TonyWilliams said:
madbrain said:
Actually 65 miles total, mostly freeway. But I will be making stops at two different offices. I can either charge at the QC half-way, or on L1 on the way back at the second office. I will then have my regular 13 mile commute back home.
It should be doable without the QC, especially since I don't have the HOV decals yet, I may be stuck in traffic at low speeds at least half of the way.
Your trip is doable without ANY charging (with a new car, no battery degradation, no seriously cold weather), which is one of the things you'll learn. If you can get a charge, that's great. But I would certainly plan that trip with no charge (and limit speed to 55-60mph).
My battery was fully charged by the time I left - I guess the GOM is not just about mileage but also expected battery charging time. It was at least done charging about 1h30min early.
First 32 miles my GOM went down from 89 miles (ECO) to 45. I was driving 65, and had 7 bars left so did not try to charge.
Next 24 miles, the GOM (ECO) went down to 21, and only 3 bars left.
I still need to drive another 13 on the way home later tonight. I don't feel confident that I will get home tonight with GOM at 21 without charging, at least not without another LBW or perhaps my first VLBW . It's a 13 mile drive, mostly freeway, and that last half mile has taken a minimum of 5 miles off the GOM every time.
So, I plugged in the L1 into one of the two 120V outlets.
There was a Voltec plugged in to the other shared 120 outlet . The Volt started beeping because there isn't enough juice for the two L1 chargers ...
I got an email from the Volt owner saying he unplugged me, I told him my situation and he plugged me back in as he was leaving..
The web app shows the car is charging again with 17% charge and GOM 23. Based on 73 mile range, 17% is 12.41 miles which is about 0.5 mile short of what I would need to get home. And of course we know what that last half mile uphill entails in terms of energy consumption ...
Oh, when I left earlier, I reset all the counters to zero just before driving downhill.
I saw the realtime miles/kWh go into double digits both on the dash and on the LCD screen.
At the end of that half mile, at the stop sign, the dash was showing an average 27.0 miles/kWh, and the LCD 36.1 miles/kWh . I was driving at about 20 mph in ECO mode, with the foot on the brake, as I normally do.