545 mile day tomorrow....

[jason61c]

I've a 'round robin' trip tomorrow.

535 miles. First long drive in an EV, not really the target journey for one either.

However I'm going into it with an open mind. it'll be interesting to see how it goes........

[LordFlathead]

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?

[jason61c]

it'll be interesting to see how far it'll go at motorway speed. it should hopefully do 200 miles

[RSpiston]

What car ? Rimac ?

[limpsfield]

I did 480 yesterday and the same again tomorrow. I came into m40 Oxford services with 15 miles left, but after 20 mins enough to get me home again. 10 degrees colder up north where I started from which hammered consumption for the first part of the trip

[andy43]

Yeah, what car is the important question. And this weather really isn’t helping range!

[gmaz]

Plan a charger stop, and plan for a nearby backup if your preferred in broken/full. Instavolt, Osprey and MFG are my preferred backups if the Gridserve on the motorway is occupied.

[jason61c]

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.

[Heres Johnny]

Without knowing where from and to comments are worthless. London to Carlisle and back and it’s a breeze. Norwich to Blackpool will be more testing.

[jason61c]

Exeter>Grantham>Lincoln>Nottingham>Exeter

[JonnyVTEC]

Rugby M6 J1 then for sure.

[georgeyboy12345]

Sounds pretty brutal! Good luck! Seems like it'll be at least 10 hours driving and at least an hour charging over several stops in total.

Let us know how you get on!

[andy43]

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 world party chargers but honestly I’d bet you won’t need them. Ours has been to Portugal - on super chargers 100% - you’ll be fine. Watch the weather though, plays havoc with estimated range, and set it to preheat before departure but you probably already knew that..

[jason61c]

Its set to preheat.

Grantham superchargers are 238miles from home.... I doubt it'll get that far!?

[SWoll]

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)

Edited by SWoll on Monday 27th December 20:55

[Evanivitch]

JonnyVTEC said:

Rugby M6 J1 then for sure.

I wouldn't count on it, very busy and even more so over the holiday period.

I thought OP was doing this in a e-UP or something. M3LR, breeze.

[off_again]

Pre-condition and pre-warm / cool whenever possible. Shouldn’t make a massive difference, but does add a little chunk on the range. And for few seconds on any app, it’s always nice to step into a warm / cool car!

Just takes a little of the pressure off.

[NNH]

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

[SWoll]

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.

[WestyCarl]

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.

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)