My experience with a Toyota Prius the other week was that climbing a hill I could deplete the battery but coming down would not charge it.
So yes. You’ll get into a deficit. > On Nov 30, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/30/19 5:56 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: >> Depends on distance. My car is always charged. So I always have 200 miles >> on the tank. At the end of a full day of driving yes it needs to be >> charged. Local police departments are making Teslas work. Just takes a >> different mindset. No maintenance and a truck good for a half million miles >> with no fuel costs is pretty attractive to me (I charge with solar). > > How much do you lose climbing elevation? Let's say sea level up to 7000' 180 > miles uphill (San Fransisco to Donner Pass). It's a minimal grade for the > first 100 miles then the last 80 is nothing but uphill. Back when Tesla was > first doing their supercharger network thing they put ones in Roseville > (basically the bottom of the hill) and more in Truckee (just past the summit) > so the assumption was that the climb is hard and you would charge before > going up the hill and charge again after the climb. Even just to go to Lake > Tahoe requires crossing an 8000' summit (Reno is around 4200'). > > I'd like to get my wife an electric car, but it seems like normal mountain > driving would eat the battery quickly and then it never gets used except for > flat driving to and from her job or shopping. I'll have 16.3kW DC of solar > panels by the end of February and the way I see it is free "fuel" for the > car. I don't care about saving the planet as much as I am interested in > technology. > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
