EV Articles by Paul Gipe
I’ve pulled together all my articles on EVs and driving electric under one heading–as much for my own benefit as for the benefit of readers.
EV Trip Planners and Trip Summaries with Chevy Bolt
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Paul Gipe
I previously reported on my experience using three different EV trip planners. See Energy Consumption Estimators, Trip Planners, and the Chevy Bolt EV. Since then I’ve been experimenting with A Better Routeplanner (ABRP) and we’ve driven several new routes and revisited several destinations we’d driven to before. Consequently, I’ve updated my trip summaries to include estimates from ABRP and added summaries from the new routes.
Bakersfield to Death Valley and Return–500-mile Round Trip in a Chevy Bolt
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Paul Gipe
We recently completed a round trip from Bakersfield to Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park in our Chevy Bolt. We’ve done this trip many times in a gasoline-powered car, but this was the first time in a battery-electric vehicle (EV).
Bakersfield to Ridgecrest and Return Trip Summary
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Paul Gipe
We’ve now made the trip a few times in both the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Bolt. As with our trips to Kernville, actual consumption has varied for each trip and has varied with the results of four estimators: EV Trip Planner, Green Race, Chevy’s Energy Assist app, and A Better RoutePlanner (ABRP).
Bakersfield to Kernville and Return Trip Summaries
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Paul Gipe
We’ve now done the trip several times and we can look at the variability in consumption relative to estimates by EV Trip Planner, Chevy’s Energy Assist app, and A Better RoutePlanner (ABRP).
Mud, Rocks, EV Capacity, and Flexibility
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Paul Gipe
Our family car–our only car–is a Chevy Bolt. When we want to drive somewhere, we drive the Bolt. The Bolt is a battery-electric vehicle (EV). It runs on electricity. You can’t just pull up to a gas station and “fill it up.”
Tracking Chevy Bolt EV Battery Capacity
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Paul Gipe
Everyone who has a cell phone knows that batteries don’t last forever. For drivers of electric vehicles (EVs), or those considering one, the first question that comes to mind is, “How long will the battery last?” More specifically, how fast will the traction battery degrade and begin to affect the EV’s range.
