With the MS's regen, if you have charge enough to make it up, you'll have no problem making it down!
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With the MS's regen, if you have charge enough to make it up, you'll have no problem making it down!
Treeva's husband, Chris, here -
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I also might be able to improve on things by getting the folks at Maine Solar Power, Massachusetts, New Hampshire Solar | ReVision Energy to help out for the publicity. I'm developing a relationship with them after parking the Model S at their Portland charge point.
Chris
Treeva's husband, Chris, here -
We just posted our availability to the WhenIsGood. So far it looks like Aug 3rd is winning. We're pretty interested in attending and can help out with planning.
I can start calling KOAs if we're settling on a date. However, I think it might be more effective and fun to coordinate with a prominent hotel/restaurant/tourist stop to use their parking lot for a meetup. ...
Treeva's husband, Chris, here -
I know a generator isn't all that EV sexy but we could use it as a teaching moment when we document only burning a few gallons of fuel to get cars from all over NE up the auto road and back home.
We just posted our availability to the WhenIsGood. So far it looks like Aug 3rd is winning.
We're pretty interested in attending and can help out with planning.
I can start calling KOAs if we're settling on a date. However, I think it might be more effective and fun to coordinate with a prominent hotel/restaurant/tourist stop to use their parking lot for a meetup. Presumably they wouldn't have a couple hundred amps of worth of juice to run out to the cars. So I called around to some equipment rental shops and 60-80kW mobile generator can be had for $250-$350/day. If everyone brings their wall connector we should be able to charge at least 6 cars at 40A simultaneously. So with a couple hours of hanging around we should be able to get everyone up the mountain and probably back to more established EV infrastructure. I can handle the particulars of creating an ad-hoc multi-car charge point. I would probably also yank my HPWC off the wall to put in an 80A option.
I know a generator isn't all that EV sexy but we could use it as a teaching moment when we document only burning a few gallons of fuel to get cars from all over NE up the auto road and back home.
I also might be able to improve on things by getting the folks at Maine Solar Power, Massachusetts, New Hampshire Solar | ReVision Energy to help out for the publicity. I'm developing a relationship with them after parking the Model S at their Portland charge point.
Looks like a fun drive! I drive a LEAF and live in the California mountains where we routinely do 5000' climbs to return home from the Valley. At 32K miles the LEAF is holding up fine. Climbing Mt. Washington in a Tesla should be a piece of cake. :smile: With very, very careful driving, my sense is an 85 kWh 'S' could do it on a full range charge from Boston.
Try to find a hotel/restaurant/tourist stop that is receptive to considering the installation of one or two 70A chargers.
I'm worried about the generator. Noisy and smelly. Will cast our cars in bad light. Is the output regulated enough to work? But I can't think of a better solution.
I'm also worried about the noise. Hate to diminish such a nice quiet EV event with the dull roar of a large diesel generator next to us. I like the idea of inviting solar power vendors, even if they only have a couple kW on display.
The generator will burn slightly more fuel than the same number of gas cars would to go the same distance. But supplementing the generator with power from a solar vendor would be great.
These are all good points regarding the generator. I think we should try to see if we can find an on-grid charging solution as our first priority. ...
Just as an update we have requested August 3 from the Mt. Washington Auto Road. The person that is responsible for the reservations is out of the office until Monday. We will let you know once we hear back from her.
Just as an update we have requested August 3 from the Mt. Washington Auto Road. The person that is responsible for the reservations is out of the office until Monday. We will let you know once we hear back from her.
Maria,
I might tag along, if you still have space. I have a friend in Portsmouth, and I'm going to install a 6-50 at his house, so I should be able to top off in both directions, possibly. The auto road is 177 miles each way from my house. If I don't go, I know "Dolphin Grey" will be represented . Hope that rear footwell all weather matt is working out, thanks for coming down to pick it up.
Mitch