Did you know the average LEAF is plugged into a Charger for 9 hours but only charges for 2 hours a day?
I went to an EV conference last week where Idaho National Labs presented data collected from the EV Project. They had hard data from 956 Nissan LEAFs which they were to collate with data collected from the residential BLINK units.
Frankly I was very surprised, as my wife and I often drive 70-80 miles per days around Thousand Oaks & Los Angeles. So we are charging many more hours than this.
The PG&E speaker at the conference took this data and then said that Level 1 charging will be sufficient for most EV drivers. I thought this was crazy...
Here is the full report http://avt.inl.gov/pdf/prog_info/TheNetworkedEVSanFranOct2011.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Neal
I went to an EV conference last week where Idaho National Labs presented data collected from the EV Project. They had hard data from 956 Nissan LEAFs which they were to collate with data collected from the residential BLINK units.
Frankly I was very surprised, as my wife and I often drive 70-80 miles per days around Thousand Oaks & Los Angeles. So we are charging many more hours than this.
The PG&E speaker at the conference took this data and then said that Level 1 charging will be sufficient for most EV drivers. I thought this was crazy...
Here is the full report http://avt.inl.gov/pdf/prog_info/TheNetworkedEVSanFranOct2011.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Neal