Sent this to the Australian EV club regarding a trip a while ago...
Just arrived home from my trip to Qld and back in the I-pace with the family.. was pretty pleasurable and met plenty of friendly and helpful
people on Plugshare. Tip always book into plugshare so people know your charging and so others can see if a charger is free ahead of the trip.
Mostly run into Telsa model 3 drivers so they are a few around now.
2,600km in total with a huge outlay of $21 in charging. Biggest run was Goulburn to Wallsend 340km with 6% remaining. Didn't have to
do any conservation on that run.50kW chargers are good but when you use a 100kW one they seem slow.
Left Gold Coast at 9:30am Friday 31/1/2020 and made it back home at 2:50am 1/2/2020 (1100 km) &4 stops for charging plus a short one at Byron Bay.
Pretty easily run but cut it a bit fine with top up at Mittagong to 56%.Lucky it was downhill for the last 5km as I backed into the garage and range went to 0km.
Learnt that when it says you have 9% to finish the trip... panic and conserve a little. I.e. come off my normal endurance cruise speed (+10)!
Here is the charging log.
Just arrived home from my trip to Qld and back in the I-pace with the family.. was pretty pleasurable and met plenty of friendly and helpful
people on Plugshare. Tip always book into plugshare so people know your charging and so others can see if a charger is free ahead of the trip.
Mostly run into Telsa model 3 drivers so they are a few around now.
2,600km in total with a huge outlay of $21 in charging. Biggest run was Goulburn to Wallsend 340km with 6% remaining. Didn't have to
do any conservation on that run.50kW chargers are good but when you use a 100kW one they seem slow.
Left Gold Coast at 9:30am Friday 31/1/2020 and made it back home at 2:50am 1/2/2020 (1100 km) &4 stops for charging plus a short one at Byron Bay.
Pretty easily run but cut it a bit fine with top up at Mittagong to 56%.Lucky it was downhill for the last 5km as I backed into the garage and range went to 0km.
Learnt that when it says you have 9% to finish the trip... panic and conserve a little. I.e. come off my normal endurance cruise speed (+10)!
Here is the charging log.
Date | Location | Max Rate | Start % | End % | kWh | Cost | Comment |
24/01/2020 | Goulburn (80km) | 100 kW DC | 31 | 93 | 52.0 | $ 21.80 | Start battery state = 52% |
24/01/2020 | Wallsend (340km) | 50 kW DC | 5 | 83 | 62.0 | ||
24/01/2020 | Port Macquarie (260km) | 50 kW DC | 7 | 13 | 5.1 | Failed error 32 | |
24/01/2020 | Port Macquarie | 50 kW DC | 13 | 37 | 20.0 | Failed error 60 | |
| Day 2 | |||||||
25/01/2020 | Port Macquarie | 50 kW DC | 35 | 95 | 51.7 | ||
25/01/2020 | Grafton (260km) | 50 kW DC | 19 | 81 | 51.1 | ||
25/01/2020 | Bryon Bay town (160km) | 50 kW DC | 39 | 64 | 23.1 | ||
| Day3 | |||||||
27/01/2020 | Gold Coast Airport (90km) | 50 kW DC | 30 | 95 | 54.1 | ||
| Charging at Gold Coast during the stay | |||||||
28/01/2020 | Helensvale | 50 kW DC | 87 | 93 | 10.0 | ||
28/01/2020 | Pacific Fair | 7 kW Type 2 | 69 | 80 | 9.9 | ||
29/01/2020 | Helensvale | 50 kW DC | 52 | 91 | 31.6 | ||
30/01/2020 | Gold Coast Airport | 50 kW DC | 58 | 95 | 31.2 | ||
30/01/2020 | Gold Coast Airport | 7 kW Type 2 | 95 | 100 | 4.2 | ||
| Return trip | |||||||
31/01/2020 9:30am | Byron Bay Hwy (90km) | 50 kW DC | 71 | 95 | 20.1 | ||
31/01/2020 | Grafton (160km) | 50 kW DC | 58 | 95 | 32.0 | ||
31/01/2020 | Port Macquarie (260km) | 50 kW DC | 25 | 93 | 58.1 | ||
31/01/2020 | Wallsend (260km) | 50 kW DC | 26 | 95 | 55.2 | ||
31/01/2020 | Mittagong (255km) | 50 kW DC | 12 | 56 | 34.5 | End battery state = 0% | |
1/02/2020 2:30am | Canberra (180km) charging after arrived | 7 kW Type 2 | 0 | 100 | 84.7 | ||
| Total kW | 690.6 | $ 21.80 | |||||
| Gold Coast to Canberra | Total km | 2610 | |||||
| kWh/100km | 26.5 |
