Have a safe and fun trip.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Couldn't resist the title.
I'm driving to San Jose today, heading out from Salt Lake City west on I-80 to Reno/Tahoe and down the hill to the 680 (between Fairfield and Vallejo) and on down to the offices (sort of near Great America Parkway and 237).
I have a Blink card because of the Fisker Blink charger, but it looks like it will do little if any good. The Chargepoint card I ordered is not here yet.
Bringing a heavy duty extension cord, so that I can charge at 120 V if nothing else.
I'm driving to San Jose today, heading out from Salt Lake City west on I-80 to Reno/Tahoe and down the hill to the 680 (between Fairfield and Vallejo) and on down to the offices (sort of near Great America Parkway and 237).
I have a Blink card because of the Fisker Blink charger, but it looks like it will do little if any good. The Chargepoint card I ordered is not here yet.
Bringing a heavy duty extension cord, so that I can charge at 120 V if nothing else.
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Have a save trip!!!
At least you can make it ... There are cars around, dreaming of range
Stefan
German Karma Forum
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At least you can make it ... There are cars around, dreaming of range
Stefan
German Karma Forum
www.karma-forum.de
Back in SLC. The entire trip went mostly without incident (I had one Check Engine P0004 code, I now think it's from doing the "top up" thing when the gas-station pump shuts off and I try to round out the dollar amount; I've stopped doing that and will see if that stops the P0004 incidents, but I have only had two anyway).
Total trip was about 1734 miles (including driving around San Jose—I did make it up to Berkeley on Thursday night). Total fuel usage was about 76 gallons except that I have not done the final refill, giving average mpg of about 22.8 (not bad considering the speeds involved ... let's just say that the car really will do what they say it will and the speed limit in most of NV is 75 mph and I rarely went much below that).
Best mileage was "in" San Jose (this includes going up to Berkeley and back) at 30.5 mpg. Could have done better if I'd known how to charge it the first night, and if there had been available chargers at restaurants (Berkeley, oddly enough, has almost no public charging anywhere). Interestingly, driving down from Reno to Vacaville (I put gas in at both of those points) I got 26.7 mpg down the hill. On the way back, going uphill from Auburn (foothills above Sacramento) to Sparks (just east of Reno—lunch stop as well as fuel), I still got 20.15 mpg.
Total trip was about 1734 miles (including driving around San Jose—I did make it up to Berkeley on Thursday night). Total fuel usage was about 76 gallons except that I have not done the final refill, giving average mpg of about 22.8 (not bad considering the speeds involved ... let's just say that the car really will do what they say it will
and the speed limit in most of NV is 75 mph and I rarely went much below that).Best mileage was "in" San Jose (this includes going up to Berkeley and back) at 30.5 mpg. Could have done better if I'd known how to charge it the first night, and if there had been available chargers at restaurants (Berkeley, oddly enough, has almost no public charging anywhere). Interestingly, driving down from Reno to Vacaville (I put gas in at both of those points) I got 26.7 mpg down the hill. On the way back, going uphill from Auburn (foothills above Sacramento) to Sparks (just east of Reno—lunch stop as well as fuel), I still got 20.15 mpg.
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