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Hi to all,
Came across your forum the day after purchasing our first EV - a 2011 Nissan Leaf. We bought the car from the Nissan dealer in York which, when travelling up in our old car, showed it was 56 miles from our home address and which was nearly all dual carriageway.
All went well with the handover etc at lunchtime and so, before heading back south to North Notts, we stopped in York for lunch. At this point our range was showing 72 miles - Fine we thought!
However getting in the the car after lunch things rapidly turned from excitement to the dreaded range anxiety. It was now dark and raining so lights and windscreen wipers on. Our first problem was the dealer had valeted the interior of the car using a wet vac system. Two adults and three children soon got the car VERY steamy inside. The screen soon became dangerously obscured so the windscreen fan had to be turned on. That triggered the navigation warning that we would not have enough range in the battery to get to our destination. Into Eco mode.
As we had not received any of the RFID cards that I had ordered yet from the various EV charging point providers I thought it best to leave the major dual carriageway route and go for the shortest option, which would hopefully provide some stop / start / braking to help the battery a little. The fan went off and we headed cross country through the villages. 51 miles to go with 56 miles range. Time to slow right down.
The moisture retained in the car after the valet was causing a real problem but I still couldn't chance putting the windscreen fan on as I knew it would mean we wouldn't get home. Fortunately, my wife had a couple of tissues..
Our backroad route eventually brought us back onto the A1. Now it was very dark and very wet. If I had driven too slow I would have been a danger to other vehicles so took the speed up to 50mph and tried to find a lorry I could slipstream. No such luck on a Saturday evening.
21 miles to go and 21 miles on the range did not look good. Our only option was to divert to the in-laws and grab some electricity to give us a few miles more on the range. We diverted and plugged in for some 40 mins giving us on extra 5 miles on the phone app I had installed.
We lightened the car by leaving 2 children with their Grandparents(!) and set off for home. Took the shortest route which included some single track roads but eventually arrived home with a few miles to spare.
That was last night. The car was put on charge and as I write now has 100% showing on the phone app. I've turned on the climate too the help dry out the car so we'll see what our day 2 experiences are. Good ones we hope!
Came across your forum the day after purchasing our first EV - a 2011 Nissan Leaf. We bought the car from the Nissan dealer in York which, when travelling up in our old car, showed it was 56 miles from our home address and which was nearly all dual carriageway.
All went well with the handover etc at lunchtime and so, before heading back south to North Notts, we stopped in York for lunch. At this point our range was showing 72 miles - Fine we thought!
However getting in the the car after lunch things rapidly turned from excitement to the dreaded range anxiety. It was now dark and raining so lights and windscreen wipers on. Our first problem was the dealer had valeted the interior of the car using a wet vac system. Two adults and three children soon got the car VERY steamy inside. The screen soon became dangerously obscured so the windscreen fan had to be turned on. That triggered the navigation warning that we would not have enough range in the battery to get to our destination. Into Eco mode.
As we had not received any of the RFID cards that I had ordered yet from the various EV charging point providers I thought it best to leave the major dual carriageway route and go for the shortest option, which would hopefully provide some stop / start / braking to help the battery a little. The fan went off and we headed cross country through the villages. 51 miles to go with 56 miles range. Time to slow right down.
The moisture retained in the car after the valet was causing a real problem but I still couldn't chance putting the windscreen fan on as I knew it would mean we wouldn't get home. Fortunately, my wife had a couple of tissues..
Our backroad route eventually brought us back onto the A1. Now it was very dark and very wet. If I had driven too slow I would have been a danger to other vehicles so took the speed up to 50mph and tried to find a lorry I could slipstream. No such luck on a Saturday evening.
21 miles to go and 21 miles on the range did not look good. Our only option was to divert to the in-laws and grab some electricity to give us a few miles more on the range. We diverted and plugged in for some 40 mins giving us on extra 5 miles on the phone app I had installed.
We lightened the car by leaving 2 children with their Grandparents(!) and set off for home. Took the shortest route which included some single track roads but eventually arrived home with a few miles to spare.
That was last night. The car was put on charge and as I write now has 100% showing on the phone app. I've turned on the climate too the help dry out the car so we'll see what our day 2 experiences are. Good ones we hope!