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"EV buyers today are accustomed to looking at new vehicles with at least 300 km
and sometimes as much as 600 km of range.
When I talk to them, new owners are often surprised to learn that the second EV
in my household is a 2012 Nissan LEAF with a maximum range of about 110 km. I
explain that this car has never left Canberra (until now) and always charged at
a rate of 3.6 kW in my garage. For what it’s used for, it’s brilliant. We
should have more EVs like it available today.
Late last year, the NRMA installed a pair of DC fast chargers in Braidwood, a
town halfway between Canberra and Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast.
This fact, combined with Bjorn Nyland’s recent Youtube videos of him doing 500
km trips in older, short range EVs, got me thinking about the possibility of
driving my LEAF to the coast. The NRMA chargers at Braidwood suddenly made this
a possibility. So, last weekend, my son and I tried it!
I had no intention of being the EV stranded on the side of the road, snapped by
the anti-EV brigade, so I carefully prepared for the trip with
A Better Route
Planner (ABRP). The ABRP told me I could travel in both directions if I
charged at Canberra Airport on the eastern edge of Canberra (a very short
top-up) and Braidwood."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
