Yosemite is an example of a loved national park. Most visitors in the park clog into a valley giving the park a name. Pollution of these cars, trucks, and buses is trapped there because the valley is surrounded by a beautiful 2000 feet high cliff scenery. To deal with this problem, the park service introduces a free hybrid shuttle bus system to visitors coming in the valley, and encourages visitors to park their cars outside the park and use the bus . People like me who want to visit the Yosemite Valley to reduce the pollution of the air are driving electric vehicles without exhaust gases like the Toyota Rav 4 EV I drive.
Electric cars are neither available nor practical than the previous ones and are getting better than usual. Certainly, they still do not have the range that gasoline cars and diesel cars have, but the range they have can handle about 90% of the average person's driving needs. Also, like Yosemite, as availability of charging stations increases, more trips will be possible.
There are three types of charging stations. Level 1 is standard household current with 110 or 120 volt AC. Level 2 is 208 or 240 V AC. The current electric clothes dryer is sometimes called DCFC (direct current fast charge) or DCC (direct current fast charge) of maximum 500 volts instead of AC current thereafter.
There are also three different types or protocols for this last level. First of all, there is a Tesla Supercharger that can only be used for Tesla Motors electric cars. Next, there is a composite charging system (CCS) or a DC combo charger. And finally there is CHAdeMo. Unlike Level 1 and Level 2, this is direct current and goes directly into the battery pack rather than via a charger like an alternating current. An important concept is that the higher the wattage (volts, ampere volts), the better it is to charge the battery of the electric car at high speed. As a result, Level 1 is the slowest, Level 3 is the fastest.
To find out where these different charging stands are, you can access plugin.com online. Or, if you have an EV with a quick charge port of CHAdeMO type, you need to check out the website chademo.com. Yosemite village has three level 2 charging stations in the car park of the village store.
By adding a quick charge port to the car called JdeMO in a business called Quick Charge Power, you can now use the CHAdeMO type quick charging station. Our RAV 4 was not originally in this rapid charging port, and Toyota did not offer it as an option. Many of today's electric vehicles already have a quick charge port. Alternatively, it can be an option added by the manufacturer.
I visited Yosemite by electric car from Sacramento's home twice this year. It was the first visit before adding a quick charge port. On my first visit, MapQuest arrived at Valley, following numbers 16 and 49 and 120, since it showed it is the most direct and shortest route to the park. This was the approximate mid-point of my journey, charging at the Tuttletown Recreation Area of New Melones Reservoir. In the use area of the day, there is a level 2 electric car charging station. I dropped in there for lunch break and read newspapers and other materials that meant that I was reading for a long time.
After two and a half to three hours of break, I went to Yosemite again and picked up the highway 120 at once. According to your point of view, the famous section of Highway 120 is Old Priest Grade Road. The modern highway 120 bypasses it, but if you tilt this steep, narrow and winding strip of asphalt, you will be provided with a shortcut to the park. I was convinced that there would be no problem even if Rav4 climbed to it, but indeed I hit a button to put the motor in "sports mode". This setting increases the acceleration and maximum speed of the vehicle, so I have a little more power to this rise. I wanted to go late so I went up with a problematic speed limit except that the car driver behind me listened to me.
Sheesh! What did he expect? I shrugged my shoulders and responded, but increased the pace a little. When I reached the top of my grade, I rolled in the road next door and handed mom to me. I turned off "sports mode" and continued at my own pace and returned to the highway.
When I arrived in the northwestern entrance of Yosemite, Big Oak Flat Entrance, I was really worried about whether I would make it to the Valley charging station. My dash range meter showed a mile less than the sign that the entrance station sign was facing the Yosemite Valley. Yikes! I wished for the best and continued. I have to tell you that I was sweating all the curves and was sweating all the uphill slopes on the road. Oh, I was running in my head, I am not going to make it, yeah. When I arrived at the crane / flat I knew that I was not making it unless my EV could regenerate enough power to run down the hill down the valley.
It was then that happened. After the crane flat, the road fell to a stable unlenting downgrade. Its beauty was not only that gravity is doing all work but also because the car's motor was working as a generator now, it was not just that we did not draw electricity from the battery pack. battery. I approached the valley while the range meter actually increased.
I still did not know if I had enough charge to make it to charging station, but at least I was looking better to make it to the valley floor. I decided to look at the magnificent view of El Capitan and Half Dome at the first overlook of the valley. Then I continued the coast towards the valley.
At the time, I finally reached the intersection with the highway 140. I was showing a potential range of 19 miles, and I was sure of making it to the charging station. In the valley there is a very efficient reason to actually run all cars, including electric cars, because the speed is slow. That guaranteed that when I finally reached the charging station, I was about 11 miles on the rangefinder. Too exciting, too!
It is also wonderful for the park to provide a free shuttle service in the valley. While my Rav 4 was plugged into the charging station, I was able to enjoy the park by running through various viewpoints and the trailhead using the bus. In fact, after throwing my tent at the valley camp 4, I drifted to plug into the charging station for the night and went back to the camp to spend the night. After the next morning breakfast, I had a fully charged EV back to the charging station, riding another bus, showing 131 miles to the dash and waiting for me.
At the drive house, I was almost descending from Yosemite on the way to Sacramento, so I was able to drive on the way, and after I arrived in Jackson's town I just went home by charging for about an hour.
My second visit brought about a big change in the trip after the ChaDEMO rapid charging port was set up. Instead of taking the most direct route, I planned a route that took me with a quick charger meaning highway 99-140. My one stop this time was in Atwater near Merced, and the stop was only about one hour. I spent a subway sandwich lunch time. Since the quick charger was only charged for 30 minutes at a time, charging had to be resumed in the middle of charging. After that, please return to the road for 89 miles to the 32 miles and valleys of the range that remains when I get there. Nice cushion.
When I came home I displayed 134 miles on the range indicator when I removed the plug from the charging station. As I expected, I drew a range when I got out of the valley, but interesting things happened. After passing through the Arch Rock entrance, the road advanced a fairly stable downhill course toward the intersection of the Merced River. At one point, I was watching the 135 mile on the dashboard, so I increased the potential range than I first leave Valley. Pretty cool!
In order to fulfill your role to prevent you fogging Yosemite and preventing fog in the valley, think about the visit with electric cars. You can choose the charging stand in both the valley and the way you can plug in and there are plenty of models in convenient places.
The website that lists the available charging stations is http://www.plugshare.com.
Another website that lists the quick charge station and its location is http://www.CHAdeMO.com.
