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Supercharger - Hooksett NH Rest Areas
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Yes, WRJ/West Leb and Burlington make the trip a no-brainer (even in a 60), but I'm wondering how you'd do Hooksett->Montreal and back today.
The sad answer is: you can't...
i stopped in Burlington. I am staying over at the Marriott. They have free level 2 chargers. Will stay overnight and will have a fresh full charge in the morning.
When we have a supercharger in Burlington or around there, then there will be no problems.
The mountains kind of cancel each other as far as energy is concerned. It's scary to see your mileage go down as you go up the montains and then it's nice to see you get a lot of it back when you go down the mountains, so it's almost a wash. I did Concord to burlington today with over 87 miles stiil left on the battery and i was going at 70 mph the whole way.
The other "soon to be" solution will be the CHAdeMO adapter. There is a nice quickcharger in Montpellier that would do the trick. A quick 1-2 hours stop would allow you to complete the trip in one day.
But for now... It's a two day thing.
A lot of people going to Montreal from Boston or vice-versa stop at my house for 80A. I'm about half-way between the two but I don't expect to see anybody once Hooksett goes live. You will probably need more than 2 hrs here so the Montpelier CHAdeMO is better and WRJ will be perfect. The nice thing about Hooksett is you can go from there to Burlington, VT where there are more choices for both HPWCs and CHAdeMO, as well as things to do and places to eat.
OK, that's sort of what I thought. WRJ/West Leb would open up Montreal and round trips to Mad River Glen, so I'd like to see that one next.
Brass Guy
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OK, eating my words now. But you gotta admit it could have gone either way if the transformers are set in Hooksett. Should be any day now!
I sure hope so! We've got to get our son back to Dartmouth College this weekend; if Hookset is live, then we take the Tesla; otherwise, the BMW
ThosEM
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Wow, they really did finish up the year with a strong effort. With Edison and Paramus NJ, W. Hartford, CT, and now Auburn MA, and Hooksett NH coming on strong, it makes it very tempting to head north for an unplanned ski trip!
I'm at southbound now (was at northbound this morning). Still no power. The pedestals are dark, and the meters are blank.
The construction looks done and cleaned up. Transformer and meter are installed on both sides.
The construction looks done and cleaned up. Transformer and meter are installed on both sides.
I was thinking about this post on the way home from Hooksett, and wondering if there may be a similar issue there, ie needing to shut down the HV feeder to the complex to connect the transformer. In that case, it's a little harder to schedule, now that the gas pumps and convenience store are open 24/7. I'd guess they'll do it one night when the liquor store is closed, to minimize the impact.
DNAinaGoodWay
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That's how Tom put it, they had to get several parties to cooperate on the shutdown, and that made it trickier to schedule.
DNAinaGoodWay
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Report on plugshare says northbound side is operational, but it was a disappointed LEAF driver, so needs confirmation.
I sure hope so! We've got to get our son back to Dartmouth College this weekend; if Hookset is live, then we take the Tesla; otherwise, the BMW
I can also confirm they weren't working today (Sat AM). However, if you take Rt 25 to Rt 10 you could almost do the round trip on a single charge. Every time I've driven that route (6 times now) I've beat the ideal (rated) miles by anywhere from 10 to 20% and your car is rated more conservatively than mine. You'd want to plug in somewhere for a little while to be safe, especially because it's winter, but it wouldn't have to be for long. There's more than one 80A charger along the way.
Actually if you do this tomorrow (Sunday) it's supposed to be storming. That would severely impact your range. So don't try it tomorrow, but you might keep it in mind for the future.
Thanks, but we decided on the low-risk, high-emissions option to take the BMW today. With two people and a fair bit of cargo, and impending storms, we decided that was best.
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