| 2014-07-22 |
14.1 |
0.107 |
|
131.78 |
"All entries for this vehicle are:
Electricity consumption FROM THE WALL (this includes the energy lost during the charging process).
and
miles traveled as reported on Odometer." |
| 2014-07-23 |
9.2 |
0.073 |
|
126.03 |
"" |
| 2014-07-24 |
11 |
0.083 |
|
132.53 |
"" |
| 2014-07-25 |
8.7 |
0.068 |
|
127.94 |
"1st Test: Li-Ion Pack from Motorcycle - (Friday Night test after getting home from work)." |
| 2014-07-25 |
16.4 |
0.117 |
|
140.17 |
"Friday Drive Home from Work (Lead Acid)." |
| 2014-07-25 |
10.1 |
0.077 |
|
131.17 |
"Friday Morning Drive to Work from State Park (Lead Acid)." |
| 2014-07-26 |
6.5 |
0.049 |
|
132.65 |
"2nd Test: With Li-Ion Battery Pack from Motorcycle." |
| 2014-07-27 |
6.6 |
0.052 |
|
126.92 |
"Back to Lead Acid Only." |
| 2014-07-28 |
7.6 |
0.06 |
|
126.67 |
"" |
| 2014-07-29 |
8 |
0.07 |
|
114.29 |
"1/4 Mile Drag = 26 seconds, 50mph
LAST ENTRY WITH LEAD ACID BATTERIES!!!" |
| 2015-10-28 |
18 |
0.13 |
|
138.46 |
"LITHIUM!!!
LITHIUM!!!
LITHIUM!!!
----FIRST ENTRY WITH LITHIUM MAGANESE OXIDE BATTERIES Car has 3,139 total miles on it! ""New car"" that's 25 years old.
kWh used is measured with Kill-A-Watt brand meters.
After sitting around for a year waiting for some decent batteries.
1. Car now has portion of Chevy Volt pack installed.
2. Has full grill block installed
Note: Top speed with grill block installed is 66mph.
For details on the Chevy Volt Battery conversion see
http://www.schultzengineering.us/delta-11-12.htm
This was the commute to work in West Olive and back in light rain and 50 deg. F. Target top speed = 45mph." |
| 2015-11-02 |
23.3 |
0.174 |
|
133.91 |
"WITH 3rd Battery Module Installed:
To Spring Lake Aquatic Center and back. 45 mph mostly, but 55mph for a few miles where traffic was busy. This is energy from the wall as measured with kill-a-watt meters.
Observe that it takes
8,000 Watts to cruise at 45mph
12,000 Watts to cruise at 55mph
10,000 Watts to cruise at 55mph when drafting on car" |
| 2015-11-03 |
39.3 |
0.269 |
|
146.1 |
"RANGE TEST:
To Grand Haven Home Depot, Advance Auto Parts, Autozone, Meijers (pickup car parts and grocery cart of groceries) and back home. 27 miles at 45-55mph
+ To Riverside park and back home 12 miles @ 30-45 mph
At 100.1 Volts end of drive.
Observed it takes 6,000 Watts to cruise at 40mph." |
| 2015-11-04 |
23.4 |
0.193 |
|
121.24 |
"RANGE TEST: Can I drive 55 Everywhere and still make it home?
To SLAC and back driving 55 when ever traffic present (18 miles),
But, I couldn't help myself, there was no traffic for a few miles so I slowed down because WHY WASTE ENERGY? So, I drove 45 mph for perhaps 5 miles of the trip." |
| 2015-11-04 |
22.3 |
0.167 |
|
133.53 |
"Drive Nick to G.H. SOS office to get his new Moped License. Drive 55 with traffic, 45 without.
It was very warm temperature wise (65 degrees), noticed that cruising at 55mph was only taking 10,000 Watts verses 12,000 watts I've been seeing when temperature is 40-45 degrees." |
| 2015-11-05 |
36.2 |
0.262 |
|
138.17 |
"Drive to Jacks for Work, Drive to GH the Lakeshore route, Dinner with Maggie at Taco Bell, Meijers to pick up power strips, GHHS for teacher conferences and home. Nice practical trip. at 100.7 Volts end of drive.
