madbrain
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This is how Xmas Eve went in my Leaf.
12/24 charged 100% at work . All 12 bars showing. This is a 2 months old car.
7:30pm Commute home Santa Clara to east SJ foothills : 12.8 miles . max freeway speed = 65 mph . Car is down to 9 bars when I get home.
I put the car to charge for about 1 hour on L1 when I got home.
9pm going to dinner : east SJ foothills to Mountain View : 19.1 miles. max freeway speed = 65 mph
My partner happened to mentioned on the way that he wanted to see a movie. I start to worry that we should have taken the Prius instead.
11pm go to movie : Mountain View to South SJ : 18.8 miles . max freeway speed = 55 mph . We were conscious to conserve battery
2am drive home from South SJ to east SJ foothills : 13.2 miles . freeway speed = 50mph, on cruise control
Total distance : 63.9 miles . Freeway miles : about 50 . We did have the heat the whole time, on lowest setting (1 bar).
We made it back home up the hill with no miles showing (---), no bars left, very low battery warning.
How close were we actually cutting it ?
I don't want to think how long the Nissan tow would take at 2am on Xmas eve, having experienced 2 hours at 11pm on regular business day 2 weeks ago when my Leaf got a flat.
When I first logged in to Carwings on my cell phone after plugging in the car, it showed a charge time of 25 hours (!) which is 4 hours more than the max 21 hours that Nissan quotes. Yes, I'm still charging on L1 at home.
About a minute later when I logged from my PC to capture this crazy charge time, it had already decreased to 19 hours. Logged back on the phone right after that, and it decreased even more to 18 hours.
I have never yet taken the car to turtle, but this is about my 3rd VLBW in 2 months. I have several 18 hour full charges on L1. I hardly think I am pushing the car with the speeds I'm driving. Tonight we drove it barely fast enough to make the movie after dinner (and missed the previews). The car was on cruise control almost the entire time on the freeway for all 4 trips from full charge.
The farthest I have gone from home with my Leaf so far was San Mateo which was 72 miles roundtrip. I drove 65mph on the way there, 55 on the way back with no heat, and ended up with 3 miles on the dashboard.
12/24 charged 100% at work . All 12 bars showing. This is a 2 months old car.
7:30pm Commute home Santa Clara to east SJ foothills : 12.8 miles . max freeway speed = 65 mph . Car is down to 9 bars when I get home.
I put the car to charge for about 1 hour on L1 when I got home.
9pm going to dinner : east SJ foothills to Mountain View : 19.1 miles. max freeway speed = 65 mph
My partner happened to mentioned on the way that he wanted to see a movie. I start to worry that we should have taken the Prius instead.
11pm go to movie : Mountain View to South SJ : 18.8 miles . max freeway speed = 55 mph . We were conscious to conserve battery
2am drive home from South SJ to east SJ foothills : 13.2 miles . freeway speed = 50mph, on cruise control
Total distance : 63.9 miles . Freeway miles : about 50 . We did have the heat the whole time, on lowest setting (1 bar).
We made it back home up the hill with no miles showing (---), no bars left, very low battery warning.
How close were we actually cutting it ?
I don't want to think how long the Nissan tow would take at 2am on Xmas eve, having experienced 2 hours at 11pm on regular business day 2 weeks ago when my Leaf got a flat.
When I first logged in to Carwings on my cell phone after plugging in the car, it showed a charge time of 25 hours (!) which is 4 hours more than the max 21 hours that Nissan quotes. Yes, I'm still charging on L1 at home.
About a minute later when I logged from my PC to capture this crazy charge time, it had already decreased to 19 hours. Logged back on the phone right after that, and it decreased even more to 18 hours.
I have never yet taken the car to turtle, but this is about my 3rd VLBW in 2 months. I have several 18 hour full charges on L1. I hardly think I am pushing the car with the speeds I'm driving. Tonight we drove it barely fast enough to make the movie after dinner (and missed the previews). The car was on cruise control almost the entire time on the freeway for all 4 trips from full charge.
The farthest I have gone from home with my Leaf so far was San Mateo which was 72 miles roundtrip. I drove 65mph on the way there, 55 on the way back with no heat, and ended up with 3 miles on the dashboard.