charge, and then tapers off in speed as the pack gets fuller. In short, there would be little speed advantage in using fast-charge after only a 33-mile drive and it may not fully charge the pack. You'd be better off using a Level2 station for your first charge of this trip, imho. Or, if both types are co-located, use fast-charge until it begins to slow down and then switch over to a Level2 station to fully top-off the pack.
chooze said:In a shorter time than I would have expected we heard the fans go off in the station and the charge stopped. The car was only at 94%.
CHAdeMO stations can be configured to stop at 80% or not, at least the Nissan-branded can be (https://web.archive.org/web/20150626012204/http://nissanqc.com/). I don't know the full set of settings available.chooze said:While planning I had researched to see if L3s would charge past 80% and what I found indicated that on a 2013 they would charge to 100%.
On '13+ Leafs, the car's on-board % SoC display does not stop at 94%. It will go all the way to 100%. (And yes, this differs from the type of % values reported by Leaf Spy.).dhanson865 said:chooze said:In a shorter time than I would have expected we heard the fans go off in the station and the charge stopped. The car was only at 94%.
I think you'll find that when you charge at home with the L2 on your 30A socket it'll stop around 94% for full as well.
The confusion is the OP is apparently referring to the LEAF Spy SOC indication.Firetruck41 said:... I charge to 100% pretty much every night on my level 1 charger. (I am talking about indicated percent on dash ”gauges”)
2011 and 2012 DCQC behaviour is different than 2013 forward.dhanson865 said:...
That may be true for some versions of Chademo equipment but when I charged my 2012 SL in Asheville, NC it didn't stop at 80% and it was still charging above L2 speeds even when it hit 90%.
It was a greenlots charger, I'm not sure who makes it or what model it was but it charged me plenty fast.
Firetruck41 said:I have charged to 100% several times on level 2 chargers in the past month I have owned the car, and 90% and 98% with chademo quick chargers, both times they were still charging and I voluntarily terminated the charge. I charge to 100% pretty much every night on my level 1 charger. (I am talking about indicated percent on dash ”gauges”)
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