anth
Winger
i've just been looking at a leaf on autotrader just out of curiosities sake. it's actually quite nice inside, outside is a bit bland but i'm not really a car enthusiast as such as far as modern cars go.
anyway, this is why it'd be no good for me personally.
it's a 62kwh with a range of 239 miles which is canny.
to get to cardiff on friday which is 300 miles away. i'd need to set off at home which means leaving it on charge for either 32 hours on a 3 pin plug or 11 hours 30 mins if i had a fast home charger.
lets say i stop to top it back up after 200 miles (would that be a realistic range bearing in mind we just plod on about 60-65ish?) i'd need to stop and charge it up for 2 hours to get it to 80% to complete the journey then leave it somewhere near the ground and possibly top it up whilst be get beat.
leave there with a full charge but still not enough to get home and have to stop for up to 2 hours to get home.
it does say that 2 hours would get the battery up to 80% so i'm presuming you just leave it on charge until you've got enough to get home/wherever with a bit wiggle room?
edit, hope this makes sense
The leaf isn’t a car I’m familiar with. So I’ll use my Mach e as an example instead.
It’s normally set to charge to 80% each night, I’d set it to be 100% the night before going to Cardiff. It’s rare the car is below 50% so it would easily get to 100% between midnight and 7am when my electricity costs 8p per kWh on my 7kWh home charger.
I would stop near Birmingham. Zapmap says somewhere called star city has some 150kw chargers and a few fast food places, it’s 200miles away so plenty of margin. 15mins on there leaves plenty to get to charge.
On arrival at Cardiff I’d go to a charger, zap map has a bank of 350kw chargers 1 mile away from the stadium. Stick that on and walk to the ground. 2 hours for the match, plus 20mins walk each way. The car will be well over 90% full for the return leg.
On the way home you could stop somewhere like ferrybridge for a quick 15min stretch your legs and toilet break while the car gets another fast charge while you do. Yous get home with plenty of margin. Stick it in the home charger and it’ll be at the normal 80% for the next day.
My car was delivered from Evesham which is south of Birmingham, it did the journey to mine without a recharge and got here with 24% of the battery remaining. Cardiff is further, and having done the Cardiff drive before I’d personally want to stop on the way, so sticking the car on charge while you stop is no hardships at all.
