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It's become routine, so I didn't get any photos of the car by itself.
We drove along I-40 from Flagstaff to Albuquerque. We left at 08:20 AZ with 100% SOCD.
Our first charging stop was Grants, NM. We rolled into Grants with 15% SOCD. We left Grants 23 minutes later with 58% SOCD. We chose to leave before charging up to 80% because we were expecting to have an L2 at the hotel in ABQ. We got to Albuquerque with about 33% remaining at 13:30 AZ (5 hours, 10 minutes total time since leaving Flagstaff).
I've been told it's not possible for me to do an EV road trip with minimal increase in time. My drives to Albuquerque have been ~5 hours for decades.
The hotel's L2 was right in front of the hotel entrance, which seemed like a dumb place to leave our car for an L2 charge, so we skipped charging on L2.
Went to dinner, visited a museum and Old Town, and did some around-town driving. Ended the night at the hotel with about 26% remaining.
Next morning I ran over to the DCFC nearby and charged up to 90% (I got distracted while chatting with another person charging).
Went to breakfast, and the arboretum. The arboretum has L2 chargers in their parking lot, and 3 of four were empty, so we plugged in. We sent an hour and 20 minutes, walked around the gardens, and had a generally lovely time. The car charged up to 93%.
We dropped off people and then headed home, at 12:40 AZ.
I was driving and got sleepy by the time we got to Grants. The original plan was to skip Grants, but I wasn't going to be able to drive to Gallup, so my partner took over. While we were stopping in Grants for driver swap, our bio stop, and to grab some caffeine and snacks, we plugged in and charged up from 59% to 81% (15 minutes). This wasn't strictly necessary, but we were there, so why not. The charging station was empty.
Someone in a Mustang GT with a very loud exhaust shouted over themselves, "Hey, man, I love the Mustang!" I was caught off guard and so wasn't prepared to respond and just just flashed a peace sign or thumbs up or something. They had a big grin on their face.
We decided to stop in Gallup for another short charge, bio break, etc (21% added, bringing us up to 80%, 15 minutes).
The drive from Gallup to Flagstaff is usually completely reasonable with a starting SOCD of 80%, but we hit some 30-40 mph headwinds and ended up with our lowest freeway efficiency to-date (~2.0 miles/kWh), so we stopped in Winslow for another short charge and a bio break (9 minutes, 20% added).
We arrived home with about 17% SOCD and plugged into our L1 charger. Time was 18:00 AZ., 5 hours, 20 minutes.
We drove along I-40 from Flagstaff to Albuquerque. We left at 08:20 AZ with 100% SOCD.
Our first charging stop was Grants, NM. We rolled into Grants with 15% SOCD. We left Grants 23 minutes later with 58% SOCD. We chose to leave before charging up to 80% because we were expecting to have an L2 at the hotel in ABQ. We got to Albuquerque with about 33% remaining at 13:30 AZ (5 hours, 10 minutes total time since leaving Flagstaff).
I've been told it's not possible for me to do an EV road trip with minimal increase in time. My drives to Albuquerque have been ~5 hours for decades.
The hotel's L2 was right in front of the hotel entrance, which seemed like a dumb place to leave our car for an L2 charge, so we skipped charging on L2.
Went to dinner, visited a museum and Old Town, and did some around-town driving. Ended the night at the hotel with about 26% remaining.
Next morning I ran over to the DCFC nearby and charged up to 90% (I got distracted while chatting with another person charging).
Went to breakfast, and the arboretum. The arboretum has L2 chargers in their parking lot, and 3 of four were empty, so we plugged in. We sent an hour and 20 minutes, walked around the gardens, and had a generally lovely time. The car charged up to 93%.
We dropped off people and then headed home, at 12:40 AZ.
I was driving and got sleepy by the time we got to Grants. The original plan was to skip Grants, but I wasn't going to be able to drive to Gallup, so my partner took over. While we were stopping in Grants for driver swap, our bio stop, and to grab some caffeine and snacks, we plugged in and charged up from 59% to 81% (15 minutes). This wasn't strictly necessary, but we were there, so why not. The charging station was empty.
Someone in a Mustang GT with a very loud exhaust shouted over themselves, "Hey, man, I love the Mustang!" I was caught off guard and so wasn't prepared to respond and just just flashed a peace sign or thumbs up or something. They had a big grin on their face.
We decided to stop in Gallup for another short charge, bio break, etc (21% added, bringing us up to 80%, 15 minutes).
The drive from Gallup to Flagstaff is usually completely reasonable with a starting SOCD of 80%, but we hit some 30-40 mph headwinds and ended up with our lowest freeway efficiency to-date (~2.0 miles/kWh), so we stopped in Winslow for another short charge and a bio break (9 minutes, 20% added).
We arrived home with about 17% SOCD and plugged into our L1 charger. Time was 18:00 AZ., 5 hours, 20 minutes.
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