- My Leaf Charging Experience -
- First, the summary -
On a full charge, I can go about 60 miles on highway - ECO.
On a full charge, I can go about 90 miles at around 40mph - ECO.
On 110V, it takes about 5 hours to recharge my usual ~20 miles commute.
- About consumption -
Before the trip, state of charge shows 75% capacity.
The trip was on 50% highway, ~38 miles.
After the 38 mile trip, state of charge shows 25% capacity.
That means that about 76 miles would have been with a full charge.
(No, I did NOT use the climate control)
Note, that the car and the web prediction agrees on range (31~32 miles), but not on charge time.
In our case:
Original prediction was 75% to do 82 miles.
We got 50% to do 38 miles.
That means the original prediction should've said 57 miles.
That's 44% deviation!!! A LOT!!!
(I can only assume, that this huge difference is because the original prediction was using
my previous driving characteristics which was city driving and this was a highway drive.)
Current prediction : 1.24 mile/%
- About charging -
There is going to be a lot of graphs below to support this chart :
This chart essentially shows, that charging is predictable and non-linear, which was expected.
There were 3 charging sessions, thus the 3 "Range" and "mile/%" graphs.
Now the supporting data :
After charging the car for one hour :
Original estimate said 13, now it's 11.
That's charging twice as fast as predicted...
In the first hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 1.1 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 2 all together ) :
Original estimate 11, now 9:30.
We are now charging only 1.5x faster than estimated.
In the second hour, we charged 9%
Current prediction : 0.95 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 3 all together ) :
Original estimate 9:30, now 8:30.
We are now charging exactly as estimated.
In the third hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 0.88 mile/%
*** Unfortunately I had to stop charging after this entry ***
- A new charging session, after 10 miles city driving -
We are starting from here :
Current prediction : 1.27 mile/%
After charging the car one hour :
We are charging 1.5x faster than estimated.
In the first hour, we charged 9%
Current prediction : 1.12 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 2 all together ) :
Original estimate 9:30, now 8:00.
We are still charging 1.5x faster than estimated.
In the second hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 1.04 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 3 all together ) :
Original estimate 8:00, now 7:00.
We are now charging exactly as estimated.
In the third hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 0.98 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 4 all together ) :
Original estimate 7:00, now 6:30.
We are now charging 50% behind.
In the fourth hour, charging did not register.
Current prediction : 1.07 mile/%
- 15 minutes after this entry, charge showed 67%, 63 miles, 6:00 charging time -
After charging the car an other hour ( 5 all together ) :
Original estimate 6:30, now 5:00.
We are now charging 1.5x times faster.
In the fifth hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 1.00 mile/%
- 15 minutes after this entry, charge showed 75%, 69 miles, 4:30 charging time -
After charging the car an other hour ( 6 all together ) :
Original estimate 5:00, now 4:00.
We are now charging exactly as estimated.
In the sixth hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 0.96 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 7 all together ) :
Original estimate 4:00, now 3:00.
We are now charging exactly as estimated.
In the sixth hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 0.92 mile/%
After charging the car an other half-hour ( 7.5 all together ) :
Original estimate 3:00, now 2:30.
We are now charging exactly as estimated.
Current prediction : 0.95 mile/%
*** Unfortunately I had to stop charging after this entry ***
- A new charging session, after 6 miles city driving -
We are starting from here :
Current prediction : 1.09 mile/%
After charging the car one hour :
We are charging 1.5x faster than estimated.
In the first hour, we charged 8%
Current prediction : 1.07 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 2 all together ) :
Original estimate 2:30, now 2:00.
We are charging a bit behind of the estimated.
In the second hour, we charged 9%
Current prediction : 1.00 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 3 all together ) :
Original estimate 2:00, now 1:30.
We are charging slower than the estimated.
In the third hour, charging did not register.
Current prediction : 1.00 mile/%
After charging the car an other hour ( 4 all together ) :
Original estimate 1:30, now 0:50.
We are charging slower than the estimated.
In the fourth hour, charging still did not register.
Current prediction : 1.06 mile/%
After charging the car an other half-an-hour ( 4.5 all together ) :
Original estimate 0:50, now 0:30.
We are charging slower than the estimated.
In this period, charging reached 100%.
Current prediction : 1.01 mile/%
*** Since the car was charged, I stopped charging after this entry ***
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