You can get from Christchurch to Hokatika now in a 30KWh Leaf due to new rapid chargers. The elevation is around 900 meters at Castle Hill Should have plenty of range dropping down into Hokatika around 4.7KWh of gravitational potential, which is around 26 KM of range in the Leaf. Rule of thumb for a Leaf 30 is 1000meters of elevation is 15 to 20% range from experience. Add caption https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/potential-energy There's an online calculator for everything nowadays
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