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Mother's Day gift

Discussion in 'Tesla' started by bwilson4web, May 11, 2021.

  1. bwilson4web

    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    May 6 - called Mom to confirm she would be in Coffeyville over the weekend.

    May 8 - Fully charged, estimated range 232 miles, started at 3:15 AM for Memphis. Used 'speed limit' to reach chargers. Thereafter, hopped to arrive at ~4 PM:
    • Memphis; Brinkley AR; Little Rock; Ozark AR; Lowell AR, and Joplin MO.
    Mom's house was way too warm so I got a room at the Best Western, pet friendly, and got a good night's sleep. Interesting, it appears the ends of each motel have one, live 120 VAC outlet. So the car added 30 miles while I slept.

    May 9 - Attended Sunday services with Mom. That afternoon, attempted Zoom with brothers but still find the Android-Zoom interface 'obscure.' I'll reverse engineer a user's manual and share with everyone. I have an unfriendly opinion about an App that requires a home-brew manual to use <GERRRRR>. By 3 PM, headed home in the reverse set of SuperCharger stations. There were a lot of road construction delays.

    At Memphis, I was very tired and took a cat nap while charging using the cell phone as an alarm clock. I wanted to reach home but stopped at Cornith EVconnect station to put an L2 charge enough to reach home.

    Long weekend, my Mother's Day gift.

    Bob Wilson
     
    #1 bwilson4web, May 11, 2021
  2. hill

    hill High Fiber Member

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    Same gift ... 34 miles one way trip. Volt EPA's ~53 miles - BUT with I 5 traffic averaging 40-45mph both up & back? The 68 round trip mile journey left us with 5 EV miles still! Not bad - for a no longer USA available model. Now - once we sell out of SoCal this summer, move into our Montana house it will be interesting to see how the RAV4 Prime EPA stands up - 1, 250 miles, 20 hours, crossing the continental divide, during winter, to spend Christmas with mom & family.
     
    #2 hill, May 12, 2021
  3. mikefocke

    mikefocke Prius v Three 2012, Avalon 2011

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    Wait a minute folks. You are satisfied with that? Today with a big delay 4.5 hours, 255 miles. Both worst case. One pee stop on the way there in a hybrid. One gas/pee stop on the way back in normal times. None of this nap or 30 mile change stuff.
     
    #3 mikefocke, May 12, 2021
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