Normal driving technique: drive 45mph without traffic, 55mph when traffic behind.
NOTE: Since I knew I was going to run errands on way home from work, I should have and could have been fully charged before leaving work-site - but, I wanted to see what is possible without charging at work-site." |
| 2015-11-06 |
43.4 |
0.367 |
|
118.26 |
"Run errands in Holland, (Menards, Aquatic Center, GBS, B&N, Meijers, etc.) Charge at 3 different chargepoint stations during stops (6.05 kWh). 45mph max speed mostly. Only had 2 chargers with me during trip, if had 4 chargers with, could have been fully charged after each stop. As it is, I arrived home with 106.2 volts remaining (about 40% charge left).
Errand Range = INFINITE (when I plug in at each stop)!" |
| 2015-11-09 |
35.9 |
0.264 |
|
135.98 |
"Commute to work and back in West Olive (18 miles), Take Nick to Boy Scouts and Back in Allendale." |
| 2015-11-23 |
34.8 |
0.282 |
|
123.4 |
"Includes interior heat and battery heaters." |
| 2015-11-26 |
23.4 |
0.191 |
|
122.51 |
"" |
| 2015-11-28 |
30.5 |
0.246 |
|
123.98 |
"Includes running new 1600W interior heater, and battery heaters. 3,927 total miles on car so far." |
| 2015-11-29 |
32.6 |
0.243 |
|
134.16 |
"" |
| 2015-11-30 |
63.4 |
0.472 |
|
134.32 |
"Jacks, Downtown GR for meeting at GVSU School of Business with Sustainability Class. Recharge at Chargepoint in parking ramp. Did not run heat except for 10 miles in the morning. Turned over 4,000 miles on Odometer during ride." |
| 2015-12-05 |
30.7 |
0.277 |
|
110.83 |
"Followed Ben to SLAC - driving to impress son in Gas powered car - look what it did to my MPGe! Worst ever." |
| 2015-12-13 |
30.4 |
0.237 |
|
128.27 |
"First day with electric vacuum pump for brake assist installed and working.
It's REALLY nice to have good brakes! It's luxurious to only press lightly on the brake pedal with my toe and stop quickly! Before I had to stomp on the brake pedal and was barely stopping in time on occasions in traffic.
4,409 on Odometer." |
| 2015-12-18 |
30.2 |
0.267 |
|
113.11 |
"" |
| 2015-12-22 |
23.3 |
0.178 |
|
130.9 |
"" |
| 2015-12-22 |
42.5 |
0.36 |
|
118.06 |
"" |
| 2015-12-23 |
18.1 |
0.136 |
|
133.09 |
"To Jacks and Back." |
| 2015-12-23 |
27.2 |
0.267 |
|
101.87 |
"To North End of G.H. and back running errands. All take offs were at maximim speed, and drove speed limit everywhere." |
| 2015-12-26 |
23.4 |
0.203 |
|
115.27 |
"" |
| 2015-12-27 |
23.9 |
0.217 |
|
110.14 |
"Snow finally came on Dec. 28th. I drove the car in very slippery snow on Dec. 28th and it handles great! After Dec. 28th trip - I did not charge it up, and am leaving it discharged at about 50% State of charge (107 volts) while it waits for clear roads - I don't want to ruin my beautiful little electric with the road salt. Also battery heating and running electric heater hurt my effective range. Also, I'm not confident I can have good enough defrosting of windshield on blizzardy days to come..." |
| 2016-02-22 |
19.2 |
0.166 |
|
115.66 |
"First Drive of 2016." |
