After 50 days with no garage, we finally have it back, after our new and very sexy looking sectional door was finally installed yesterday.
This was an interesting experiment to go through, given a growing number of people need to solely rely on public charging, to find out what it’s like. As promised I have some stats:
Tesla
So you can see why I let my wife have the Tesla
. Her routine would have been impossible in the LEAF, it would have required charging every single day (no workplace charging where she is) and been massively inconvenient.
For us, the key takeaway was that relying exclusively on public charging was not too inconvenient once we found charging options that dovetailed well with our existing routines. For my wife, it was charging while shopping, hence DCFCs at shopping centres were the winner. For me, it was being able to use workplace AC charging.
So it was “fun” while it lasted, but it is very nice to be able to charge at home again!
This was an interesting experiment to go through, given a growing number of people need to solely rely on public charging, to find out what it’s like. As promised I have some stats:
Tesla
- 14 public charges over the 50 days
- 9 x Evie
- 3 x Supercharges
- 2 x BP Pulse
- Total cost $286 for 502 kWh
- Distance covered 3200 km so about 9c/km.
- So even exclusively on public charging, running the Tesla still cost about half what it would cost to run a comparably sized ICE vehicle per km.
- 2 public and 6 private charges over the 50 days
- both public charges at Evie sites
- the free AC charges were at my workplace, once I had my Type 2 to Type 1 adaptor
- Total cost $8 for 55 kWh
- Distance covered 390 km so about 2c/km thanks to all the free charges
So you can see why I let my wife have the Tesla
. Her routine would have been impossible in the LEAF, it would have required charging every single day (no workplace charging where she is) and been massively inconvenient.For us, the key takeaway was that relying exclusively on public charging was not too inconvenient once we found charging options that dovetailed well with our existing routines. For my wife, it was charging while shopping, hence DCFCs at shopping centres were the winner. For me, it was being able to use workplace AC charging.
So it was “fun” while it lasted, but it is very nice to be able to charge at home again!
