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Driving the Leaf Up Hills

October 9, 2013 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

Last week end we drove up Big and Little Cottonwood canyons with the leaf, while listening to the second session of General Conference.  We also drove up the canyons to check out the leaves.

My goal was to see how the leaf did up the hills and how much it would recharge going down the hills.   Up the first canyon we  were down to about 25 miles and 40% battery when we turned around.  by the time we got to the bottom were up to 47 miles and 50% battery.  It’s pretty cool that just going downhill can give the car more juice.

The second canyon we were down to 13 miles and 32% on the battery.  At the bottom we were at 42 mile and 40% on the battery.

Another cool effect was the next morning on a full charge it said it would go 116 miles.  It’s never been that high before.

The next uphill drive is going to be up to Park City.  We’ll see how that goes 😉

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