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2017-12-22 e-Golf Drive To Truckee Posted on December 27, 2017 14:24:16.
Left Santa Rosa 2:30 PM, both thermostats 65F, 1392 ODO.
Arrived at Roseville Whole Foods 5:15 PM, 18% charge, 1502 ODO, 25 mile range. Fast charged while eating dinner at Whole Foods. 69% charge after 30 minutes.
Arrived in Colfax 6:35 PM, 29% charge, 1536 ODO. Fast charged on rightmost charger successfully this time, compared to it failing when driving up for Thanksgiving. Left with 13/16 charge at 7:09 PM.
Arrive Nyack Shell 7:38 PM after overshooting 1 exit, 43% charge, 1562 ODO. Left at 8:13 PM with 87% charge. Kingvale was offline!
Arrive at Tahoe Donner 8:50 PM, 9/16 charge, 1594 ODO, 55 mi range. Total time 6:20, drive time 4:40, charge time 1:40. Took 3 stops this time, probably due to being colder than at Thanksgiving; forgot to record temperature this time.
2017-11-24 e-Golf Drive From Truckee Posted on November 26, 2017 14:08:58.
Car fully charged from 3/16 in 27 hours on 120V. ODO 823.
Went on 20 miles of errands around Truckee, then left for home. Left at 3:59 PM, fuel gage 7/8, range 96 miles, ODO 843 miles.
- At bottom of Northwoods, 7/8, 117, 847, 50 degrees outside.
- At Donner Summit exit 176, 25/32, 77, 854, 45.
- Drove past chargers in Kingvale exit 171, 25/32, 104, 860, 47.
- Nyack exit 156, 23/32, 107, 875, 52.
- Dutch Flat exit 145, 23/32, 132, 886, 55.
- Colfax exit 135, 11/16, 127, 896, 61.
- Auburn exit 119C, 5/8, 116, 911, 64.
- Loomis exit 110, 5/8, 113, 920, 64, 7.1 mi/kWh, the best reported for the day, after 7K' drop in 66 miles.
- Roseville exit 105A, 19/32, 110, 925, 66.
- West Sac exit 88, 7/16, 73, 948, 64.
- Davis exit 72, 11/32, 52, 958, 63.
- Dixon exit 66, 5/16, 42, 965, 63. Safely dafted behind truck at 60 to 65 MPH.
- Eco mode came on 31 mile range exit 56 505 Redding.
Charged in Vacaville exit 55, 18%, 31, 978. 155 miles driven! 18%. Started at 6:19. 20.1 kWh drawn on fast charger, then moved to level II and drew 7.6 kWh until full. Left at 8:15 PM, after outlet mall shopping and dinner.
Arrived home at 9:37 PM, 23/32, 88, 1038, 56.
Fast Charging Station List Posted on November 23, 2017 23:59:12.
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2017-11-22 e-Golf Drive To Truckee Posted on November 23, 2017 18:25:36.
Started full in Santa Rosa, 134 mile range, 6:15 PM, ODO 630 miles. Recuperation mode 3, eco mode, heater set to 65. Generally going speed limit, up to 65 on freeway. Mostly light traffic.
- Drove by Fairfield chargers, range 92, ODO 681, 3 out of 25 chargers between Santa Rosa and Truckee taken.
- Drove by Vacaville, range 89, ODO 687.
- Drove by Dixon, range 81, ODO 697.
Charged in Davis, range 77, ODO 704, 7:56 PM arrive, 4.6 mi/kWh, 62 degrees outside. 96% after 30 mins.$11, 16 kWh, 149 mile range. Took almost 1 hour to eat at Hot Italian pizza.
- Drove by Roseville, range 93, ODO 739.
- Drove by Loomis, range 85, ODO 743.
- Drove by Auburn, range 59, ODO 752, fuel 17/32.
Charged in Colfax, fuel 3/8, range 35, ODO 768, 9:59 PM arrive. Right charger "#1" failed twice after trying to communicate with vehicle, said "transaction voided". Submitted report from EVgo app. Successfully started on left charger "#2", 36%, 100 amps. After 30 mins, down to 88 amps, 85%, 357 VDC, 17 kWh. Range 84, left at 10:39. 54 miles to go per Google Maps.
- Drove by Dutch Flat, fuel 23/32, range 62, ODO 781, 54 degrees outside - hot! 10:53 PM.
- Drove by Nyack, fuel 17/32, range 38, ODO 791.
- Drove by Kingvale, fuel 3/8, range 30, ODO 805.
- At Donner summit fuel 1/4, range 17, ODO 812, 40 degrees out.
- At Truckee turnoff exit 184, fuel 1/4, range 30, ODO 818, 41 degrees out.
Reached Tahoe Donner destination with fuel 3/16, range 22, ODO 823. Plugged in to 120V; 27 hours estimated charge time.