I wanted to do some walking to get my heart rate up. I have been trying to get in three or four hours a week of walking in moderate and vigorous zones. I now enjoy spending a few minutes in peak too. In addition, my car had charge of just 66%. So, it made perfect sense to drive up to Queen's Park.
I sort of thought it might take one hour to walk around the circumference of the park. I knew that my car would get to my usual charge of 80-85% in less than a half hour on the DC fast chargers. Still I decided to give it a try and let the car get more of a charge than I usually put in. When driving around town and taking short trips, the maximum isn't necessary and might actually be a tiny bit stressful on an EV battery that isn't traveling far.
I'd never tried to walk on the path I did today. My goal is to keep in Fitbit's Active Zone for about a hour per day. Surprisingly, I found it only took 36 minutes to complete that path! My car had reached 90% of a full charge. Hum, and I hadn't completed my whole hour.
Then, I remember that it could still get a bit of exercise if I let my car reach its maximum at the slower Level 2 chargers at our City Hall. That building is only a 10-minute walk up a very steep hill from our apartment. So, I parked, plugged, and walked down the hill. One hour later, I got a notification my car was fully charged.
I got in another few minutes of hard exercise when walking up to collect my EV.