3 months ago
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Hi everyone! I person been an avid scholar of Team BHP for the past 18 months. I americium posted astatine Mumbai, and presently thrust a Nexon EV XZ+(30kWh) which has completed 27 months and much than 20000 km connected the odometer. I had booked the car owed to the subsidy of 2.5 Lakh Rupees offered by Maharashtra authorities connected acquisition of EV, adjacent though I didn't necessitate a car astatine that time. Since the acquisition of the car, I person done a fewer abbreviated trips to Lonavala, Alibaug, Mahabaleshwar, Nashik and Bhandardhara, the longest 1 being a 440km travel successful Monsoon past twelvemonth successful a azygous day. I had contemplated penning down a travelogue galore a times, but owing to laziness, ne'er took an effort to pen down the memories.
A pic from the Bhandardhara Trip past Monsoon
Ever since the car was delivered, I had been eyeing a agelong travel successful the car. As I person a 1.5 years aged son, the plans of a agelong travel person been kept connected clasp keeping his and wife's comfortableness successful mind. As luck would person it, successful June this year, I was deputed connected circuit to Mundra successful Gujarat and it seemed that the agelong travel imagination was yet going to beryllium fulfilled. The readying started and I went done the charging stations enroute via the Plugshare app. I filtered retired the chargers that were disposable connected the main way itself, truthful arsenic to prevention clip and debar immoderate deviations. I had besides ensured that determination were astatine slightest 2 chargers for backup adjacent to the charging stations I was considering, successful lawsuit a charger was not working. I had besides confirmed the availability of the chargers a time earlier the travel connected their respective apps. Initially, I had planned to bash the full travel of 900km successful a azygous day, but aboriginal decided to bash it with a halt successful Ahmedabad since I was going solo.
The last itinerary was to complaint astatine Vapi, past complaint astatine Bharuch, instrumentality the DME to Vadodara and past via NE1 to Ahmedabad. After an overnight enactment and dilatory charge, instrumentality a charging halt astatine Malia and past proceed to Mundra.
So I drove to my successful laws residence and dropped my woman and lad there. Plugged the car for an overnight dilatory charging league and woke up to the car afloat charged to 100%. Wife and Mother-in-law had packed immoderate luncheon for the journey, and aft having meal near from Mumbai astatine astir 8:10 americium successful the greeting connected 17th of June, with Soc astatine 100%.
Took the Western Express Highway to aboriginal articulation the NH48. As it was a vacation connected the juncture of Bakrid, I was fortunate arsenic I didn?t brushwood the dreadful postulation jam adjacent Mira Road/Bhayandar, and I could screen the region of 158 km successful 2 hours and 50 minutes. A large information of the agelong till Maharashtra borderline is being concretized, and owed to that maintaining precocious speeds is not possible. Also, the prime of factual roadworthy being laid is not large and the full spot seemed uneven, adjacent maintaining a velocity of 75 was a daunting task. It was lone aft entering Gujarat, that I was capable to agelong my legs and support decent speeds. The roadworthy aboveground was bully and thrust prime was smooth. However, a batch of trucks meant a batch of overtaking and cruise power was not effective.
Finally reached my archetypal charging stop- Shanti Complex astatine Vapi astatine astir 11 am, covering 157.9 kms with 31% artillery left, astatine an mean depletion of 130 Wh/km and 82 kms of scope left, with AC connected Econ mode astatine 24 degrees throughout. It is located connected the NH48 itself, and has 2 charging guns with a full standing of 60kW from Chargezone. There are a fewer restaurants successful the complex, portion the washroom is conscionable manageable. I had fractional of the packed luncheon arsenic I didn?t privation to worldly excessively much, and aboriginal had a filter java astatine Moti Mahal Deluxe to recharge myselves. In the meanwhile, the car had charged to 91% successful 50 minutes, and I decided to permission for the adjacent stop.
Total units added and clip taken- 16.124 units, 50 minutes.
Total Charging cost- 380 Rupees.
The adjacent charging halt was astatine Hyatt Place, Bharuch. This agelong had a large aboveground again, and I was capable to support bully speeds throughout, but adjacent Surat wherever determination was a batch of motortruck movement. The thrust prime was superb again and I was tempted to interaction triple digits connected a fewer occasions. Covered the region of 175.9 kms successful astir 2.5 hours successful 1 go. The SoC near was 14% with 31 kms of scope left, and the mean depletion was 130 Wh/km till present with AC connected throughout. The Hotel has 2 charging guns from Statiq. After finishing the remaining food, I took a speedy nap of 30 minutes wrong the car itself, reclining the operator spot to the Max and switched connected the AC portion the car was charging. The nonsubjective was to complaint the car to afloat 100% arsenic the adjacent limb was going to beryllium astir 190 km long. However, the car was taking painfully longer to complaint aft 90%, and I had to halt the charging which was stuck eternally astatine 96%.
Total units added and clip taken- 24.461 units, 1 Hour 20 minutes.
Total Charging cost- 534 Rupees.
Charging astatine Hyatt Place, Bharuch
