planet4ever
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You mean like by putting a typo in your tag line?wgs1912 said:It is better to let people think your stupid than open your mouth and prove it.
(Sorry, no offense intended; just giving you a bad time. )
You mean like by putting a typo in your tag line?wgs1912 said:It is better to let people think your stupid than open your mouth and prove it.
planet4ever said:You mean like by putting a typo in your tag line?wgs1912 said:It is better to let people think your stupid than open your mouth and prove it.
(Sorry, no offense intended; just giving you a bad time. )
My driving pattern is atypical, because I am retired, but I suppose it might be interesting, anyway. After all, there are lots of retired people around.evnow said:Can you publish the numbers (basically select a few ranges of miles and then the # of days you travelled those many miles) and your analysis of the relative advantages of Civic, Prius, Volt, and LEAF for that pattern?planet4ever said:For nearly a year, now, I've been trying to jot down the mileage on my Civic the first time I got into it each day.
planet4ever said:On some days I do not drive a car at all, and I have excluded those. For the days I do drive, the average distance I go is 27.5 miles, but that is misleading as you can see from the following table (which you will note is not a linear scale):
6483 miles in 236 days of driving spread over 11 months. (However, as I said once before, there were some days - I'm not sure how many, but perhaps a dozen or so - when I forgot, or was too rushed, to record my mileage, so I really drove on more than 236 days. I treated that as equivalent to failing to plug in overnight.)evnow said:This is great info. So, how many days total is that ?planet4ever said:On some days I do not drive a car at all, and I have excluded those. For the days I do drive, the average distance I go is 27.5 miles, but that is misleading as you can see from the following table (which you will note is not a linear scale):
planet4ever said:6483 miles in 236 days of driving spread over 11 months. (However, as I said once before, there were some days - I'm not sure how many, but perhaps a dozen or so - when I forgot, or was too rushed, to record my mileage, so I really drove on more than 236 days. I treated that as equivalent to failing to plug in overnight.)
Maybe, if it is a smart meter. The older TOU meters provided by PG&E, like the one I have, just accumulate kWh forever on three different counters, one each for peak, partial peak, and off peak. You might be able to estimate by getting the off-peak number in the evening and again in the morning, and also by padding out to the meter with a flashlight sometime after midnight to get the instantaneous rate, hopefully at a time when the refrigerator isn't running.Rat said:If I can't get the charging stop time from the Leaf, I can probably get it from the TOU meter the utility company installs. I think those things show hour-by-hour, but I don't have one yet. The Leaf charging should be pretty evident there.
Rat said:I went to the Leaf test drive today and learned that you can set the Carwings program to send you an email when it reaches the charge level you set it for, so that should obviate the need to log the times manually. I don't know what data will be in the email, but the header should at least tell you when it completed charging. I may still enter the distance/charge time data in a spreadsheet for a while.
Now THAT's the best news I have heard todayLEAFfan said:And if you don't have a 'smart' phone, it will still send text messages to a regular cell phone.
I'll take the email, thank you. Not only do my wife and I not have smart phones, we have cell phones on a "senior" plan that charges us 20 cents extra for each text message. Yes, I realize that's "only" about $6/month; it's still money.LEAFfan said:And if you don't have a 'smart' phone, it will still send text messages to a regular cell phone.
planet4ever said:I'll take the email, thank you.
Now that's the weirdest thing I've heard all day.mwalsh said:I'm not a huge fan of the telephone (smart or otherwise) as a communications device.
GroundLoop said:Now that's the weirdest thing I've heard all day. :ugeek:
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