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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary
I do realize that LED's won't help very much at all (might get half a mile more at night, or something like that.) but on the other hand, every little improvement eventually adds up, doesn't it?
A boat tail would add miles. Or if I just drove around much slower. The best mileage in a Leaf is done at 12mph! But if I drove much slower than the speed limit I'd become a road hazard. Highway speed limits around here are usually 45, 55 or 65mph. And this is on country two lane highways, so I'd be backing up traffic that couldn't pass.
The only problem with a boat tail would be parking. The same would be true with a trailer. All the EV charging stations that I've seen so far have parking spaces big enough for a regular car, not a school bus.
Another idea that crossed through my mind was to run a wanted as in the paper for places that would let me charge off of 240V between charging stations.
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Hey if you are ever down this way I use NEMA 10-50 receptacles on 60 and 70 amp breakers rated for 50 amps continuous and L14-30 rated for about 25 amps continuous accessible from my front yard for my welder, plasma cutter air compressor.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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