Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Massachusetts electric vehicle advisor?

[Joel Bartlett (altairecovillage]

Fred,

Comments on your blog:
1) you're supposed to set the max charge to 80% to prolong the life of the
battery.  The slowing down above 80% you observed is expensive and
intentional.
2) we average 25 miles/hour on our home Level 2 charger.  Level 1 gets only
5 miles/hr.  Level 1 would work in communities where short distances are
involved the next day.
3) We have six app's for chargers, and you can filter out Tesla, etc.
Shell Recharge is new; EVgo - easy to set up a credit card account;
ChargePoint came with the car and is also an account; Electrify America
(VW) is very convenient; Blink (Ford) we can't seem to work; there is one
more (besides PlugShare) somewhat limited to the South -

More later,
Yours, Joel

On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 5:38 PM Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> On 17 May 2023 I wrote:
>
> >Car sharing seems like a natural feature for cohousing communities.
> >There is an ongoing discuission of how to do car sharing in cohousing.
> >The mailing list is at https://groups.google.com/g/coho-carshare
> >There are approximately monthly Zoom presentations / discussions (get
> >details via the mailing list.
> >
> >Even better car sharing is a sharing all electric cars (BEV Battery
> >electric vehicle), bicycles and rides. Changing from a private gas car
> >(ICE - Internal combustion engine ) vehicle to sharing electric cars,
> >bicycles and rides as well as using public transportation takes some
> >learning and organizing but the benefits are large.
> >
> >We ( Becca Brackett of Cedar Cohousing and I) would like to get some
> >experience with BEV's so we plan to rent a Nissan Leaf in Providence
> >for a round trip to Portland Maine in June. Tho I am sure we can
> >figure out how to do this, advice from a cohousing person with BEV
> >experience would be nice.
> >
> >Anyone willing out there?
>
> Thanks to the folks who responded.
>
> Our trip went well. I wrote about it at
> http://fholson.cohousing.org/blog/#x75
>
> We visited three cohousing communities on the trip
> Baystate Commons CoHousing - Malden MA
> Sawyer Hill EcoVillage:
>  Camelot Cohousing and Mosaic Commons, in Berlin, MA
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> Fred
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> Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
>      Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
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