| 2016-02-23 |
35.1 |
0.273 |
|
128.57 |
"To Standale for a meeting and back home. 37 deg F Ambient temperature. 45-55mph." |
| 2016-02-23 |
29.7 |
0.246 |
|
120.73 |
"Drop off Nick at Drivers training in DT GH, then to SLAC and back home. 45-55mph" |
| 2016-02-29 |
18.1 |
0.172 |
|
105.23 |
"" |
| 2016-02-29 |
21.4 |
0.197 |
|
108.63 |
"" |
| 2016-03-07 |
32.6 |
0.275 |
|
118.55 |
"" |
| 2016-03-08 |
18.2 |
0.147 |
|
123.81 |
"" |
| 2016-03-08 |
46.3 |
0.334 |
|
138.62 |
"Boxing with Nick and back, recharge at GVSU ramp" |
| 2016-03-09 |
18 |
0.145 |
|
124.14 |
"" |
| 2016-03-10 |
18.1 |
0.16 |
|
113.13 |
"" |
| 2016-03-10 |
45.5 |
0.337 |
|
135.01 |
"Boxing with Nick and back, recharge at GVSU ramp" |
| 2016-03-11 |
49 |
0.36 |
|
136.11 |
"Drove on highway to Muskegon to get body color paint at Finish Master. Really pushed it for distance, had to slow down last few miles to make it home. Had some recharging during ride but not enough. Range is 40 miles normal driving per charge." |
| 2016-03-12 |
30 |
0.213 |
|
140.85 |
"" |
| 2016-03-13 |
26 |
0.231 |
|
112.55 |
"to SLAC and back, raining both ways. Water on road, seems to take lots more energy." |
| 2016-03-14 |
18 |
0.159 |
|
113.21 |
"" |
| 2016-03-15 |
18 |
0.151 |
|
119.21 |
"" |
| 2016-03-16 |
37 |
0.32 |
|
115.63 |
"Jacks via SLAC and home. Rain on road." |
| 2016-03-17 |
20 |
0.18 |
|
111.11 |
"" |
| 2016-03-18 |
18 |
0.143 |
|
125.87 |
"To Jacks and back, cruising at 35 part of way back to experiment with low consumption." |
| 2016-03-18 |
21 |
0.187 |
|
112.3 |
"First drive after adding Belly pan from front bumper to just past engine bay. Did high speed run and set new max speed of 69mph vs. 66mph previous record. Also, drove to Allendale and back at 45-55mph." |
| 2016-03-19 |
43 |
0.317 |
|
135.65 |
"Drive various speeds for several miles recording Wh/Mile for each leg. To Standale & Indian Trails and back. Stop at GVSU to recharge on way back to make trip." |
| 2016-03-31 |
358 |
3.118 |
|
114.82 |
"+++++++++++++
March 20th-31st
13 trips
Average Distance = 28 miles / trip
++++++++++++=" |
| 2016-04-30 |
895 |
7.537 |
|
118.75 |
"+++++++++++++
April 1 - April 30th
34 trips
Average Distance = 26 miles / trip
++++++++++++=" |
| 2016-05-31 |
788 |
6.599 |
|
119.41 |
"May 1-31, 2016
27 trips, 29 miles Average Trip distance." |
| 2016-06-15 |
379 |
3.347 |
|
113.24 |
"June 1 - June 15, 2016
14 Trips
Average distance per trip: 27 Miles" |
| 2016-10-04 |
144 |
1.228 |
|
117.26 |
"Sept 26 - Oct. 3, 2016
6 Trips
Average distance per trip: 24 Miles
Batteries from D-11 Motorcycle back into the Festiva for the Fall/Winter/Spring" |
| 2016-10-28 |
798 |
6.641 |
|
120.16 |
"October 5 - October 28, 2016
Wh/Mile based on 77% recharge efficiency
798 Miles
23 days, 23 Trips
Average Trip Distance 35 Miles" |
| 2016-12-01 |
948 |
8.736 |
|
108.52 |
"Month of November 2016
23 Trips
41 miles Average distance per trip
Entire month was with Extra batteries installed. Half way through month installed heavier rear springs.
