Thanks for visiting our blog. This is where we plan to post our adventure into the world of Plug-in Vehicles. So as we go through this journey we'll post information along the way here. Hopefully our information will be of benefit to others that are interested in EVs as we are. Thanks for visiting our blog.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Charging with Solar!
We are making power! Progress Energy installed the net meter this past week and Southern Energy did the final check and turned on the breakers Friday afternoon.
Today (Saturday) I checked around noon and we were making 4.45 kW with a total of 12.5 kWh produced so far today! So excited! All 24 panels are showing online.
If the car wasn't charging right now I'd go take a picture of the meter feeding power to the grid...but right now the car charging is sucking up all our power generated, which that's ok because that's kind of like making your own gas for a combustion engine car ;-)
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sad day.....
It was a sad day yesterday, even though we had some mechanical issues during the 7 1/2 months we had "lil red" we still enjoyed having it and will miss it, we had to turn it in yesterday and it was sad.
We were 40 miles shy of 10k miles, 9960 miles when we dropped it off.
So here are the final screen shots from the dash with the stats:
May be hard to see but in 9960 miles of driving, we used 54.4 gallons of gas, so about 183 miles per gallon.
We look forward to adventures in the Electric world with the new volt, but we will still miss "lil red".
We were 40 miles shy of 10k miles, 9960 miles when we dropped it off.
So here are the final screen shots from the dash with the stats:
May be hard to see but in 9960 miles of driving, we used 54.4 gallons of gas, so about 183 miles per gallon.
The final stats screen, lifetime of 184 mpg down in the right hand corner.
We look forward to adventures in the Electric world with the new volt, but we will still miss "lil red".
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