{"id":935,"date":"2014-06-02T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/?p=935"},"modified":"2014-06-02T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:36:05","slug":"10-minutes-a-day-ev-adventure-to-park-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2014\/06\/02\/10-minutes-a-day-ev-adventure-to-park-city\/","title":{"rendered":"10 minutes a day &#8211; Adventures in Driving my EV to Park City."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read some advice that suggested one of the things I might try each day is writing for 10 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a0They said just to let it flow.<\/p>\n<p>The last couple of nights Kate has been waking up a couple of times a night, I think because she is growing and hungry. \u00a0It 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. \u00a0Saturday into Sunday morning was bad. \u00a0Kate woke up sometime after 1:30 and by 3:00 am I still wasn&#8217;t asleep so I took a couple of ibuprofen for my head ache. \u00a0After 30 minutes I still had a headache so I thought I would take a shot at driving to Park city. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always been affaid to make the attempt because it&#8217;s mostly uphill. \u00a0 I had let me car get a full charge and so I headed up. \u00a0I was surprised to see my car, a Nissan Leaf, \u00a0made it all the way to Park city with only draining half a charge. \u00a0I was pushing the car and I went over the speed limit a couple of times. \u00a0I really was not try to conserve any electricity going up. Once arriving on the main street in Park City, \u00a0I then reset my miles per Kilowatt hour meter and started down. \u00a0I didn&#8217;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. \u00a0I will try the drive again, but I am going to let the car rest a bit before coming back down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to see th potential distance for a full charge at 117 the next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read some advice that suggested one of the things I might try each day is writing for 10 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a0They 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. \u00a0It has been difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journal-entry","7":"category-leaf","8":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. 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