We just returned from a short road trip from our him in Swansea IL to visit family in Heber Springs Arkansas. This trip was a bit of a challenge given the lack of DCFC in that part of Arkansas. You can get IN but getting OUT is a challenge. For us, there is only one way IN/OUT and that is charging at the Miner MO SCer, and staying at a resort that has over a DOZEN Tesla Destination Chargers, more on that later. So here's how we did it and how it went:
Door to door the nav says it's 334 miles requiring a stop at the Miner MO SCer. It's 208 miles from the SCer to the resort we stayed at. This is that leg, temps were in the HIGH 90s and reached 100 degrees for a couple of hours on that 4-hour leg. Both legs took exactly 7 hours which included a 30-minute lunch/SC stop.
We found this resort/hotel from the Tesla Destination Charger map. It's on the Little Red River, the cabins are a little dated but very clean and the staff is super friendly and obviously EV supporters: Home | Lindsey's Resort | Little Red River
There were 4 (of the 12) Tesla HPWCs about 100 feet from our cabin. Our Y charging, how awesome to wake to a FULL charge (90%) and precondition the cabin before departing:
During our 2+ days, we traveled over 200 miles to/from the resort.
We departed with a 100% charge as it was going to be brutally HOT again and I wanted a buffer for unknowns. We made it home in 7 hours and here are the final tallies for our 870 mini road trip:
We charged twice at the Miner MO SCer. On the OUT leg, there were only two Tesla charging, and on our trip home we were the only Tesla charging. I guess the folks in Calif would be envious. The SCer is located in the parking lot of a fabulous Mexican restaurant - Home - El Bracero Mexican Given our SOC needs and charging speeds on the V2 chargers we had just enough time for a great lunch and were in and out in 30 minutes.
Each leg was just at 7 hours so even in an ICE vehicle we still would have needed to stop for lunch. So for this particular trip, an EV was just as fast as ANY ICE. Our total SC costs came to $31. So we traveled 870 miles for $31. If an ICE vehicle averaged 25 MPG it would have consumed 34 gallons of gas, at $4.75 per gal they would have spent over $160 for gas.
Door to door the nav says it's 334 miles requiring a stop at the Miner MO SCer. It's 208 miles from the SCer to the resort we stayed at. This is that leg, temps were in the HIGH 90s and reached 100 degrees for a couple of hours on that 4-hour leg. Both legs took exactly 7 hours which included a 30-minute lunch/SC stop.
We found this resort/hotel from the Tesla Destination Charger map. It's on the Little Red River, the cabins are a little dated but very clean and the staff is super friendly and obviously EV supporters: Home | Lindsey's Resort | Little Red River
There were 4 (of the 12) Tesla HPWCs about 100 feet from our cabin. Our Y charging, how awesome to wake to a FULL charge (90%) and precondition the cabin before departing:
During our 2+ days, we traveled over 200 miles to/from the resort.
We departed with a 100% charge as it was going to be brutally HOT again and I wanted a buffer for unknowns. We made it home in 7 hours and here are the final tallies for our 870 mini road trip:
We charged twice at the Miner MO SCer. On the OUT leg, there were only two Tesla charging, and on our trip home we were the only Tesla charging. I guess the folks in Calif would be envious. The SCer is located in the parking lot of a fabulous Mexican restaurant - Home - El Bracero Mexican Given our SOC needs and charging speeds on the V2 chargers we had just enough time for a great lunch and were in and out in 30 minutes.
Each leg was just at 7 hours so even in an ICE vehicle we still would have needed to stop for lunch. So for this particular trip, an EV was just as fast as ANY ICE. Our total SC costs came to $31. So we traveled 870 miles for $31. If an ICE vehicle averaged 25 MPG it would have consumed 34 gallons of gas, at $4.75 per gal they would have spent over $160 for gas.
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