CHARGING NEAR MOUNT WASHINGTON MT WASHINGTON
Drove from Boston suburbs to Pinkham Notch (Mt Washington) this morning, then around north through Goreham, down to Twin Mountain, over to 91, down through Hanover, to a small lake just North of Sunapee, where I tap away now on the laptop.
That's 330 miles. 178 to Pinkham Notch, 148 around the Northern route.
Left with 260, arrived Mt Washington with 67 left.
Charged at three places, in part for the fun of it, and to help out all for this trip Aug 3rd:
Nissan Dealer in Berlin, just Northwest of Goreham charged at 30A = 16mph. Ate lunch in car. Good times. Uselessly slow, industrial area, but they were very nice. Charged 45 min. Outlet MAY BE AVAILABLE 24/7 - not sure. Edit: yes it is - per Peter K's excellent write up at top of this thread. Is on right side of the main building, just after the service entrance.
Heading a few miles EAST of Goreham on Route 2 the are
White Birches and Timberland Campgrounds:
White Birches has 50A outlets but all were taken.
Dave at Timberlands very helpful - we agreed on $10 for 4 hours on a 50A circuit = 26 miles/hour. I charged an hour and left as that was the only 50A and an RV came to stay the night. Dave offered to refund me, I said please put it toward the next Tesla that arrives, so go collect on that
Found a nice little place in Twin Mountain,
Tarry Ho! Campground, has (I believe) five 50A outlets; a simple place with some narrow but more-private -than typical sites by the river..but the 50A sites are not on the river. Charged there 2.5 hours, we had agreed on $10 minimum for up to four hours (based on same rates posted for charging ar RV sites on Plug Share). Nice folks. There are some cabins there with private baths. Suspect that one could charge at the 50A site and stay over in a cabin or river-site. Impressively, the very kind woman there knew a lot about Tesla - Nicola, not the car...
The key point is that both Timberland and Tarry Ho have agreed, moving forward, to let us charge there for the $10 minimum, up to 4 hours, at 50A. Gave full Tesla Time Tours and was appreciated. They will all be happy to see you. Call ahead!
I hope to be there but really uncertain. And, yes, I was tempted to whisp up the auto-road today but held off. Will drive no wine before its time...something like that.
Oh, I arrived here with 12 miles range. Means I wasted more than 20 minutes charging...Ha!
Peter K - super story, pictures, explanations - bravo on being the first Tesla to Peak Washington. Possibly the first all-electric car.
