Edison (my silver S85) departed Cary, NC this morning at 0620 local time, carrying me, my wife, and about 600 pounds of my stuff. We're headed to Palo Alto, California where I'm starting a new job with a small tech startup. Thus, I have dubbed this the ElectricStartupSuperTrip, and this thread may be the closest that I end up to an actual blog.
The first leg is complete, as I sit in the Panera next to the Glen Allen, VA super charger. We skipped South Hill, and the plan is to get nearly full here and then hop all the way to Hagerstown, bypassing Bethesda and Woodbridge. Because really... who wants to deal with Potomac Mills or Montgomery Mall if you don't absolutely have to?!?!
I've got a windows VPS cloud server running VisibleTesla, so I'm hoping that if the server stays up and reliable that I'll have very good instrumentation and stats from the trip. I'm also closely tracking the accuracy of evtripplanner, which so far has been an absolutely AWESOME tool for this sort of thing. I encourage anyone who uses it to read the story of the kid (well, a kid to me) who has done most of the development and DONATE, because that's how the world should encourage innovative software development.
First leg stats: according to evtripplannner, (https://evtripplanner.com/planner/2-4/?id=4dzo) this should have been 180mi, 66.6kWh, and 370Wh/mi. Our numbers: 185.5mi, 70.1kWh @ 378 Wh/mi. Some of that was a breakfast detour, and some was probably because it's VERY windy today, probably sustained 25-30mph out of the northwest which hurts us some.
Hopefully the next update is in about 3 hours... from Hagerstown. evtripplanner's forecast for the next leg: EV Trip Planner 165mi, 59.7kWh @ 363Wh/mi
The first leg is complete, as I sit in the Panera next to the Glen Allen, VA super charger. We skipped South Hill, and the plan is to get nearly full here and then hop all the way to Hagerstown, bypassing Bethesda and Woodbridge. Because really... who wants to deal with Potomac Mills or Montgomery Mall if you don't absolutely have to?!?!
I've got a windows VPS cloud server running VisibleTesla, so I'm hoping that if the server stays up and reliable that I'll have very good instrumentation and stats from the trip. I'm also closely tracking the accuracy of evtripplanner, which so far has been an absolutely AWESOME tool for this sort of thing. I encourage anyone who uses it to read the story of the kid (well, a kid to me) who has done most of the development and DONATE, because that's how the world should encourage innovative software development.
First leg stats: according to evtripplannner, (https://evtripplanner.com/planner/2-4/?id=4dzo) this should have been 180mi, 66.6kWh, and 370Wh/mi. Our numbers: 185.5mi, 70.1kWh @ 378 Wh/mi. Some of that was a breakfast detour, and some was probably because it's VERY windy today, probably sustained 25-30mph out of the northwest which hurts us some.
Hopefully the next update is in about 3 hours... from Hagerstown. evtripplanner's forecast for the next leg: EV Trip Planner 165mi, 59.7kWh @ 363Wh/mi
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