bradleygibson
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Ok, so I've had the car 6 months, and while the Blink has failed to charge on a several occasions (although not in the past 6 weeks or so, it must be said), I've never simply forgotten to plug the car in... Until now.
I guess with the dog, the baby, my wife and shuffling stuff in and out of the car, I forgot to plug the car in on Sunday night. We'd been driving around for most of the day and rolled in with two bars of charge (yep, the red ones).
The car sat around all day Monday, not plugged in, but I needed to travel from Woodinville to Bellevue, WA, a distance of 16.5mi. on Monday afternoon.
I jumped in the car and saw the two bars and 14 miles on the GOM. Crap!! (Or something like that )
I briefly debated not going, but then figured, what the heck?
I knew I wouldn't make it on the highway, so I drove on arterial streets (35-45mph) without climate control. I made it downtown, to a charging station just as '---' showed up on the GOM and my last bar disappeared. Two hours of L2 charging gave me 5 bars (!) which was plenty to run errands and get back home after my workout in Bellevue.
Other than my own absentmindedness, this experience only reinforced my belief that the GOM is really, really poor, because it can't know how the car will be driven. Very uncharacteristically, I kept the car down to a bubble or two, unless I was going uphill and/or holding up traffic by accelerating too slowly. Rather than telling me (repeatedly) that my destination was out of range, I would rather that display had the option to simply read the SOC in 1% increments. That would honestly have been much more helpful; I was just shown two bars of charge-- did I actually have 1.1 bars of charge or 2.9 bars of charge remaining in the battery?? That's a huge difference, but with the coarse graphical display of bars and the GOM all over the map, there was no way to tell!
So, just wanted to write in to make the above suggestion to Nissan, share my experience and to say that the range anxiety beast can be tamed.
Now I'm thinking about getting a T-shirt with "---" on the chest...
-Brad
I guess with the dog, the baby, my wife and shuffling stuff in and out of the car, I forgot to plug the car in on Sunday night. We'd been driving around for most of the day and rolled in with two bars of charge (yep, the red ones).
The car sat around all day Monday, not plugged in, but I needed to travel from Woodinville to Bellevue, WA, a distance of 16.5mi. on Monday afternoon.
I jumped in the car and saw the two bars and 14 miles on the GOM. Crap!! (Or something like that )
I briefly debated not going, but then figured, what the heck?
I knew I wouldn't make it on the highway, so I drove on arterial streets (35-45mph) without climate control. I made it downtown, to a charging station just as '---' showed up on the GOM and my last bar disappeared. Two hours of L2 charging gave me 5 bars (!) which was plenty to run errands and get back home after my workout in Bellevue.
Other than my own absentmindedness, this experience only reinforced my belief that the GOM is really, really poor, because it can't know how the car will be driven. Very uncharacteristically, I kept the car down to a bubble or two, unless I was going uphill and/or holding up traffic by accelerating too slowly. Rather than telling me (repeatedly) that my destination was out of range, I would rather that display had the option to simply read the SOC in 1% increments. That would honestly have been much more helpful; I was just shown two bars of charge-- did I actually have 1.1 bars of charge or 2.9 bars of charge remaining in the battery?? That's a huge difference, but with the coarse graphical display of bars and the GOM all over the map, there was no way to tell!
So, just wanted to write in to make the above suggestion to Nissan, share my experience and to say that the range anxiety beast can be tamed.
Now I'm thinking about getting a T-shirt with "---" on the chest...
-Brad