Sylvia
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Been thinking of driving part of the Skyline Drive again when our 3 comes in (coming from MD). Seems like Strasburg would be helpful, have you driven further south to comment on other charger options?
I've driven up and down 81 a good number of times this year. The Lexington charger is about 110 miles from Strasburg, if going straight down 81. If you add the length of Skyline Drive in, you are looking at closer to 155 miles. I typically charge to 135-150 miles depending on the season for the route down 81 (I like to keep 15-20% surplus when I arrive somewhere). Adding in Skyline I would think closer to a 200 mile charge would be needed to ensure surplus in Lexington.
Lexington's charge is in a Holiday Inn parking lot behind an Applebee's with a Dairy Queen next door. I have many times run into others at the charger there. If it is a weekend, at times I have seen buses parked blocking a couple of the chargers. I've never had to wait to charge though.
Even though there isn't a charger on Tesla's coming soon map, I do believe there will be another charger about 1/2 between Lexington and Strasburg sometime next year. I'm basing that off the Sheetz website that shows an EV charger at one of their stores in that region. I drove down there a few weeks ago, and there was no charger being installed yet. Also on the Sheetz site it indicates an EV charger at one of their Frederick MD locations. I see Tesla's page does now show a coming soon indicator for Frederick.