Good information, thank you gentlemen.
I have always been they type to do more doing then studying. Although I am a researcher also. So anyway, it was a nice day for a drive so....I had the car at 14 bars and I plugged her in. When full, I left immediately to follow Stan's advice on the warm battery thing. I guess 2 bars of charge was enough to warm it up. Air temp was about 80F today. Breezy but not windy. I wanted to see how I did in the first leg of the trip, because I know from my house to the farmlands is the most hilly by far and then after that it is very flat to the shore. At least I think so. I've have not taken the back roads to this friend's house yet so not sure but most of Jersey is really flat everywhere I've seen over there.
I put it in B and left. I kept the needle low in the eco zone, most of the time on the e of eco, or the c of eco, only briefly going higher if there was a hill or bridge. When I got into NJ the roads were marked 45 and 50. The car seemed to do 43-45 very nicely with little resistance. There were some small grades and I dropped below 40 a few times. I didn't want to be too perfect because I wanted to leave room for improvement next time. I could have gone easier but I would have annoyed some more people. If I do this for real I probably would.
Anyway, I had this fruit stand in mind at the end of this long road (Elk Rd 538) just before highway Rt 55. I also had the goal of going until I had used up 6 bars and turning around because then I would have 6 to get home and 4 bars buffer.
When I got to the fruit stand I had 27.8 miles on the trip odometer and 56RR. The distance from the fruit stand to the shore is 60 miles (if google maps is correct and there are no detours). So I figure I could have made it on turtle and had a mile left! Actually I think I would do better than that RR calculation because I think it is flatter for that 60 miles than it was in my last 20 before the fruit stand. So I think I might have made it without hitting turtle.
So - I didn't pump up my tires. They are at 51psi. So I could probably pump them too 56. I don't know how much that may help. Also, I think I could probably do better next time since this was really my first time driving this carefully and quite a few times I used energy so I didn't annoy those behind me. I feel like I could pinch 5 more miles out of the whole trip if I didn't worry so much about that next time.
I'm ordering the parts for the two different dryer types. I know I'll use those some day. I'm not sure about the welding ones or the RV styles. I think instead of spending all that time and money for those adapters and having to carry them all in the car I might save that money and use it towards towing costs if I ever need it. I don't mind paying for the towing if it happens, especially because it will get me there faster than waiting for a charge. I really would rather calculate correctly and do trial runs until I am fairly certain I can get to a particular destination or just don't do it. Plus I figure everyone has a dryer so If I knock on several doors someone is going to be nice right? There are no good charging stations anywhere close to the shore so I'm thinking I will look for something in the beginning of the journey, soon after I cross the bridge into NJ where I could stop and add maybe 14 miles or so and be on my way. But it really would be nice to get there in one shot, that's the whole challenge right?
RV parks are a good idea. I'm going to look at the charging options next including welding shops...but even those - won't the shop be using the welding equipment during the day? Or do they typically have multiple receptacles?
Oh, and when I got home there were 56 miles on the trip and 20RR. But I was not as careful coming home and again, this was two ways of the most hilly part.