DaveinOlyWA
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DougWantsALeaf said:Has anyone driven their Leaf in the 45-50 mile range for 80%+ of their battery? According to the charts, you should easily be able to push 100 miles at 45/hr. Yes this is bottom edge of freeway legal, but tolerable for distances of about up to 100 miles. Beyond that, its Tesla or ICE right now.
you might be able to do it but the times I went over 100 miles on a charge was all in town driving at 25-40 mph and I did a lot of coasting. now, I did this twice in Summer, once in Winter (that was a REAL challenge) and I think its not so much speed that is important since of the 3 100 mile events, only one was planned. the other two I did only because I had started out with really good numbers early and decided to go for it which means twice it happened during my somewhat normal driving routines and I think it was more a case of dumb luck than any driving skills I had in just hitting green lights, missing traffic, etc. IOW, the real issue is finding 100 miles of fairly open uninterrupted driving at low speeds... not such an easy thing to do