545 mile day tomorrow....
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Simple. Put destination into the satnav. Pick out the first charger within 100 miles then do splash and dash with the rest. If you choose to stop for less time and move on to the next nearest charger you never get bad surprises. Only range in the tank and zero range anxiety. I frequently do London > Mid Wales and back where there are less chargers. Once you've noted the chargers enroot its easy. Sod sitting on a single charger for 30 minutes how boring is that?
andy43 said:
Yeah, what car is the important question. And this weather really isn’t helping range!
Tesla model 3, 'long range'. which isn't really that much longer than the normal one.The cars satnav is racist though so only shows Tesla chargers, not worked out how to get it to show others.
jason61c said:
Exeter>Grantham>Lincoln>Nottingham>Exeter
Didn’t want to mention the T word but as it’s a Tesla there’s a couple of Superchargers north of Exeter-ish, defo Grantham, no idea on Lincoln but Notts should be covered I would have thought? I’d preplan with ABRP just in case.There’s no way to get the car to show those dirty third
I'd use use the Hopwood Park Supercharger (M42 JCT 2) both ways assuming M5/M42/M6/M69. 16 bays so unlikely you'll have to wait. Only V2 superchargers so 150kW max but will do the job, the V3's drop very quickly to V2 speeds anyway IME.
Exeter > Hopwood Park Supercharger
Hopwood Park Supercharger > Grantham
Grantham > Lincoln
Lincoln > Nottingham
Nottingham > Hopwood Park Supercharger
Hopwood Park Supercharger > Exeter
Just make sure you set your destination as the supercharger so you get battery warming en-route for best charge speeds. Expect you'll need to do 90% charges each way, and keep your speed to 70-75mph would be my advice.
Good luck.
ETA - You could do more stops and keep the charge speeds within the fastest point in the curve (0-50% SOC) but in my experience the additional faffing around isn't worth it)
Exeter > Hopwood Park Supercharger
Hopwood Park Supercharger > Grantham
Grantham > Lincoln
Lincoln > Nottingham
Nottingham > Hopwood Park Supercharger
Hopwood Park Supercharger > Exeter
Just make sure you set your destination as the supercharger so you get battery warming en-route for best charge speeds. Expect you'll need to do 90% charges each way, and keep your speed to 70-75mph would be my advice.
Good luck.
ETA - You could do more stops and keep the charge speeds within the fastest point in the curve (0-50% SOC) but in my experience the additional faffing around isn't worth it)
Edited by SWoll on Monday 27th December 20:55
We did one of our longest EV drives yesterday in a Kia Niro. Pasadena - Altadena - Downtown LA - Costa Mesa, and then the same route back collecting and dropping off various in-laws. 70-85mph on the freeway, plus normal surface street speeds. I was impressed that even with all the freeway driving, the range display only dropped by 155 miles from 210 to 55, on a 145 mile journey. We'll feel more confident in future!
Have a great trip, OP
Have a great trip, OP
NNH said:
We did one of our longest EV drives yesterday in a Kia Niro. Pasadena - Altadena - Downtown LA - Costa Mesa, and then the same route back collecting and dropping off various in-laws. 70-85mph on the freeway, plus normal surface street speeds. I was impressed that even with all the freeway driving, the range display only dropped by 155 miles from 210 to 55, on a 145 mile journey. We'll feel more confident in future!
Have a great trip, OP
Your weather is rather better than ours in late december, and the e-Niro is one of the most honest cars with regards to range. Have a great trip, OP
jason61c said:
Its set to preheat.
Grantham superchargers are 238miles from home.... I doubt it'll get that far!?
At 70ish my M3 LR will reach about 250-260miles at the moment, so you may just do it.Grantham superchargers are 238miles from home.... I doubt it'll get that far!?
Don't reply on the range millage readout, it's at least 20% optomitistic in cold weather, the % battery arrival on the sat Nav is usually with 1-2%. (as long as you don't do anything crazy)
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