As with so many things in modern life that are good, we start taking them for granted fast.

My boss agreed to buy two Clipper Creek LCS-40 EVSEs, and they arrived a few days later. I bolted them to the wall and ran the conduit indoors myself, but I’m not licensed as an electrician so we had to wait a few more days for our guy to connect them to a breaker box. There’s a ton of construction going on at my Company so we have electricians and carpenters and ironworkers everywhere.

And now I’m just charging every day. When I get here early in the morning it’s no problem to park and charge, but if I’m offsite to start the day I usually park elsewhere and jump on one of the EVSEs when the gas car’s driver goes out to lunch. Only once did I have to ask one of those drivers to move so I could charge.

With winter weather down below freezing, my full-charge range is down to about 60 miles on the Guess-O-Meter. If I start the heater or defroster, it drops by ten miles right away.

Just because I’m naturally efficiency-minded I try to just run the defroster and heater when absolutely necessary. But when I’m driving to work (just 15 miles one-way ) and have 40 miles of range, I should really just enjoy feeling toasty warm.