{"id":477,"date":"2023-05-29T03:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T03:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=477"},"modified":"2023-05-29T03:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T03:55:24","slug":"ev-adventure-los-alamos-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"EV Adventure Los Alamos <> Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Above: Charging at Wagon Mound – great spot and nice bike ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I drove our Nissan Leaf (2020, SV Plus) with the Los Alamos band up to Denver for the weekend. I went to the middle school to help pack up\/etc. I was the “scout car” so left the school about 7:30am and drove fast (90 mph-ish.. real drag on batteries). I used “ABRP” (Another Best Route Planner) app to help plan things – it missed the fact that a few of the CHAdeMO plugs were out of order (Pueblo, Walmart..), so I had to “ad-lib” a bit (the slower (J1772) charger in Walsenberg – the new Circle K charger was great!). I used PlugShare quite a bit and had to use a few different apps to actually charge (ElectrifyAmerica, ChargePoint, ChargeWay, SemaConnect, EvGateway, and Circle K Charge). The drive up wasn’t ideal (between charging waits, there was also some crazy traffic – the band got just ahead of me in WagonMound then I got stuck in traffic, so way late getting up there. The band made it just fine. Coming home was much more relaxed – especially Walsenberg to Alamos I drove slower (65-70 mph) and had much better range. Charging at Wagon Mound was nice (good bike ride there) and Alamosa was really pleasant (they were putting in a few more fast chargers – I hope those are up and running soon!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EV was a bit of extra work – we had plenty of parents\/cars, so it wasn’t an issue at all. An Internal Combustion Enging would have been just a little smoother. On the drive home, it wasn’t stressful and was pleasant. Trying to caravan and make time – I’d rather have a non-CHAdeMO, real fast-charging vehicle (the Nissan can’t take more than 50kW charge rate – the new fast chargers are ~6x that speed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trip Log \/ Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fri May 5 from home: 6:51am 99% 242 miles range (17622 odometer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fri May 5 in Santa Fe: 8:38am 79% 177 miles range (17662 odometer)
charging at 30kW -> 12 kW, Whoo’s Run, ATM,
Fri May 5 in Santa Fe: 9:01am 91%, 208 miles range (17662 odometer)
$2.40 total for this charge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(drove pretty fast – 90 mph..) electrify America
Fri May 5 in Wagonmound 10:22am 18%, 37 miles range (17768 odometer)
43kW charging,
11:09 77%
11:31 94%, $19.63 ($18.24+$1.39 tax) for 38.2870 kWhr in 65 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:54 – Walmart Trinidad CHAdeMO is broken<\/p>\n\n\n\n

slow-ish charger at Walsenberg (J1772) $4.47 EV Trail
1:31pm 20%, 41 miles range (odometer 17892)
2:01pm 41%, 86 miles range (odometer 17892)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Circle K – Colorado City (Free! New chargers)
Something Strange is Afoot..<\/em>
2:23pm 25%, 49 miles range (odometer 17915)
3:09pm 60%, 118 miles range (odometer 17915)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bad traffic – car on fire in other lane, \u2026
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Phil Long EVOutlet, Colorado Springs (free – their app wasn’t working, awesome sales folks rescued me) – only EVs! They tried to get me into the PHEV Jeep. I told them I’d go test drive it will the Leaf charged… \ud83d\ude09 (no luck.)
4:52pm 19%, 38 miles range (odometer 17980)
6:16pm 78%, 155 miles range (odometer 17980)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado Springs, Denver Traffic – driving 60mph or less..
At the Walgreens right by the band concerts – J1772 SemaConnect
7:39pm 38%, 101 miles range (odometer 18061)
8:00pm 42%, 109 miles range (odometer 18061) – had to run check for accompaniest to other school!
8:42pm 36%, 92 miles range (odometer 18072)
10:30pm 58%, 145 miles range<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sat, May 6
Free Charger at Colorado Dept of Environment and Health – LOVE IT! Thank you!!
charging at 27.7 kW (free charge and bike ride down Cherry Creek!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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8:39pm 49%, 126 miles range (odometer 18089)
9:23pm 85%, 224 miles range (odometer 18089)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sun, May 7
6:38am, 85%
7:26am, 97%, 252 miles range (odometer 18092)
Finish the charging at CO Enviro\/Health Free charger and more Cherry Creek bike ride<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walmart, Pueblo electrify America – broken!
would start charging and stop immediately
7-11 Pueblo, 50kW charging!
12:26 24%, 57 miles range (odometer 18212)
Aven & I walked to lunch
1:31pm 97%, 203 miles range (odometer 18212), added 37.05 kWh, $15.96<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:15pm 64%, 113 miles range
charging at Walsenberg (slow charger, J177) (EV Trail) super glad it is here!! Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2:30pm 75%, 132 mile range $2.27 for charge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Alamosa (HION network)
3:54pm 23%, 50 miles range
27.3 kW charging, $32.69, 37.06 kWh (almost $1\/kWh?!?!)
Aven & I checked out Visitor’s Center, called family, walked around, got lunch
5:39pm 96%, 209 mile range <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home!
8:40pm 30%, 73 miles range (odometer 18470 miles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drive cost $78 dollars in charging total, a little over 800 miles total<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above: Charging at Wagon Mound – great spot and nice bike ride. I drove our Nissan Leaf (2020, SV Plus) with the Los Alamos band up to Denver for the weekend. I went to the middle school to help pack up\/etc. I was the “scout car” so left the school about 7:30am and drove fast … Continue reading EV Adventure Los Alamos <> Denver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}