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How about 20 minutes as you take a break?
Like this ?Someone around here in Vegas is driving around with a trike that has a downsized 57 Chevy rear end on it. I don't know if I like it or not but it sure is unusual and neat. Best of both worlds maybe or worst
If you have a laptop, you can tether your cell. See if you cell has the tether function. I think all the Smartphones do.Thanks for the offer, but we were already on the road. And I don't use (don't know how) my cell phone for internet, I plod along like it's 1995!
Sunday can be one of the worse days in some areas going west to SF. You can see why I am glad to be out of the area I was born and raised in. But the LA area is even worse. The last time I drove to LA, it took a full day to drive out of it.Correct, traffic sucks, even on a Sunday! 15 minute standstill south of Gilroy, FOR NO REASON! And another 45 minutes lost after San Jose!
I would have taken 58 to 99 and and 99 to 5 through Wasco on 46, and 152 to Hwy 101, 280 or 380 to SF. Still won't be all that good in some parts. You don't want to be on 101 when you get very close to SF.
I don't even own one!I'd ask to borrow a bike trailer, but have no idea when I could get it back to you.
Too much to even think about remembering.Now that I have more time (now in Auburn, no longer rushing to leave Reno) I will go over some other points.
In most cases, it is best to not start at 100% SOC (State of Charge). The charge rate MUST slow down a lot near the top. Same is true at the very bottom of the SOC. Charge to 100% when it is needed for extra range and occasionally at other times for the best cell balancing.
But at least the 100% is at the bottom of the hill, but is it really 100 SOC? Or is that just an indication of where they want it?
Charging more times is faster than charging less times!. ????
Less time will be spent recharging when at 35 % SOC and stopping the charge at 80% SOC. IOW, charge twice for ten minutes each instead of one time for more than 35 minutes to get the exact same miles added at the same type of charger.
The same happens with regen.
Regen power is VERY high in the midrange of the battery. Very low on each end. 80% SOC is too much for the top of the hill. They should try for 50% SOC on top of the hill and less than 80% SOC at the bottom.
But perhaps it indicates 100% SOC at that true 60%. That is an unknown, as we didn't design it. No doubt a lot of this stuff was thought about in the design.
But starting at real 100% SOC is a big waste of energy. You never want to be up there, except then you expect to discharge to below 10% at the end of the trip as you need the full possible range. In fact, regen turns completely off or to almost nothing in EVs when getting close to 100% SOC. The exception is for occasional cell balancing, once in a great while let it charge to full. And then use some of it so it doesn't stay at full too long.
Charging near full very inefficient. If the BMS (Battery Management System which is built into EV batteries) would let it really charge at the full rate near 100% SOC , the battery could catch fire if not explode.
My Tesla gives me a warning when charged to full as soon as I drive "Warning: REGEN temporality suspended".
My Energica says "Warning, no regen!" Get down to 95% and you get SOME regen. Full regen a few miles later, perhaps at 90%.
No regen means the car / bike will coast a lot better, and good coasting is NOT what EV owners expect. It means I will have to use the brake where I normally would not even need to touch it.
Look at the specs of charge times on most EVs. They rate them (let me check a manual here for a real number): "DC Fast Charge, 0-85% SOC in 20 minutes". That is from My Energica motorcycle manual. Now you know why they are rated in that way. They don't want to mention that very slow charge rate above 85% SOC. And it has started to slow down a little at perhaps 75% SOC. Then it's a progressive slowdown from there.
And to add a little more confusion to this issue, no EV battery will be 100% fully charged at 100 SOC. Nor will it be fully discharged at BELOW Zero SOC (there is a reserve) when the EV will no longer run (other than military Evs). EVs made for the military have a switch to use that very last 10 or 15% percent of the real charge (well below the 0 SOC indicated) that will most likely permanently ruin the very expensive battery but could save a life.
There are two specs for KWH on a battery. And some cheating goes on because of this. Zero Motorcycle cheats. Their 14.4 KWH battery can never be charged to that 14.4KWH. The BMS will not allow that very expensive battery to be ruined! It will charge to about 11.6 KWHs according to some battery techs in the electric motorcycle forum.
Energica does not cheat. Their spec reads like this "21.5 kWH max / 18.9 KWH nominal." It will stop being charged when at 18.9 KWH and all of that 18.9 KWH can be used.
73, -Don- AA6GA Auburn, CA
I didn't get a good look, it was red, yea it sure could have been a bosshoss. I didn't get a good look at the engine so I really can't say.
I assume that means you are going back to SF again to pick up the bike. If an over night stop will be helpful in Auburn or Reno (or both) let me know. Or if you need anything on the way there are back, etc.
I used to live in SSF, just north of the airport. Zip 94080. The very base of San Bruno Mountain (the hill you see as you drive north).
