Traveling at my normal 9 mph over the speed limit, from my house in Arkansas to the East Coast of North Carolina (wife’s best friends house) is a journey of 982 miles in our Chevy Bolt, taking 14 H 37 min of driving and 6 hours 42 min of charging. Total time 21 hours 20 min. This means I have no choice but to stop for the night around the half way point. My typical Bolt EV road trip is split into 600 mile segments. A 600 mile travel day results in 9 hours of driving and 4 hours of charging for a total travel day of 13 hours. I would prefer my driving time to be 14 hours or less, and things seldom go as planned so scheduling out 13 hours (600 miles) gives an hour leeway for traffic jams, detours etc. Max range on a single day trip of around 800 miles if I really wanted to push hard, but that is for one day only… I wouldn’t want to do that if I had another day of driving ahead of me.
Doing the same trip in the MY LR, I could stretch it to do the whole trip in one day. The driving time would be the same, but charging time is less than a third of the charging time in the Bolt at just a hair over 2 hours. I wouldn’t like a total travel day of 16 hours and 45 min… but I could do it. As I said above, I would prefer my days to be 14 hours or less. For travel in the MY LR, that means around 800 miles per day with a stretch length of 1000 miles in a day if I want to do a single day trip… as above I wouldn’t try to do 1000 miles in a day if I had another day of driving ahead of me.
In an ICE car not hell bent on doing a Cannon ball run, you can cover 1000 miles a day pretty easily and make a coast to coast trip in 3 days. In a MY LR, doing 800 miles per day you can do the same trip in 4 days (3.5 but you have to round up). A coast to coast trip in the Bolt would technically take 62 hours 37 min, 40 hours 30 min of driving and 22 hours spent charging. In reality I would divide that up into 600 mile segments, and do the trip in 5 days (4.6, but once again you round up)
For medium distance trips you spend just as many days on the road in the MY as you do the Bolt, but it is more pleasant in the MY and less hours on the road even though it is the same number of travel days.
On an average vacation, you will have one extra travel day in each direction in the Bolt compared to the MY… and an ICE would have a 1 day advantage over the MY on really long trips, but about the same number of travel days on a medium to short range trip.
With my work schedule, it is pretty easy to get 7 days off for a mini vacation… traveling out to see the wife’s BFF with 4 total travel days (2 days there 2 days back) only gives 3 days spent on actual recreation, not really worth the trip… doing the same trip in the MY uses 2 total travel days, leaving 5 days spent on actual recreation.
Y’all see why I ordered the MY LR?
Keith
Doing the same trip in the MY LR, I could stretch it to do the whole trip in one day. The driving time would be the same, but charging time is less than a third of the charging time in the Bolt at just a hair over 2 hours. I wouldn’t like a total travel day of 16 hours and 45 min… but I could do it. As I said above, I would prefer my days to be 14 hours or less. For travel in the MY LR, that means around 800 miles per day with a stretch length of 1000 miles in a day if I want to do a single day trip… as above I wouldn’t try to do 1000 miles in a day if I had another day of driving ahead of me.
In an ICE car not hell bent on doing a Cannon ball run, you can cover 1000 miles a day pretty easily and make a coast to coast trip in 3 days. In a MY LR, doing 800 miles per day you can do the same trip in 4 days (3.5 but you have to round up). A coast to coast trip in the Bolt would technically take 62 hours 37 min, 40 hours 30 min of driving and 22 hours spent charging. In reality I would divide that up into 600 mile segments, and do the trip in 5 days (4.6, but once again you round up)
For medium distance trips you spend just as many days on the road in the MY as you do the Bolt, but it is more pleasant in the MY and less hours on the road even though it is the same number of travel days.
On an average vacation, you will have one extra travel day in each direction in the Bolt compared to the MY… and an ICE would have a 1 day advantage over the MY on really long trips, but about the same number of travel days on a medium to short range trip.
With my work schedule, it is pretty easy to get 7 days off for a mini vacation… traveling out to see the wife’s BFF with 4 total travel days (2 days there 2 days back) only gives 3 days spent on actual recreation, not really worth the trip… doing the same trip in the MY uses 2 total travel days, leaving 5 days spent on actual recreation.
Y’all see why I ordered the MY LR?
Keith