Domiku

I mostly charge up at home (240V receptacle and L2 EVSE), and I limited my charge to stop at 80%. I've heard competing ideas about if that's really necessary, but I usually drive <50mi each day, so I figured I don't need to full range anyway. When we're planning to take a trip or something with the car, I will charge fully the night before.

First of all, that final battle was a wild ride! One of the phases took me a minute to figure out, but it was so much fun, and really connected with some of the unique themes of this entry.

I didn’t get nearly as close to 100% as I did in BotW. In the first game, I did every shrine and all of the side quests, but there is just so much more content to this game. I worried that if I tried to complete everything before the final battle, the game would overstay its welcome, and I would finish with a feeling of “just get it over with.”

I’ve actually found that sentiment to be true with a lot of larger games recently. I want to end on a high emotional note, even if it means completing less side content.

For those who are interested in building iOS apps for Lemmy, I found really nice package for interfacing with the API. I’ve been playing around with it, and it’s very easy to use!

I took my first road trip with a 2023 Bolt EUV over the weekend and wanted to share my experience.

Basics

• Northeast USA
• Around 100mi (160km) each way
• Overnight stay with charging at destination

Since getting my car, I've been limiting its max charge to around 80%, as I usually don't drive more than 50mi (80km) in a day. Of course the night before this trip, I let it charge to 100% at home.

About 2/3 miles were on the interstate, so traveling around 70-75mph (120 km/h). My main curiosity was around efficiency loss at those speeds. I knew we'd have plenty of range buffer, but I was treating this trip as a trial run before we go for longer distances. We arrived at our destination with about 50% charge remaining, so there was definitely some efficiency loss, but nothing too drastic – my friend has a Nissan Leaf and warned me about highway speeds, but her experience seems more negative than mine was.

We arrived at our museum/destination with several Chargepoint stations, and my inconsiderate/oblivious self picked a bay that already had a car charging at it. As a result, I was charging at half speed for a while (and affect the other driver's charge speed). After about 2 hours, they topped off and my car switched to faster charging. Total cost to charge back to 100% was about $10 - this included energy costs and parking time.

Overall, it was a very stress-free trip, and gave me confidence to try something longer. I also learned a few things for next time (especially about being a good EV citizen). For longer trips, I know that the Bolt has slow DC Fast Charging, so I'm hesitant to rely on that too much (also, the non-Tesla network is sparse), but I might try a few Fast Chargers just to test them out.

Hopefully I'm not breaking any guidelines on self-promotion, but I bet some of y'all have made some really cool things.

Whether it's physical, art, a website, or software -- what is something that you're really proud of creating?

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