EricH
Well-known member
Had to drive up to Big Bear this weekend in my ICE - 90 miles one way, but the hill requires nearly a full charge near Highland (I'll defer to Abasile for the exact figure). It's only about 30 miles from Highland to Big Bear Lake (village), but about 6000 vertical feet, and the high temp was probably about 40 today.
This drive to my parents' house would be a cakewalk with a QC in Highland -- as Walgreen's is supposedly planning to do -- but is utterly impractical, unless you consider imposing on Fontana Nissan for a ~5 hour L2 charge each way "practical" (I live about 50 freeway miles from the dealership).
Somebody needs to put up key choke-point (Thousand Oaks, San Clemente/Oceanside, Redlands/Highland) DC chargers at an operating loss, at least for the first few years, so this would have to come from the same consortium that launched CHAdeMO in the first place (Nissan, Mitsubishi, et.al.) Really hard to believe they couldn't eat the operating costs, while lobbying fiercely (and probably with no utility opposition) for an exemption from punitive demand charges -- probably in exchange for a promise to charge customers a premium price on-peak. If the SoCal Nissan dealer could point to an in-place network of key QC chargers ("you can drive it to Santa Barbara or San Diego for a mere $15 each way!", I have to think that would motivate the next "wave" of potential LEAF buyers...
This drive to my parents' house would be a cakewalk with a QC in Highland -- as Walgreen's is supposedly planning to do -- but is utterly impractical, unless you consider imposing on Fontana Nissan for a ~5 hour L2 charge each way "practical" (I live about 50 freeway miles from the dealership).
Somebody needs to put up key choke-point (Thousand Oaks, San Clemente/Oceanside, Redlands/Highland) DC chargers at an operating loss, at least for the first few years, so this would have to come from the same consortium that launched CHAdeMO in the first place (Nissan, Mitsubishi, et.al.) Really hard to believe they couldn't eat the operating costs, while lobbying fiercely (and probably with no utility opposition) for an exemption from punitive demand charges -- probably in exchange for a promise to charge customers a premium price on-peak. If the SoCal Nissan dealer could point to an in-place network of key QC chargers ("you can drive it to Santa Barbara or San Diego for a mere $15 each way!", I have to think that would motivate the next "wave" of potential LEAF buyers...