On the day you did 600 miles with two stops, what did the stops entail? Did you charge and for how long?
Lessons Learned on Range Anxiety
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We charged at fast chargers. The Lightning has a 400v battery, so it is a slower-charging battery than is likely with the Scout, which is anticipated to have an 800v battery.
Stop one was to add 50% or so to the battery. It took 30 minutes. We walked across the highway to the place with clean restrooms and left as soon as we got back to the vehicle.
At stop two, we got lunch, which took longer than we'd anticipated and we left as soon as we got back to the vehicle. We added about 69% to the battery and it took 43 minutes.
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I agree. We also had lower than usual efficiency because we were climbing mountains and it was colder, windier, and more weatherly than our typical road trip temperatures.
/Shrug
It's been a great trip so far.
Summary: Another great day of driving through beautiful country. The total drive time was 8 hours compared with Google's estimate of 7 hours that morning. We encountered very slow traffic going through the mountain passes, several disabled vehicles slowing traffic along the way, and an accident at one of our exits off the I-5 that delayed us at least 15 minutes.
This leg of our trip was from Redding, CA to Vancouver, WA, about 450 miles total. We had a late breakfast with family and didn't get on the road until about 10:30.
Three hours later, we stopped in Grants Pass for a 50% charge-up, restroom break and more than a few minutes talking to brand-T owners who were interested in getting out of their vehicles and into a different brand vehicle. I had one conversation and my partner had a separate conversation about how these somewhat random, curious drivers were looking at other vehicles and they were surprised that the Lightning could charge at the Supercharger stations. One seemed sold. I should send a marketing bill to Ford.
We spent 30 minutes there when we really only planned to spend about 20-25. Part of the charm of charging is meeting so many different people who are at least passingly curious about cars.
The second stop, 2.5 hours later, was much shorter since we didn't need more than about 10-20% boost to make sure that any surprises we encountered weren't going to cause us range issues. We spent 9 minutes charging, which wasn't really enough even for a restroom break. We were off the highway for about 12 minutes total--this station is right off the freeway.
Just after we arrived the station got busy and since we were only going another 110 miles, we decided we didn't need to stay longer than about 50% charge.
We arrived at our destination with about 15% state of charge. Where we're staying has pay-to-use Level 2 chargers, and they're slow. We're working during the day for the next several days, so we'll be fully charged before we do any fun runs in the afternoons or evenings.
This part of the drive also included lots of elevation changes and since I have a few minutes, here's a map and elevation profile.
This leg of our trip was from Redding, CA to Vancouver, WA, about 450 miles total. We had a late breakfast with family and didn't get on the road until about 10:30.
Three hours later, we stopped in Grants Pass for a 50% charge-up, restroom break and more than a few minutes talking to brand-T owners who were interested in getting out of their vehicles and into a different brand vehicle. I had one conversation and my partner had a separate conversation about how these somewhat random, curious drivers were looking at other vehicles and they were surprised that the Lightning could charge at the Supercharger stations. One seemed sold. I should send a marketing bill to Ford.
We spent 30 minutes there when we really only planned to spend about 20-25. Part of the charm of charging is meeting so many different people who are at least passingly curious about cars.
The second stop, 2.5 hours later, was much shorter since we didn't need more than about 10-20% boost to make sure that any surprises we encountered weren't going to cause us range issues. We spent 9 minutes charging, which wasn't really enough even for a restroom break. We were off the highway for about 12 minutes total--this station is right off the freeway.
Just after we arrived the station got busy and since we were only going another 110 miles, we decided we didn't need to stay longer than about 50% charge.
We arrived at our destination with about 15% state of charge. Where we're staying has pay-to-use Level 2 chargers, and they're slow. We're working during the day for the next several days, so we'll be fully charged before we do any fun runs in the afternoons or evenings.
This part of the drive also included lots of elevation changes and since I have a few minutes, here's a map and elevation profile.
It’s great that you are providing this play by play of your trip. It really helps to learn about “a day in the life of an EV”. Thanks for your time and effort in documenting for those of us completely new to EV driving/ownership
This start of this route leads me to an important question, did you visit Lassen Volcanic National Park?
I snapped a pic of this nice little 4X4 Camper set up while in the park (not an EV LOL):
I snapped a pic of this nice little 4X4 Camper set up while in the park (not an EV LOL):
Not this trip. We have family in Redding, so we've gone to Lassen in the past and intend to go again in the future.
I'm glad it's been helpful. I've been worried about hijacking the thread. I'll continue posting when I have relevant information. We're working for the next several days, so while we have a few short outings and errands, they won't add much to the mileage of this trip--maybe 200-300 miles. On the weekend we have a long 1300 mile push home. That will likely be two more days of driving.
If you do more trips or someone else wants to do this make a new thread like “real life trip tracker” would be great and others can log trips too. Would give future members a spot to go if they are EV leery
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I will often do a trip write-up at the end of my trips. I'll start a thread about this trip. Will copy-paste some of the text from here.
Wanted to pile onto the “I’m finding this really helpful and informative” comments. Maybe it would be helpful to have a thread somewhere to do an AMA about taking an extended road trip, too? It’s really helpful to see what you do in the context of imagery to get an idea of what can be done!
Y'all are reading my mind. I had thought about a thread "I own an EV that's similar to the Scouts--AMA."
I think you found it, but here it is:
This gives the long range Western and West Coast Scouts some real world scenarios. Us East Coasters think 100 miles is a very long way.
Agreed, the more @SpaceEVDriver posts, the more I learn - thanks for the effort. Driving from the Denver area to Fairplay tomorrow in the snow, and will be topping off the gas tank before I go in case of delays, 4wd use, etc.. Based on your posts I am thinking I would do the same with my future Scout and just stop worrying about it, and I'm continuing to wonder if the Harvester option will be necessary....
I will continue to say that many that get the Harvester will end up thinking they really do not need it. But, if it brings more people to the Scout brand the more the merrier!
Agreed. I wouldn't get the Harvester, but I would totally understand why someone might.
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