Snow started flying on Dec. 1, parking car until the snow stops for the winter" |
| 2017-02-28 |
410 |
3.772 |
|
108.7 |
"Entire Month of February 2017. First driving day was Feb 16.
12 trips
34 miles average distance" |
| 2017-03-31 |
546 |
5.226 |
|
104.48 |
"Entire Month of March 2017
17 Trips
327 Wh/Mile from the Wall
32 miles average trip distance
Driving Faster now that I know speedo was 5mph off at 55mph. i.e. must now drive 60mph on speedo to travel 55mph. The speedo is correct 0-45mph per GPS, but off by 5mph 55-65mph." |
| 2017-04-30 |
1174 |
10.504 |
|
111.77 |
"Entire Month of April 2017
34 Trips
307 Wh/Mile from the Wall Average
35 Mile Average Distance
81 Miles Max Trip Distance (with one recharge stop)
58 Miles Max distance traveled on one charge (still had range left, but why run to the ragged edge?)
Driving speed of traffic everywhere I go, not driving slower when other cars not around. Installed rebuilt front calipers on 4/18 after trip #19 of month as one front brake was dragging creating lots of waste heat: saw a 10% improvement. Also, warmer weather seems to helps a lot." |
| 2017-05-29 |
685 |
5.448 |
|
125.73 |
"Entire Month of May 2017
15 Trips
46 miles average trip distance
274 Average Wh/Mile from Wall" |
| 2017-09-22 |
33 |
0.221 |
|
149.32 |
"With 4 batteries in it. Getting ready for the cold season, moved external battery pack from electric motorcycle to the car. Now has 13,905 total miles on the car." |
| 2017-10-06 |
49.3 |
0.36 |
|
136.94 |
"Moved the internal battery pack from the D-11 electric motorcycle into the Festiva (took 5 hrs 20 minutes to tear it out and put it into the car vs. just 5 minutes for the external pack) for the cold months and took the Festiva for a shakedown ride to Wyoming Costco and back.
Had 102.4V on the gage left at end of drive (15-20% range left). So range is somewhere between 50-60 miles per charge. 14,481 Miles on Odometer." |
| 2017-10-09 |
130 |
0.944 |
|
137.71 |
"Allendale, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids (Tack) - two days of errand running." |
| 2017-10-13 |
61 |
0.41 |
|
148.78 |
"61 miles on one charge. Wyoming Costco, then Vietnamese Resturaunt on 28th Street in Grand Rapids and then home. At 100.7 Volts at end of trip." |
| 2017-10-13 |
23 |
0.196 |
|
117.35 |
"High Speed run to SLAC and Back. Max speed 65+ on M231 both ways." |
| 2017-10-14 |
102 |
0.7 |
|
145.71 |
"Drive to South Haven and Back for MSEF Meeting. Stop in Holland to charge going both ways and top off a bit in South Haven. Rain the entire way there and back, running headlights and defroster fan." |
| 2017-12-05 |
277.2 |
2.317 |
|
119.64 |
"Nov. 25-Dec. 5 Normal commuting" |
| 2018-05-27 |
483 |
3.834 |
|
125.98 |
"May 2 to May 27 General errands and commuting.
This is electric consumption from the Wall / Miles Traveled.
Beating the socks off our 2015 Nissan Leaf! Pretty good for a 28 year old car." |
| 2018-06-21 |
336 |
2.472 |
|
135.92 |
"June 7 to June 21 - Typical commuting, removed grill block due to excessive heat on 6/18 to keep motor and controller cooler. 85% charging efficiency." |
| 2018-06-28 |
114 |
0.866 |
|
131.64 |
"General commuting without grill block in place." |
| 2018-07-02 |
45 |
0.323 |
|
139.32 |
"" |
| 2018-07-12 |
177 |
1.525 |
|
116.07 |
"Mileage compensated 92%, Recharge Eff. 80%" |
| 2018-07-24 |
247 |
2.033 |
|
121.5 |
"Odometer compensated 92%, Recharge eff. 80%" |