Vary nervousness and lengthy charging time: The ups and downs of my EV street journey in Malaysia

Similar to that, I had been delayed by nearly two hours simply due to charging for the route that will usually take one-and-a-half hours on a petroleum automobile. 

I arrived in Melaka in meal time, and headed again to Kuala Lumpur in haste. Sadly, all preliminary plans to discover Jonker Road flew out of the window due to the delay. 

I solely reached Kuala Lumpur at 11pm after being caught in a three-hour visitors jam on the North-South Expressway. Fortuitously, the battery held agency and I reached my vacation spot with round 30 per cent cost left.

Day considered one of my journey was purported to be my best – environment friendly freeway with a number of DC chargers. But, I used to be already bodily and mentally exhausted. 

KL-KUANTAN: SLOWEST VEHICLE ON THE ROAD

The drive within the Mini electrical automobile from KL to Kuantan was nearly going to be mission unimaginable.

The 2 cities are round 236km aside, above the automobile vary of about 200km. On prime of that, the one obtainable charging level alongside the journey was an AC charger at a pump station at Gambang, 192km from KL. 

However, I made a decision to offer it a go. Godspeed. 

A member of the Malaysia Electrical Car membership suggested me to check out a method which may enable me to maximise the vary of the automobile – hypermiling. 

This includes driving at a comparatively low pace alongside the freeway and avoiding accelerating an excessive amount of. I needed to be economical with stepping on the accelerator or danger getting stranded.

Heeding his recommendation, I used to be driving the Mini on the left lane, holding the pace to round 80km/h whereas every kind of autos whizzed previous – pick-up vehicles, hatchbacks and even enormous cargo lorries. 

I used to be doubtless the slowest automobile on the freeway that day.