Several recent posts on this thread saying hills limit their range, suggest the same underestimate of energy ascent recovery, as is shown in the range chart. Most of the energy used in climbing, will be recovered, as long as you return to the same altitude you started from.
In fact, I think most all those who regularly drive their LEAFs with large ascents and descents, have found similar ratios of ascent energy recovery that I have, about 80%, rather than the 50% shown in the range chart.
So while ascent is a significant factor in trips with ascents and descents of thousands of feet, it is a smaller variable, when only totaling hundreds of feet, than battery/ambient temperature.
The greatest range variable, by far, is speed.
I have never done a 100 mile drive without recharging simply because it is not easy to
safely drive, slowly enough, on a flat enough road, near my home. My longest range drive, over 92 miles to just past VLBW, on a hot summer day averaging about 40 mph, was a two way trip on the road profile below, with the first few (left of profile) miles repeated several times at the end, for a total ascent/descent of between 5,000 and 5,500 ft.
Maybe this Summer, I’ll try to repeat a few of the relatively flat miles near Burney Falls State Park, at the right of the profile, at low speed, to reach 100 miles with 5,000 feet of ascent and descent. It shouldn't be too difficult.