Still haven't had any cold weather here (unseasonably mild, bicycle weather) but I'll add another cool weather trip. This is the main grocery shopping trip I was hoping the LEAF could make in winter.
Trip: my home to Montrose, Colorado and return
Distance traveled: 62.5 miles
Elevation delta: about 2500 feet,
Altitude: Start 7670', high 8000', low 5750', mostly downhill outbound and uphill homebound
Temperature: 43º outbound, 25º-22º homebound (night)
Battery temp: four bars start to finish
Charge: 100%, with cabin preheating
Speed: mostly 30 to 60 outbound, mostly 40 to 50 homebound, except for the last ten miles at 25 to 35.
Road: ten miles of dirt outbound, all paved homebound (longer route), paved road was dry
Heat: steering wheel and seat heaters homebound plus brief defogging, otherwise off
Drive setting: Eco, some brief coasting on mild downhill stretches when terrain permitted
Trees: I made two trees on the homebound, uphill, portion of the trip
Miles/kWh meter: 7.1 at mile 26 outbound 4.3/4.4 overall.
Fun GoM observation: at mile 14 I was showing 135 miles on the useless GoM!
Range anxiety meter: Off, definitely off, after this experiment
Results: I made it to Montrose, a distance of about 26 miles by the shorter dirt road route, with ten bars. On the way home I lost the third bar 2.5 miles from the end and probably made up some of it with regen since it is mostly downhill from there. With about two full bars left, my total range was likely over 80 miles despite cool temperatures and considerable elevation change. I had to drive home slowly (40 - 50 in a 60 zone) because it was night and the danger from deer on the road is extreme*; I was using high beams a lot. I'd like to do the entire trip in daylight so I can see how it goes at 60, but it seems likely that I could make it easily.
Whether or not I could make this trip in winter was my biggest concern when buying the LEAF. I guess I needn't have worried. I was astounded to get to Montrose with ten bars on the fuel gauge.
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I lost my previous car to a collision with a deer; deer and elk are the most common cause of collisions here.