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[benswing]

We may be getting ahead of ourselves, but if everything works out with the DigiNow Super Charger we should be able to take all electric motorcycle road trips together. 

Inspired by mrwilsn's comment in another thread, let the planning begin...

I made a google doc to gauge initial interest in road tripping on our Zeros.  If you think of a category of information that would be useful, please add it.  Even if you can't do much of a road trip, it will be fun to know where everyone is so we can find each other for weekend rides.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HqdPRT8N9Yl7puMH_-UpDZ2l135WN5-2UNl7oHasj9k/edit#gid=0

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

I've made up a spreadsheet (in Apple Numbers, crudely exported through the Excel format to Google Sheets) estimating road trip tradeoffs for my 2016 DSR. I plugged in Zero's stated figures in addition to my own measurements, which makes the estimates a little fuzzy.

I am assuming a level of aerodynamic optimization equivalent to my large windscreen modification, which makes 70mph more efficient, and also sticking with a trip leg that runs the battery from 80-20% each time, which is conservative. I'd expect 85-15% in practice just because I can't control RV park dispersion.

The short version is that the average trip speed with the Supercharger is 40mph, and covering 400miles per day seems to be no problem, especially given the number of breaks and lack of vibration/noise fatigue. I'd push it to 450 probably very easily by starting the day early.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V8O7tyPHeKrn8Vn6Bnt7G_UL3Xr0R-nawkW4UYDvYFs/edit?usp=sharing