webeleafowners wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:27 pm
Astros wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:51 pm
webeleafowners wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:37 pm
Meh. Seems like a reasonable trade off. Cost of travelling is not a huge budget line item but there is no way it wasn't cheaper in the leaf. Just sayin.
Oh, it was much cheaper to take the Leaf. Even if we didn't have the no charge to charge program, Webasto offers unlimited charging for $20/month. Since we used two non-free chargers, we spent $16 to drive 950 miles. At current gas prices, a 30mpg car would cost a little over $100 for this trip. I'm happy to spend that on nice food instead
And, the Leaf did get us there with time to spare for our 8pm show, so I have no complaints!
And you get to take credit for taking you wife to nicer restaurants...even if it didn't cost you anymore.
It would be interesting to see the trip duration delta if the chargers had been 100 KW units. Our one trip that we make fairly often is exactly 554 kilomters to the hotel (with destination charging. Our halfway point charge stop has a single 50 KW Chademo/CCS station. Petro Can is currently putting in a dual Chademo and Dual CCS in the same town. It should be finished by Christmas. Our Eplus SL arrives in March. Right now with our current leaf (2016 SV) we charge three times. Having said that the 30 KW doesn't take long to charge and doesn't seem to suffer much from multiple charges. Great car.
The hilly part of this route is
exactly one I take often, and need the range to get up there with a maximum of 1 stop, and hopefully not too long. We drive from Seattle to Kelowna at least once a year. And those are some big hills! I also tend drive it a littler faster than the posted limit (120kmh for much of the out-of-town parts).
I'm looking forward to the Petro Canada stations. I just saw a screenshot on Reddit of a Leaf charging at 73kW @ 35% SoC at one of the new stations they have installed.