First road trip since purchasing the Kona

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Just finished a 210 mile drive with the family (2 adults, 2 kids and luggage) from Lakeland/FL to the Fort Lauderdale area. There are no Level 3 stations inbetween.. Arrived at the Level 3 charger with 23% charge remaining (56 miles). 210 miles with 4 people in the car and AC on and some heavy rain on the way and about 266 mile range is not bad.. Charged at Electrify America while having lunch without issues.. $13.50 to charge to 80%
 
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Esprit1st said:
Which rate did you get charged?
Almost sounds like the low tier rate.

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So that works out to about 26 cents/kwh?
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a readout where you could program in your per kWh rate and then get a realtime estimate of what your cost per mile is?!
 
Esprit1st said:
Which rate did you get charged?
Almost sounds like the low tier rate.

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It was a 50kw charger. I intentionally looked for the 50kw charger as I didn't want to pay the $.58 per minute.. There were 150kw and 350kw chargers in the area but I wanted to pay less.
 
sosmerc said:
So that works out to about 26 cents/kwh?
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a readout where you could program in your per kWh rate and then get a realtime estimate of what your cost per mile is?!
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$.21 per minute and $1 session fee
 
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Despite charging on a slower 50kw charger, charging finished faster than I was hoping as I had to interrupt lunch to disconnect the car to avoid idle fees of .40 per minute.
 
BlueKonaEV said:
Despite charging on a slower 50kw charger, charging finished faster than I was hoping as I had to interrupt lunch to disconnect the car to avoid idle fees of .40 per minute.
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I still get confused from the numbers.....energy delivered .02 kWh ?
 
20190810_133043.webp 20190810_132720.webp Day 2 of my trip. After sone local driving, I was down to 69%. Wife had an appointment, so I went to a free Level 2 charger in front of a Park. Took the kids to the playground while car was charging. After 1.5 hours, car was back to 80%. About 5.7kw speed.
Have to get to at least 90% for the trip back home tomorrow..
I could take a route that ia 30 miles longer with a Level 3 along the way.. If I take the shortest route, there are 200 miles without a Level 3 charger and only 4 Level 2 chargers at car dealerships and you never know if they let other brands charge. Later today, we will be at Sawgrass mall which has 4 chargers but they are often occupied.
 
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Another update.. I'm at Sawgrass Mills mall now.. initially, all 4 charging spots were taken.
One Model S which wasn't even plugged in, one Model 3 which was finished charging but didn't move the car as also a Volt and a Clarity who both were finished and hadn't moved their car.. Luckily, I checked back 30 mins later and the Volt had left and I'm charging now while shopping at the mall.. 6 kw speed. Not too bad.. should be close to 95 percent when we leave the mall..
 
BlueKonaEV said:
Another update.. I'm at Sawgrass Mills mall now.. initially, all 4 charging spots were taken.
One Model S which wasn't even plugged in, one Model 3 which was finished charging but didn't move the car as also a Volt and a Clarity who both were finished and hadn't moved their car.. Luckily, I checked back 30 mins later and the Volt had left and I'm charging now while shopping at the mall.. 6 kw speed. Not too bad.. should be close to 95 percent when we leave the mall..
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^^^ ? Malls are unfortunately bad for that:mad:
 
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