dndrich
Well-known member
Today was an interesting day with our Leaf. We drove from our house in Sonoma County to the hospital in San Rafael to visit a friend. Then a quick stop at the Blink QC at the market in San Anselmo for a top off. Now, that thing is amazing. Brought the charge up to 94% or so in about 20 minutes while I shopped for some food and got a sandwich. You could watch the percent climb while you watched it. Wow. Then, down to Stanford hospital in Palo Alto to visit yet another friend in the hospital. No I am not the finger of death. Charged at a nice L2 Chargepoint charger at the parking structure there. That one was not free, but I do not complain about paying for the electricity at all. I am just glad to have it. Got about 8 kWh there. Then, to San Francisco and the Sutter Stockton garage for a charge at the free Chargepoint L2 there, and some dinner near there. Thank you OpenTable. Very nice. Charged to about 85%, and drove home another 55 miles or so to my home with a charge of about 23% left. Didn't even hit the low battery warning.
So, it was fun to see what you can do if you plan for it, especially around here where we have a pretty good network of chargers, and even a few quick chargers. The gas car would have been more convenient to be sure, but we did what we needed to do and had a good time doing it. I definitely keep my speeds down when trying stuff like this. I think the car has about an 85 mile range right now in this kind of mixed driving that I do as long as I keep the speeds down on the freeway. Pretty good head wind coming north up to San Francisco, so that made me drive even just a bit slower too just to save some range.
So, it was fun to see what you can do if you plan for it, especially around here where we have a pretty good network of chargers, and even a few quick chargers. The gas car would have been more convenient to be sure, but we did what we needed to do and had a good time doing it. I definitely keep my speeds down when trying stuff like this. I think the car has about an 85 mile range right now in this kind of mixed driving that I do as long as I keep the speeds down on the freeway. Pretty good head wind coming north up to San Francisco, so that made me drive even just a bit slower too just to save some range.
