What is your definition of a "Road Trip?"

[Mach-Lee]

Traveling >100 miles from home.

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[Teslaeata]

Well, a road trip, is it the average 250-400 mile day out on the road working………….or what about a 925mile trip in 23 1/2 hours!

In an ICE I definitely would’ve stayed out overnight that day but in a leccy vehicle meant the frequent 20-30min Power nap at a rapid charger every 200 miles or so meant it was achievable in one hit!

Never going ICE again and with no other EV so good looking as the ‘Stang will probably have a ‘Stang unless an EV Triumph Stag comes along.

 

[TheVirtualTim]

Driving far enough that you wont be returning home the same day is a road-trip. Otherwise it is just a day-trip.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Well, a road trip, is it the average 250-400 mile day out on the road working………….or what about a 925mile trip in 23 1/2 hours!

In an ICE I definitely would’ve stayed out overnight that day but in a leccy vehicle meant the frequent 20-30min Power nap at a rapid charger every 200 miles or so meant it was achievable in one hit!

Never going ICE again and with no other EV so good looking as the ‘Stang will probably have a ‘Stang unless an EV Triumph Stag comes along.

I had a recent trip where I left for home later than I'd planned, so I was driving in the dark (not good for me) and did not have a hotel reservation on my route. When I got too tired to keep driving, I stopped at a public L2 station, napped for about six hours while charging (heated seats!) And then continued on.

 

[leehinde]

Overnight stay. Otherwise it's just a long drive. But I wouldn't argue with "requires a charging stop."

 

[macchiaz-o]

What is my definition of a road trip?

For me, a road trip started off as summer vacations up and down the east coast, putting up with my brother's idiocy and being sandwiched for hours at a time between the door frame and my sister's car seat.

After college it became driving my coworker Brian to other friends' bachelor parties in Vegas because Brian's license was suspended by a cop on a horse in downtown Tempe. And then driving Brian back to Phoenix but getting busted for speeding through Kingman and questioned about the passed out individual on the floor by the back seat.

Now that I'm older, wiser, and boring as F***, a road trip is any trip that requires pre-planning in abetterrouteplanner or PlugShare.

 

[Monke]

An of town trip with at least 3.5 hour drive. That is about 250 miles.

 

[ARK]

I live in Los Angeles. From my perspective, I’d consider going to Palm Springs or San Diego a roadtrip, each is about 100 miles away, but not Orange County, about 50 miles away.

 

[Deleted member 16048]

I consider it a road trip if leaving further than a 2 hour straight out and will require 2 DC fast chargers to make it home. lol

 

[Teslaeata]

Thought all you across the pond were going to make me look a lightweight with my 925 mile day - and none of it was at the double-nickel if that’s even a thing any more, or the UK equivalent for that matter!

I didn’t even think you could do anything like that sort of mileage here without ending up in the sea?

Did see some men in skirts in Scotchland, though?

 

[phil]

Thought all you across the pond were going to make me look a lightweight with my 925 mile day - and none of it was at the double-nickel if that’s even a thing any more, or the UK equivalent for that matter!

I didn’t even think you could do anything like that sort of mileage here without ending up in the sea?

Did see some men in skirts in Scotchland, though?

You got me beat. My best was 800 miles, New York to Chicago.

925 is pretty good, but now that you mention it, it does seem gratuitous on a British Isle...

 

[eleven24]

Anything that requires planning out where I'm going to charge along the way

 

[MellowJohnny]

Overnight stay = road trip

Longest day was 1500+ km, but that was in an ICE.

 

[Tampamike]

I was about to post about a road trip that's coming up and it got me thinking... What is a road trip?
Is it 150 miles and two hours from home?
Is it 1500 miles and 20 hours from home?
Does it require an overnight stay?

My upcoming overnight trip is about 350 miles one way. That's right at the edge of what I think of as a road trip.

What about you?

Yes.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

You got me beat. My best was 800 miles, New York to Chicago.

925 is pretty good, but now that you mention it, it does seem gratuitous on a British Isle...

My longest one day drive ever was an ~900 mile drive from northern CA to AZ through Nevada with snow storms in the Sierra Nevadas in the morning and in the San Francisco mountain at night. Took ~16 hours and that cured me of marathon drives.

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