JD4S
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- Jeff
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- Emerald Coast, FL
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- Taycan 4S
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I've appreciated all of the consistent trip posts on the Forum so thought I'd add my own. This is for those who have to use level 2 chargers for final destinations.
First, we bought our 2020 Taycan 4s (with performance battery + 265/305 R21 tires) mostly for daily driving and while we've had a few little hiccups, the car has ultimately proved to be a great EV for how we live. We live in an area NOT really supported by EA chargers (38 & 66 miles away), nor do our driving habits require a need for this.
However, we want to use it more for longer trips so we took it over to St George Island (FL) for the weekend and everything went smooth. Knowing that we did not have access to EA, we were relying on four (4) J1772s that were in the area that we were staying. I drive in normal mode on "low", the lowest chassis setting, and kept it at that for our 128.3 mile trip. We drove straight through and did not use ACC, but did switch between regen and coast mode.
We arrived at our destination on Friday, found the charger, and used the Greenlots app to initiate the charging session. Even though I had loaded credits into my account, the session wouldn't start. I called Greenlots from the app and after about 2 minutes on hold, got an agent that initiated the session for me. He said something about the location not recognizing my phone/app but it kicked in so we were happy.
About 2 hours into the charge, I received an email saying the session disconnected so I walked out, unplugged from the car, and stuck it back in, hit the "charge now" on the app and it took it to 100% over the next few hours. The charge rate was $.15/kWh+ 6% of total, so we spent a whopping $6.13 to charge. I deliberately selected "direct charge" as we were heading out the next day for sightseeing. We arrived back on Saturday afternoon from the beach and decided not to charge again since we still had 280 miles left on the guess-o-meter and figured we could get home just fine.
So at 100% charge with 340 miles, we did 128.3 averaging 3.8 mi/kWh or 26.3/kWh/100mi, showing a delta of 6.7 miles between actual mileage driven and fuel meter.
Attaching some photos of the trip.
First, we bought our 2020 Taycan 4s (with performance battery + 265/305 R21 tires) mostly for daily driving and while we've had a few little hiccups, the car has ultimately proved to be a great EV for how we live. We live in an area NOT really supported by EA chargers (38 & 66 miles away), nor do our driving habits require a need for this.
However, we want to use it more for longer trips so we took it over to St George Island (FL) for the weekend and everything went smooth. Knowing that we did not have access to EA, we were relying on four (4) J1772s that were in the area that we were staying. I drive in normal mode on "low", the lowest chassis setting, and kept it at that for our 128.3 mile trip. We drove straight through and did not use ACC, but did switch between regen and coast mode.
We arrived at our destination on Friday, found the charger, and used the Greenlots app to initiate the charging session. Even though I had loaded credits into my account, the session wouldn't start. I called Greenlots from the app and after about 2 minutes on hold, got an agent that initiated the session for me. He said something about the location not recognizing my phone/app but it kicked in so we were happy.
About 2 hours into the charge, I received an email saying the session disconnected so I walked out, unplugged from the car, and stuck it back in, hit the "charge now" on the app and it took it to 100% over the next few hours. The charge rate was $.15/kWh+ 6% of total, so we spent a whopping $6.13 to charge. I deliberately selected "direct charge" as we were heading out the next day for sightseeing. We arrived back on Saturday afternoon from the beach and decided not to charge again since we still had 280 miles left on the guess-o-meter and figured we could get home just fine.
So at 100% charge with 340 miles, we did 128.3 averaging 3.8 mi/kWh or 26.3/kWh/100mi, showing a delta of 6.7 miles between actual mileage driven and fuel meter.