Blaine, Washington to Denver, Colorado and Back: 8 days, 3,345 miles, 57 hours wheel time, 2.7 m/kwh

[WallyS56]

Walmarts, Targets, and strip malls rarely have the kind of restaurants I like to enjoy while charging at lunch or dinner to 90 or 100%, and 35 minutes is not enough time to enjoy a good meal so I actually prefer the slower DCFCs at lunch. (It’s not so much that I really mind jumping up between courses to move the car, it’s more that the fastest DCFCs are usually in unappealing locations near Walmarts, Targets, or strip malls, while slower ones are often in the centre of charming small towns.)

Use PlugShare and Booking.com to find the hotels with EV chargers. For example, I wonder if the OP went through Butte, MO? Booking.com filter shows one hotel with a charger in Butte. PlugShare shows no hotels with L2s, but shows the Rocker Inn is next to the EA Flying J, so one could charge to 100% there if one can do it while eating dinner or breakfast to avoid the idle fees.

If you’re looking for hotels with PlugShare, obviously activate the “Lodging” filter, but also be sure to change the default filters to not “hide restrictive access”.

I did use filters, but we’re kinda cheap on hotels. I use hotels.com primarily. Only had two with chargers on last fall’s trip: L2 in San Francisco and an L1 in Oregon. We did book hotels on three separate nights that were within a block or two of Tesla Superchargers.

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[music_cities]

I did use filters, but we’re kinda cheap on hotels. I use hotels.com primarily. Only had two with chargers on last fall’s trip: L2 in San Francisco and an L1 in Oregon. We did book hotels on three separate nights that were within a block or two of Tesla Superchargers.

I stayed at "The Historic Davenport Hotel" in downtown Spokane, a hotel I've always wanted to stay in but could never afford before. But now with an EV I pretty much *had* to stay there to get the free charging! It's about the most expensive free charging I've had so far.

 

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Journeyed to Loveland, Colorado for next-oldest grandson’s high school graduation: eight days, 3,345 miles, 57 hours of wheel time, 2.7 m/kwh. Observations:

1. Glad I renewed BlueCruise for a month. Probably used 60% of the time. BC is not fond of corners and kicks into adaptive cc and lane keeping when confronted with too many of them at higher speeds. It will also kick to cc when set to any speed above 81 mph.
2. Wyoming and Montana are charging deserts, but you CAN traverse them with careful planning. Had to use Blink chargers at a GM and a Jeep dealership.
3. Tesla Superchargers rock. Fairly plentiful, stalls always available (except in LA), much cheaper (with membership), and always dependably fast. Electrify America was a second choice, but much more expensive and occasionally glitched (reduced KWH charging).
4. These cars are noisy, especially on the ragged roads of the freeze-over states. Can’t hardly hear media at speed. And what happened to YouTube on the choices? Any quieter tire options available?
5. Aside from noise, the Mach E is a comfortable ride. Had a BMW 328 Touring in Europe last month for two weeks and my back still aches just thinking about it.
6. Finally, I find it much more effective and logical to start with a 85% charge and plan each day’s charging needs the night before. I’ve tried the trip planning apps, but find them all glitched in some way.

And a moment of silence in respect for the 1,879,236 insects that sacrificed their lives to make this trip possible.
Questions, comments, criticism?

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I just did a simple Seattle Spokane. Pretty much 100% blue cruiser from Ellensb to Spokane. Exception via Vantage

 

[Deleted member 19354]

I stayed at "The Historic Davenport Hotel" in downtown Spokane, a hotel I've always wanted to stay in but could never afford before. But now with an EV I pretty much *had* to stay there to get the free charging! It's about the most expensive free charging I've had so far.

Did you have a bev at the Peacock room?

 

[WallyS56]

I just did a simple Seattle Spokane. Pretty much 100% blue cruiser from Ellensb to Spokane. Exception via Vantage

Yep- once you come down from the Cascades, BC works well.

 

[Ahlarict]

Yep- once you come down from the Cascades, BC works well.

True dat - In the greater Seattle area, I find BC more annoying than useful as it seems to bail intermittently (someone suggested a relationship to the Good2Go infrastructure?), but it sure does work nice on those large empty stretches east of the mountains.

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