dhanson865
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So I'm cruising autotrader.com looking at used leafs. The thought is how far away can I buy a leaf without it turning into a multiday drive?
Take for this example trip: suppose I buy a used 10 bar leaf (with unknown capacity, might be strong 10 bar, or weak 10 bar) in Alpharetta, GA and drive it to the west side of Knoxville, TN. Assume the car has the 3.3KW charger and no L3 charging is available on the trip no matter if the car has the port or not. Just not much L3 charging happening in my part of the world
https://evtripplanner.com/planner/2-4/?id=4hox" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; shows a proposed trip charging on L2 public evses after about 55 miles travel, forcing me to stop and get a nearly full charge 3 times on the trip home. Travel time alone is 4 hours, how much time do I add for charging during that 200+ mile trip?
If it is fully charged I'd get no chance to test the EVSE that comes with the car. If the dealer charges to 80% or doesn't charge the car I'd probably have to do a partial or full charging session to stretch to the charging locations already on the trip.
How much time would you spend checking out a car you hadn't seen before when trying to check it out for purchase? Assume I have bluetooth ELM and phone with all the apps I'd want.
Assuming a trip down (4 hour drive) in the Prius can I possibly make a transaction and drive back home with both cars before I or my other driver is falling asleep at the wheel? Is it a 12 hour day, 16 hour day, 20 hour day? How tight would that schedule be?
There are several stretches of I75 in northern GA and southern TN that have no chargers and no exits worth stopping at for dozens of miles so there isn't room for misjudging by 10 miles on a charge. Chop it up and tell me if I'm underestimating the difficulty or just being overly cautious.
Take for this example trip: suppose I buy a used 10 bar leaf (with unknown capacity, might be strong 10 bar, or weak 10 bar) in Alpharetta, GA and drive it to the west side of Knoxville, TN. Assume the car has the 3.3KW charger and no L3 charging is available on the trip no matter if the car has the port or not. Just not much L3 charging happening in my part of the world
https://evtripplanner.com/planner/2-4/?id=4hox" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; shows a proposed trip charging on L2 public evses after about 55 miles travel, forcing me to stop and get a nearly full charge 3 times on the trip home. Travel time alone is 4 hours, how much time do I add for charging during that 200+ mile trip?
If it is fully charged I'd get no chance to test the EVSE that comes with the car. If the dealer charges to 80% or doesn't charge the car I'd probably have to do a partial or full charging session to stretch to the charging locations already on the trip.
How much time would you spend checking out a car you hadn't seen before when trying to check it out for purchase? Assume I have bluetooth ELM and phone with all the apps I'd want.
Assuming a trip down (4 hour drive) in the Prius can I possibly make a transaction and drive back home with both cars before I or my other driver is falling asleep at the wheel? Is it a 12 hour day, 16 hour day, 20 hour day? How tight would that schedule be?
There are several stretches of I75 in northern GA and southern TN that have no chargers and no exits worth stopping at for dozens of miles so there isn't room for misjudging by 10 miles on a charge. Chop it up and tell me if I'm underestimating the difficulty or just being overly cautious.