bryan38401
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Me and my dad were planning on seeing Gabriel Iglesias in Nashville in the coming two weeks and we were deciding whether or not to take the Leaf or a different car. The main problem is we did not know if the charging station at Nissan Head Quarters was working or not. We decided to test it for ourselves and drive to Franklin. On the way there, we followed behind a semi-truck and learned something very interesting. By using the “draft” concept Nascar drivers use, we stayed at a constant rate of power the whole way. We did not lose any power until the driver started to accelerate his speed and move away from us. As long as we were in his “draft”, we weren’t losing power or not losing as much. We would like to thank the driver for Eagle Express Lines for the chance to “draft”.
We finally reached the headquarters to find the level 3 charging station out front with two other level 2 chargers (they were from AeroVironment). At the front of the building, there is an intercom which you need to press and someone from security will come activate the charge with their keyfob which will start to charge the car. Thank you to the security guard for activating said station (and yes, they do drive Leafs). The time was 11:34 when we started and we were at 57%. After 30 minutes, we reached 98% charge. We both noticed it started to give us a slower charge and took an extra 30 minutes just for it to complete charging (we never got to 100%) but it did say we had a complete charge. The main idea behind this? Get your 30 minute charge and go. We have been told if you are below 50%, it will only get you to 80% and stop charging so next time we have a trip, we are going to test out that theory. If you would like to see the video of our trip, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAe4bfJb8gI&context=C3cf8b66ADOEgsToPDskKRnbe0Djwudpc-4nMCFjYc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and check it out for yourself. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Thank you for reading!
We finally reached the headquarters to find the level 3 charging station out front with two other level 2 chargers (they were from AeroVironment). At the front of the building, there is an intercom which you need to press and someone from security will come activate the charge with their keyfob which will start to charge the car. Thank you to the security guard for activating said station (and yes, they do drive Leafs). The time was 11:34 when we started and we were at 57%. After 30 minutes, we reached 98% charge. We both noticed it started to give us a slower charge and took an extra 30 minutes just for it to complete charging (we never got to 100%) but it did say we had a complete charge. The main idea behind this? Get your 30 minute charge and go. We have been told if you are below 50%, it will only get you to 80% and stop charging so next time we have a trip, we are going to test out that theory. If you would like to see the video of our trip, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAe4bfJb8gI&context=C3cf8b66ADOEgsToPDskKRnbe0Djwudpc-4nMCFjYc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and check it out for yourself. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Thank you for reading!