webeleafowners said:
Our 2020 Leaf Eplus SL doesn’t arrive till February ish. Once in awhile we will be making a 550 to 625 km per day trip from BC to Palm Springs and back. Maybe once per year max. We tend to travel max 8 hours per day and take two 15 minute breaks and a lunch break of around half hour or so. Would like to hear from others owning the Eplus if this sounds like a reasonable day as far as combining charging with our scheduled breaks. We will stay in hotels with Level 2 destination chargers overnight. We have been doing this trip for years in our Motorhome or Grand Cherokee but next year will be the first time in an EV.
Thoughts.
Thanks.
I've only had my Leaf Plus for 2 months and I don't now what others on the forum here think but I like using "A Better Route Planner" for determining how realistic a route is and what kind of stops I may have to make along the way. Here's an example of the route I think you're talking about in your post. https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=b6d80060-89de-4500-9887-5d89dbd94f4c
What you'll want to do to see what might work best for you is click the back button at the top left and you can adjust your speed, rate of consumption, what you want your arrival and departure charge %s to be, the outside temps, and get a pretty good estimate of where and how often you'll need to stop on your journey. California has many many more charging stations than where I live (Ohio) so it's much more likely that you could make the journey without too much difficulty. The only thing you might have some concern about is charging multiple times in a day (rapidgate) but it looks like Nissan actually just released a "fix" for the charge throttling so that may or may not be as big of an issue by February.
My husband have made the 222 mile trip from our house up to Cleveland 3 times since we bought the car (note summer 80/90F weather). If we drive 65mph we can just about make it there (it gets hilly towards the end so it uses more energy), getting home if we started out at 100% we could for sure make it going 65mph but we never start at 100% from Cleveland since we're only trickle charging there. Getting to my point, the route planner I mentioned above was almost spot on for estimating our % upon arrival but that's really all I can offer, hope that helps!