It's been awhile. so many popping up.
As soon as we get those chargers, it is epic road trip for me.
As soon as we get those chargers, it is epic road trip for me.
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I had a trip to the Grand Canyon planned two years in a row (hotels and everything) that I have canceled because of the Supercharger situation. Even with my 85 I'd be cutting it too close (with kids in tow you can't be risky).
I bought my X with the dream of cruising the golden circle of National parks, but charging is still too challenging to make it a epic vacation.
I'd like to hit Bryce, but that's not looking too practical without staying at a campground, which isn't going to happen. Arches looks very easy. Hope to try that within a year or so.
Not that more well-located L2 charge stations inside the park wouldn't be nice, but Yellowstone is already pretty well served with Supercharger Stations, in Billings MT, West Yellowstone MT, and Jackson WY....I will nominate a few parks to start the "First Ten" list:
Great Smoky Mountain
Everglades
Yellowstone
Yosemite
As I write this list it occurs to me that some parks (Joshua Tree) have easy access to nearby public charging infrastructure. Others (Yellowstone, Yosemite Valley) are places where visitors may want to stay for a week or more without leaving the park to find a public charger. Some parks won't need to install chargers in the park. Others will need to install chargers, and quickly, for EV drivers staying at campgrounds and parking at trailheads to access the backcountry.
I'll stop here pending input from other members.
Laura
A supercharger is planned for kayenta, which will help the flagstaff to blanding trek when visiting monument valley and archesWe've just completed a road trip with 3 cars... X75D with a stowaway box on the back, SP85 with a skybox21 on top, and an i3Rex with a couple of Jerry cans in the trunk. We stayed in airbnbs and tricky charged the i3 at night on L1 wasn't there Teslas exclusively on superchargers. We had lots of great as we were relocating across country and we're landing in an unfurnished house.
We started in the Bay area and visited:
Yosemite
Fresno
Death valley
Las Vegas
Grand canyon Skywalk
Flagstaff
Grand canyon visitors center
Horseshoe bend
Monument valley
Moab
Arches national Park
Eventually to the Denver region.
Everything worked fine even in on a 128 degree day in death valley... With only the following issues:
* The Tesla usage prediction failed to identify that the car was heavy. This should have been calculable due to expected energy use, actual energy use and elevation change. As a result the car thought we were fine going in to death valley (downhill) but we weren't. We climbed out of death valley at half the speed limit and made the supercharger with 4 miles range left. A supercharger in death valley would have been nice.
* Supercharger handles are really hot in full sun when the outdoor temperature is over 120 degrees.
* Detouring to superchargers around death valley cost an extra hour or two of driving.
* Detouring to superchargers going to the Grand canyon Skywalk also cost an extra hour of driving.
* Page to blanding was ok for us although we were a bit conservative in the beginning. Another supercharger there would be nice.
Other than the death valley detour and the Skywalk Detroit the Teslas were faster with supercharging than the i3 was with rexing. The i3 had to go pretty slowly so it could burn gas fast enough to maintain some charge.
Ultimately the road trip worked and was enjoyable due to the superchargers... But still an adventure.