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10 minutes a day – Adventures in Driving my EV to Park City.

June 2, 2014 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

I read some advice that suggested one of the things I might try each day is writing for 10 minutes.   They said just to let it flow.

The last couple of nights Kate has been waking up a couple of times a night, I think because she is growing and hungry.  It has been difficult for me because I have been getting to bed later than I should and then we I am awakened it is difficult to go back to sleep.  Saturday into Sunday morning was bad.  Kate woke up sometime after 1:30 and by 3:00 am I still wasn’t asleep so I took a couple of ibuprofen for my head ache.  After 30 minutes I still had a headache so I thought I would take a shot at driving to Park city.  I’ve always been affaid to make the attempt because it’s mostly uphill.   I had let me car get a full charge and so I headed up.  I was surprised to see my car, a Nissan Leaf,  made it all the way to Park city with only draining half a charge.  I was pushing the car and I went over the speed limit a couple of times.  I really was not try to conserve any electricity going up. Once arriving on the main street in Park City,  I then reset my miles per Kilowatt hour meter and started down.  I didn’t realize how much I had heated up the battery, because the two hills I charged up on the way back really drained my battery and kept my average to 7.7 by the time I arrived home.  I will try the drive again, but I am going to let the car rest a bit before coming back down.

 

It was fun to see th potential distance for a full charge at 117 the next morning.

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