My Leaf is scheduled for July, which I figure means End of July or August. The company is moving to a new location in November, one that creates a 71 (or 66, if I go a different way) round trip (and I used my Prius to get the exact distance).
To be honest, it's commute, and a lot of it is freeway. Due to the traffic in the SF Bay Area, which the new location, I desperately need to get into the HOV lane to make my life less than miserable. I plan to use ECO mode all the time and no more than 65 (maybe 60, but in the Bay Area, that's asking for someone up my a**).
Right now, the Leaf is my only option for the HOV lane. The Volt is supposed to get the HOV lane "sometime" in 2012, but no one knows when that is. The plug-in Prius is set for April 2012. So I could have months of driving hell.
On the other hand, I might have range anxiety daily and have a heart attack. :-(
The question is, will it make that distance (esp. if it rains, since I read that the drag wlll decrease range)? AFAIK, no place to charge at the new location.
To be honest, it's commute, and a lot of it is freeway. Due to the traffic in the SF Bay Area, which the new location, I desperately need to get into the HOV lane to make my life less than miserable. I plan to use ECO mode all the time and no more than 65 (maybe 60, but in the Bay Area, that's asking for someone up my a**).
Right now, the Leaf is my only option for the HOV lane. The Volt is supposed to get the HOV lane "sometime" in 2012, but no one knows when that is. The plug-in Prius is set for April 2012. So I could have months of driving hell.
On the other hand, I might have range anxiety daily and have a heart attack. :-(
The question is, will it make that distance (esp. if it rains, since I read that the drag wlll decrease range)? AFAIK, no place to charge at the new location.