Willie, Both Santa Cruz and San Francisco are close to sea level, the road that Lawrence took is up the mountain and down the other side. Summit Road (as the name suggests) is the highest point in the route, it goes down on both sides although on the Silicon Valley side you still have a good distance of Freeway before reaching San Francisco. Here is location of the highest point in the route: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Summit+Rd+%26+Santa+Cruz+Hwy,+Los+Gato s+CA
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Willie2 via EV Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 10:01 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Driving a Leaf from San Francisco to Santa Cruz and back. On 06/16/2016 11:52 AM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > I work as a musician as some of you know and I am part of the Freeway Philharmonic. I have to play a choral concert in Santa Cruz this month. I did my two ball routine which gives me on average 5miles per kw. By the time I hit the summit of the Santa Cruz mountain I was down to 20 miles and 4 to 5 bars. When I got to Santa Cruz by coasting and using Eco drive and drive as braking I was up to 43 miles and 4 bars. When driving home I was at 2 bars and 17 miles. I account for the difference: driving home at night, against the wind & it was colder. But I accomplished a drive which I was told was impossible on one charge in either direction because of the mountain. Myth busted. Lawrence Rhodes > Congrats. Lawrence! For those of us not familiar with California, more route details would be interesting. It is not so much the total up and down on a route but the difference in elevation between start and end of trip. And, of course, the total road distance. Can you provide those two pieces of data? _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
