Nissan Leaf Electric Vehicle long distance Road Trip gone bad - Torque News
With a Nissan Leaf, you better be really careful to make sure you have yourself well prepared. I’ve traveled over 200 miles one way to a destination in my Nissan Leaf to prove that long distance driving is possible over a year and a half ago. The Charging infrastructure is nowhere near what it needs to be. In my trip, I drove the first leg of the journey the 200 miles with two successful charges at CHAdeMo stops on my trip. I got to my destination about 1 hour longer than it took my wife who was driving my Plug In Ford C-Max Energi. The return trip was not so pleasant. The trip to the first CHAdeMo was flawless. We roll up to the first unit that worked fine one week earlier and to our surprise it was not functioning. Lucky for me, I had enough excess reserved to make it to a second CHAdeMo location which I had singled out for backup. Murphy was hiding in the bushes as everything that can go wrong did go wrong on that fateful day. After some frantic calls to fellow EVers (other electric vehicle drivers) we managed to pull into a Level II charger at a Ford Dealer (on a Sunday) with a 5 hour 240v charge remaining. Needless to say, my trip home was LONG. Instead of a 3 hour trip, it turned into an 11 hour trip saga. I came across this video today of two gentleman from England attempting a similar long range trip only to find the EVSE not functioning in multiple locations as well. Source: www.torquenews.com
