Planning CHAdeMO only trip, Mexico to Canada

[TonyWilliams]

1425 Total Miles

1) San Ysidro, CA

32 miles / 1393 to go

2) My house, San Diego, CA 92128

125 miles / 1268 to go

3) DWP Station, 4255-4299 Arch Dr, Studio City, CA 91604

97 miles / 1171 to go

4) Nissan, 2864-2898 Pacheco Rd, Bakersfield, CA 93313

78 miles / 1093 to go

5) Nissan, 830 S Ben Maddox Way, Visalia, CA 93292

49 miles / 1044 to go

6) Fashion Fair Mall, 675 E Shaw Ave, Fresno, CA 93710

63 miles / 981 to go

7) Applegate Plaza, 1308 Commerce Ave, Atwater, CA 95301

64 miles / 917 to go

8) Nissan, 3247-3349 E Hammer Ln, Stockton, CA 95212

49 miles / 868 to go

9) Nissan, 2804 Auburn Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95821

93 miles / 775 to go

10) Nissan, 575 Manzanita Ave, Chico, CA 95926

118 miles / 657 to go

11) Railroad Park Resort, Little Castle Creek, 100 Railroad Park Rd, Dunsmuir, CA

84 miles / 573 to go

12) Texaco, 2371 Ashland St, Ashland, OR 97520

111 miles / 462 to go

13) Brutke’s Wagon Wheel, 227 NW Garden Valley Blvd, Roseburg, OR 97470

92 miles / 370 to go

14) Pioneer Villa Truck Plaza, 33180 Oregon 228, Halsey, OR 97348

106 miles / 264 to go

15) Country Café, 6370 N 1st Cir, Ridgefield, WA 98642

69 miles / 195 to go

16) Wendy’s, 100-198 W High St, Centralia, WA 98531

83 miles / 112 to go

17) Seattle, WA

112 miles

18) Peace Arch State Park, Blaine, WA

 

[SeattleRav4]

Tony, you need to add the planned travel time.
And a pointer to your previous trip without CHAdeMO.
To show the improvement.

If I ever get mine fixed, I could drive it to northern CA for repairs.

 

[TonyWilliams]

1425 miles divided by 60mph average is 24 hours.

17 charge spots at one hour each = 17 hours.

 

[TonyWilliams]

Massaging the numbers a bit, I'm going to start with a full charge, and won't charge at my destination, so I'll arbitrarily subtract 200 miles of energy not needed to be added enroute.

So, 1225 miles divided by 3 miles per KWH consumption (70-75mph) equals 408kWh added.

Using a composite 40.8kW charge rate means that 10 hours are spent charging with 24 hours traveling at 60mph average.

 

[evdrive]

On the Northern Ca weak link of the trip, is #11 a Chademo stations or an RV park that you will have to stop at for 3 hours and use your Jesla?

11) Railroad Park Resort, Little Castle Creek, 100 Railroad Park Rd, Dunsmuir, CA

 

[n3ckf]

stop #8 on Hammer Lane in Stockton is right down the street from the spot i charge all the time (L2) at Walgreens at 850 WEST Lane (corner of West Lane and Hammer) on the way from Fremont to my house in Volcano. I can meet you there

 

[dstjohn99]

Driving from Santee to Vallejo thsi weekend. Driving the Prius tho cause I'm still looking forward to Chademo. I hope testing is going well and production units will be available soon.

 

[TonyWilliams]

On the Northern Ca weak link of the trip, is #11 a Chademo stations or an RV park that you will have to stop at for 3 hours and use your Jesla?

11) Railroad Park Resort, Little Castle Creek, 100 Railroad Park Rd, Dunsmuir, CA

That's why I said "almost". This site would have to be a JESLA connection.

 

[Michael Bornstein]

Tony:

You can probably skip #6 and #8 as the distance from #5-#7 is 109 miles and from #7-#9 is 108 miles.

If you let me know when you will arrive at #4 I can arrive with a burger or what have you.

That is, if I am not working!

Mike

 

[TonyWilliams]

Tony:

You can probably skip #6 and #8 as the distance from #5-#7 is 109 miles and from #7-#9 is 108 miles.

If you let me know when you will arrive at #4 I can arrive with a burger or what have you.

That is, if I am not working!

Mike

There's a few sayings in aviation:

Don't leave altitude above you.
Don't leave runway behind you.
Dont leave fuel in the truck.
Dont use airspeed you don't have.

For long distance EV driving... Dont leave quick chargers unused. What if the one you're going to is broken?

Also, we don't want to charge above 85% at any one charger unless we have to (to reach the next charger).

 

[dstjohn99]

There's a few sayings in aviation:

Don't leave altitude above you.
Don't leave runway behind you.
Dont leave fuel in the truck.
Dont use airspeed you don't have.

And, you can never have too much altitude or fuel - unless you're on fire.

 

[fromport]

For long distance EV driving... Dont leave quick chargers unused. What if the one you're going to is broken?

definitely a learning curve, and something you have to get used to ;-)
Luckily there are many areas which have a lot of QC'ers.
Start experimenting there ;-)