I was heading to a gathering of friends on the Keweenaw Peninsula. I didn't want to do this as a single long day, so I added a detour along the entire length of M-22 through the Leelanau Peninsula. This was my first foray into a area with limited charging or long gaps between chargers along...
Returning Home from Grand Junction, CO. Base distance is 1500 miles.
Day 1
I left Grand Junction with a high state of charge as I could use a NEMA 14-50 plug on the outside of my sister's place. Then charger hopping to Fort Collins, CO. I got a decent charge at the EA at in Target in...
Just saw this from State of Charge.
Ford will now be shipping the Lectron CCS1 to NACS adapter to customers.
I wonder why the OEMs don't seem to like A2Z.
ETA: I tried to find a Ford release on this, but the best I have so far I got from Mach-E VLog, and that is a listing on the adapter on...
Base distance was 985 miles. I had a plan from before the trip using A Better Route Planner, but I was having issues adjusting the charging stops to the ones I wanted. There was also some confusion on which Tesla stops would work with the Mach-E. (Review shows the confusion was mostly...
Base trip is 900 miles. I planned the trip using A Better Route Planner. Since I have a NACS to CCS1 adapter, ABRP proposed 6 charging stops with 5 of those Tesla. This routing was more direct than the CCS-only routing and avoided Chicago.
The first stop was at a Meijer in Fort Wayne, IN. I...
Monday, I did a short trip to test DCFC for my new MME Rally. (I know this is old hat for most here, but it might be interesting to some.)
First test was a local Tesla Supercharger with Magic Dock. I had just seen a YT video using a Magic Dock without needing the Tesla app. This test was to...