2 Weeks with #304

Well its been a very short 2 weeks with MINI E #304 we've racked up 642 miles together and although charging with the 120v cable can be a pain I'm really enjoying this car, just would like people to realize this is an electric car.

Last weekend I went to my fiancee's house again, there have been a number of biking events in the Philadelphia area lately and we have to goto those. The drive was uneventful, but I wanted to charge the MINI E at her house without having to move the cars all around, so I tried using an extension cord, after about 4 hours charging I noticed a burning smell coming from the outlet, I quickly unplugged things the smell seemed to be coming more from the plug end of the extension cord then anything. The next day we switched the cars arround blocking my MINI E in for the weekend, and charged from the same outlet without an extension cable, without a problem, this is the same outlet we'd used the week before. I was a bit surprised about this as it was a brand new 12 guage 25' extension cord rated for 120v 15A the best that I'm aware of, I guess we just arnt going to be able to drive the MINI E at her house as changing cars arround every time we need to use it is a pain.

Here are some figures for all you math nuts who want to know exactly what the range numbers I've been seeing are. You'll notice a number of the shorter rides have some very low or high numbers, I tend to discount these shorter drives as not giving a true estimate. While the overall Average Range is 103 miles, if we droped all drives less then 40 miles we get an Average Range of 108 miles on a full charge, or at least until the gauge says 0%, the car is suppose to drive beyond that at a reduced rate, but I havent tested it

Date	Miles driven	Starting charge	Ending Charge	% charge per mile	Range Estimate	Starting Miles to go	Ending Miles to go	Starting odm	Ending odm
8-Jun	17.4	100%	85%	0.86%	116		83	35		home from Dealer
8-Jun	21.1	88%	66%	1.04%	96		64			to mall
9-Jun	59.2	95%	40%	0.93%	108	93	41			work and erands
10-Jun		47%	26%				27	133		to dealer
10-Jun	27.3	100%	74%	0.95%	105	108	82			home from dealer
11-Jun	36.7	99%	66%	0.90%	111		74		214	to work
12-Jun	77.6	100%	31%	0.89%	112	114	36		292	to Fiancee's drove conservitively
13-Jun	5.3	87%	79%	1.51%	66
15-Jun	76.5	100%	29%	0.93%	108	108	27	301	378	Home from Fiancee's
16-Jun	47.8	100%	55%	0.94%	106	100	58
17-Jun	58.8	100%	43%	0.97%	103	108	45
18-Jun	34.2	79%	41%	1.11%	90	84	42		519
19-Jun	77.7	100%	27%	0.94%	106			523		to Fiancee's
22-Jun	76.5	100%	31%	0.90%	111	103	32	601	677	Home from Fiancee's