timbop
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After a 4 day 1300 mile road trip from NJ to Port Canaveral via Atlanta, I figured I would share some of my results on ABRP accuracy and Electrify America reliability. It won't be a long report as we're about to set sail, but in brief:
ABRP: after changing the "base" mi/kwh to 3.4 and setting the speed limits to 1.07x speed limit with a 75mph max (I wasn't interested in adding speeding tickets to the expenses) I'd have to give ABRP a B+. I probably could have tweaked the settings some more to get closer to actual kwh usage and charge time (I set the overhead for charging to 1 minute) it was within a few percent. Here's a quick excerpt on estmated vs actual for the first part of the trip:
As for the performance of EA, we did have a few of locations where I had to move, but those were in line with expectations after looking at plugshare. The great news is that I always got a charge, and P&C worked flawlessly. At 2 troubled locations (charlotte and gainseville FL) I ran into technicians working on the units and they confirmed how temperamental those locations are. I had worked in lots of alternatives if I didn't get a charge, but never had to use them. We also tended to start chatting with other EV owners or we were eating so ended up going over the "target" charge several times. Overall I would give EA a C+ since we always got a charge, but the number of "first try flawless" charges was in the 70% range, and we never left a location without reaching our target charge and the charge rates were exactly what they should have been. I did post in plugshare for every EA location we hit along the I-95/I-85/I-75 corridor from NJ to Atlanta via durham NC and finally down to Orlando.
Questions will have to wait until I get back from sea, assuming the Mrs doesn't throw me overboard
ABRP: after changing the "base" mi/kwh to 3.4 and setting the speed limits to 1.07x speed limit with a 75mph max (I wasn't interested in adding speeding tickets to the expenses) I'd have to give ABRP a B+. I probably could have tweaked the settings some more to get closer to actual kwh usage and charge time (I set the overhead for charging to 1 minute) it was within a few percent. Here's a quick excerpt on estmated vs actual for the first part of the trip:
As for the performance of EA, we did have a few of locations where I had to move, but those were in line with expectations after looking at plugshare. The great news is that I always got a charge, and P&C worked flawlessly. At 2 troubled locations (charlotte and gainseville FL) I ran into technicians working on the units and they confirmed how temperamental those locations are. I had worked in lots of alternatives if I didn't get a charge, but never had to use them. We also tended to start chatting with other EV owners or we were eating so ended up going over the "target" charge several times. Overall I would give EA a C+ since we always got a charge, but the number of "first try flawless" charges was in the 70% range, and we never left a location without reaching our target charge and the charge rates were exactly what they should have been. I did post in plugshare for every EA location we hit along the I-95/I-85/I-75 corridor from NJ to Atlanta via durham NC and finally down to Orlando.
Questions will have to wait until I get back from sea, assuming the Mrs doesn't throw me overboard
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