davewill
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Thanks for the help. I'll fix that sentence. As far as the numbers, I did make them conservative, although driving in hilly San Diego much over 65 will come pretty close to that. I figure the masses will probably drive that way, and using more optimistic numbers (and carrying that optimism into the base range) makes day charging seem less needed. I also didn't care to use non-round figures like 3.5 miles per hour of L1 when the number is an estimate anyway.planet4ever said:...One grammatical comment:
That needs a "with" in the central clause, either "with which" or "familiar with".All of the examples below are based on the Nissan LEAF, which I am most familiar, but the numbers presented below are typical for most electric vehicles.
This may be intentional, however I consider your numbers very conservative. 3 miles and 10 miles per charging hour may be close to right if you are topping off to 100% and driving fast, but in practice most people will do better than that. You may not be able to top off if your battery is almost completely empty, and if it isn't you probably won't need to need to top off completely to make it home.
You have one factual problem, but I'm not sure what you can do about it. It is not true, as you imply, that J1772 means L2. The L1 charging also uses the J1772 connector.
Ray
Yah, I was aware of the J1772 = L2 implication. Looked at from their point of view, they would either be putting in J1772 EVSEs which would be L2 or they would be putting in standard outlets which would be L1. I could spend space explaining the nuance, but at this stage it just doesn't really matter. It also matches the way the public EVSEs end up using the terminology. I finally decided to leave it alone.