SpaceEVDriver
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I have a regular, 7-8 hour route between northern Arizona and the Los Angeles area. I drive it several times a year at a minimum and up to more than once a month depending on work. As I'm waiting for my Mustang to be built, I'm looking at the A Better Route Planner app and evaluating route options. For various unreasonable reasons, I avoid stopping in Needles unless absolutely necessary.
With my ICE vehicle, I could almost always avoid stopping in Needles. However, the ABRP app insists that I want to charge there for nearly an hour if I stay on the I-40 route. It does offer completely different routes that look to cost nearly the same amount of time, but that don't stop in Needles. I'm evaluating those routes and whether I believe other considerations will allow me to use them.
At the moment, it does look like my past regular route will become obsolete because of the sparsity of chargers along I-40. I wonder if others are choosing slightly different paths to/from some of their regular destinations because of charger availability? If so, I also wonder how much this might change the landscape of long-distance travel over the next five to ten years, or--more likely--we'll just see a bunch more chargers go into various stations?
With my ICE vehicle, I could almost always avoid stopping in Needles. However, the ABRP app insists that I want to charge there for nearly an hour if I stay on the I-40 route. It does offer completely different routes that look to cost nearly the same amount of time, but that don't stop in Needles. I'm evaluating those routes and whether I believe other considerations will allow me to use them.
At the moment, it does look like my past regular route will become obsolete because of the sparsity of chargers along I-40. I wonder if others are choosing slightly different paths to/from some of their regular destinations because of charger availability? If so, I also wonder how much this might change the landscape of long-distance travel over the next five to ten years, or--more likely--we'll just see a bunch more chargers go into various stations?
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