Hey Leftie. Angela and I typically limit our days to about 600 km per day on a 2350 km road trip four day trip. We typically stop three times per day. A 15 minute mid morning exercise/coffee/chihuahua break, a 30 minute lunch break and then one more mid afternoon break. We do this return trip about twice per year. Given our laid back pace how do you think the trip would go. I think we would plan our breaks and lunch around Chademo stops. Overnight charging at hotels.LeftieBiker wrote:I forgot to mention road trips. Nissan marketing aside, the Leaf is NOT good for extended road trips. It's fine for "one QC" extended day trips, but for anything longer the Tesla is the car for the job. Although I personally would be pretty unhappy taking a winter road trip in a RWD car with no heated steering wheel...
It would definetly be the 62 KWh leaf plus. We actually do some fairly significant one day road trips in our existing 30 Kwh SV. We obviously stop more often and of course in BC the speed limits are slower. We travel about 500 km in a fairly normal travel day. The Chihuahua loves the breaks. Lol.LeftieBiker wrote:This isn't my area of expertise. Given that, I'd say that the last 100km each day would be the tricky part. Slowing down a bit so you got there with just one full QC and one partial one sounds doable in mild weather. If it were hot and/or you wanted to drive at freeway speeds I think you'd want the 62kwh Leaf. I guess it comes down to whether or not your driving style and the route yield the necessary range. People seem to be able to get 320km from the 40kwh Leaf on leisurely secondary road trips. If it comes close, keep in mind capacity loss over the years - those two QC stops would likely become three...
That’s what we thought. We are walkers and hikers so we are never board on a break.LeftieBiker wrote:That should be doable with one QC stop per day. Given the reduced heating of the 62kwh pack, a second, partial QC would be easy enough if needed.
I watched the battery capacity of my 2011 Canary pack drop 2% last year. End of comparison.SageBrush wrote:I watch the battery capacity of our LEAF drop by the month. End of comparison