Road Trip Portland to Southern California

[Rooqie]

Hello All,
Planning our first major road trip for college visits. Have driven to Seattle multiple times with no issues charging. Somewhat nervous heading down I-5, especially in southern OR. Any issues, tips or advice is welcome.
Thanks for your help.

 

[gillius28]

Drove from Seattle to San Diego in a friend's Model 3 last year, no issues - plenty of chargers. To be safe, be fully charged long before the grapevine as that's where viral 2 hour supercharger lines were seen.

 

[LoudMusic]

I'd put the destination into the car's navigation today and see what route it plans, which superchargers to use, and how long it expects you to be at each one.

 

[Deleted member 205258]

Lay out your trip in plugshare as well to check elevation to get an idea what your against, the NAVSYSTEM does good to predict, but shasta and the grapvine---specially the grapevine are going to steal your juice, I agree with @gillius28, the grapevine is a steep incline, and the chargers always have a line, first trip from WA to san diego (we were towing a small camper) had a small freak, then the SC line...

 

[USC-Hawk]

We did San Diego to Medford and back over Christmas. Plenty of chargers, but also plenty of people charging. Some stations better than others (Bakersfield wasn’t paved yet). Easy trip overall with minimum charge anxiety.

 

[roblab]

I have found that if one leaves the motel / home / etc. to time arrival at superchargers at odd hours, there is no line for charging. Most people want to drive after breakfast and charge somewhere halfway along the way, and so you find a bunch of Teslas out looking for charging around noon. When wifey and I travel, we leave early, like 6AM, and drive leisurely along until early lunch, maybe 10, then we eat while charging (interesting how many chargers have food nearby) and then wander down the road for a while until we reach our planned motel or destination in early afternoon. Just moving away from the rush a couple hours makes a big difference. I have not waited for charging while on a trip longer than five minutes, and that was only once.

 

[Gaige]

Shasta is a great stop / supercharger area when you reach Northern California. Lots of chargers and a nice mountain town

Lots of chargers once you reach California should have no problems.
- one optimization, look for V3 chargers .. ie: Red Bluffs is the first V3 after Shasta (not the best stop but fast chargers)

 

[USC-Hawk]

Grab some Dutch Bros. on the way down. I believe there is one in Red Bluff.

 

[everydaychris]

Gonna do a video on it! We had a blast.
We went form socal-norcal and stayed in sacramento then went to bend and then dundee and all the way up to multnomah (spelling) falls

Scariest was crater lake as the only charger was at annies gift shop and it was SOOO Slow

but as long you charge up before at the nearest supercharger we had zero issues as we gained range back going down the hill

ABRP

ABetterRouteplanner is the world's most popular consumer EV routeplanner - both for beginner and experienced EV drivers. And of course for anyone curious about EVs.

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USE ABRP to plan everything. It can even estimate for you so if you arrive at x supercharger with 60%, you can put in the ABRP app how much you'll have and it will calculate how much you'll have left after crater lake, etc.

 

[Deleted member 205258]

Gonna do a video on it! We had a blast.
We went form socal-norcal and stayed in sacramento then went to bend and then dundee and all the way up to multnomah (spelling) falls

Scariest was crater lake as the only charger was at annies gift shop and it was SOOO Slow

but as long you charge up before at the nearest supercharger we had zero issues as we gained range back going down the hill

ABRP

ABetterRouteplanner is the world's most popular consumer EV routeplanner - both for beginner and experienced EV drivers. And of course for anyone curious about EVs.

abetterrouteplanner.com

USE ABRP to plan everything. It can even estimate for you so if you arrive at x supercharger with 60%, you can put in the ABRP app how much you'll have and it will calculate how much you'll have left after crater lake, etc.

Hea go up crater lake now!!!!!

 

[avs007]

Gonna do a video on it! We had a blast.
We went form socal-norcal and stayed in sacramento then went to bend and then dundee and all the way up to multnomah (spelling) falls

Scariest was crater lake as the only charger was at annies gift shop and it was SOOO Slow

but as long you charge up before at the nearest supercharger we had zero issues as we gained range back going down the hill

ABRP

ABetterRouteplanner is the world's most popular consumer EV routeplanner - both for beginner and experienced EV drivers. And of course for anyone curious about EVs.

abetterrouteplanner.com

USE ABRP to plan everything. It can even estimate for you so if you arrive at x supercharger with 60%, you can put in the ABRP app how much you'll have and it will calculate how much you'll have left after crater lake, etc.

We stayed at a camground near the North Entrance to Crater Lake. They have NEMA 14-50 outlets in all the sites we stayed at.

 

[Deleted member 205258]

We stayed at a camground near the North Entrance to Crater Lake. They have NEMA 14-50 outlets in all the sites we stayed at.

we stayed at https://www.umpquaslastresort.com...several Tesla's in a row, they all had tents, we had the tiny camper, got a bunch of attention. Most were just up hiking, spending family time, de-COVID-ing. we were trail running around the lake. last day we had the trails to our selves (end of OCT) got cold! gorgeous out there.