If you drive a Nissan Leaf, you can choose to participate in a fun competition with people around the world who are also Leaf drivers. The Nissan Leaf comes equipped with something called "Carwings," which is a computer program that sends information from the Leaf to a database that keeps track of your driving history. It logs energy economy, eco trees, distance traveled, energy consumed by accessories, regenerated energy, and number of trips. You are also ranked according to your average energy economy, the worst being a bronze ranking, and going up through silver, gold, and platinum rankings. The database gives you daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly regional rankings as well as world rankings . It has been really fun to see how I compare to other Leaf drivers around the world so far in these first two weeks!
Twice so far I have earned top 100 rankings for a daily competition! The first time was last week I was 42 out of over 1,300 people worldwide for least amount of energy consumed by accessories. I guess it pays to drive without the heat on. Just this past Friday I ranked 95 out of 1,672 participating drivers worldwide for eco trees made. The eco trees are a fun way to keep track of how economically you are driving your Leaf. So, it would take into consideration your kWh usage and how you are regenerating energy with your braking, and so on. There are five sections to earn in order to "build" an eco tree, which looks like a pine tree. On my Friday trips I build 5.8 eco trees, which is the most I've built in a day so far. This new-found eco mode has been good to me this week!
Some other information I can share with you based on my Carwings report is that I averaged 3.7 miles/kWh. This past week my average jumped up to 4.2 miles/kWh! In total for the two weeks I've been driving the Leaf I have traveled 480.2 miles and have used a total of 122 kWh. My total takes into consideration that I've used 147.5 kWh, but have regenerated 25.5 kWh with my braking. This tells me that I need to work on perfecting my braking to recapture some of the energy that would otherwise be lost.
I'll continue to keep you posted on my savings and lessened carbon footprint. Stay tuned...
480 miles = 122 kWh X $0.11 = $13.42 in electricity.
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