When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
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I see a lot of teens wearing some of the worst clothing trends of the 90s. That stuff deserved to die out.
I've done that drive to Orlando straight through a couple times when I was in college. That Wafflehouse breakfast in Chattanooga really hits the spot around 5AM.
We are leaving Friday for our drive from Ames to Miami, according to google maps its 23.5 hours. Hope to get down past Atlanta and then find a hotel to crash, and finish it up on Saturday.
Wife keeps telling me we cannot drive that far with our grand daughters in the back, and I keep telling her the further we drive on Friday, means the less we have to drive on Saturday. We have three of us to drive, myself, wife and daughter. This is going to be an advantage.
Wife keeps telling me we cannot drive that far with our grand daughters in the back, and I keep telling her the further we drive on Friday, means the less we have to drive on Saturday. We have three of us to drive, myself, wife and daughter. This is going to be an advantage.
I plugged osage beach into mine and it said 1 hr 15 mins for charging when I was at 75% to start. It had me ending with 12%. I don't know that I would trust Fords software that much. If I were to try it, I would plan on stops in Knoxville, kirksville and columbia. I would not plan on using anything less than 125 kw chargers. I plan on 1.8mi/kwhr going 75mph and 2-2.2 mi/kwhr going 60 in the summer.
Why are you going to Knoxville instead of 163 to Pella and down to Ottumwa and then straight south?
Is it possible that his route plan is better than yours?
Could be, but last I heard the mile long bridge is out, so you cannot go that way, and you are taking 2 lane roads going through Knoxville as opposed to a 4 lane road through Pella and down.
Why does it matter to you anyway, I just wondered why he was going through Knoxville
Pella and osky have 50 kw chargers, Knoxville has a 350 & 180 kw charger. It's also less miles. The stop in Knoxville may not even be needed, but 175 miles to kirksville would get the range anxiety going in a lightning.
I always add my little Nissan Leaf updates so here we go…in Colorado you can lease a Leaf for $1300 down and $9/month for 24 months. Guess we should have waited…we’re paying $19/month.
Nissan has a backlog of Leafs and the EV incentives are disappearing .
Nissan has a backlog of Leafs and the EV incentives are disappearing .
Not trying to be a jerk here, but since I do not own an EV, is it strange or takes some time planning a trip like this by fast charging locations? I mean, a trip from DM to Osage beach would be well within the range of an ICE or Hybrid vehicle only refueling once you get there. Is the savings on gas worth the extra time and planning?
Why are you going through ottumwa? You'd save like 2 minutes by going on Monroe Wapello road.
Better highways, four lane all the way down to you get to the round about to go to Bloomfield. Throw in the fact you can easily drive over 70 on 163, sure can't do that on the Knoxville route.
It'd be no more time consuming than plugging the destination into Google Maps to get the directions.
Short answer is its worth it to me.
I took a few minutes to plug a generic location to a place I've never been into an app. It gave me 4 routes and I went with the 1st one. With a little knowledge of a lightning I gave a quick opinion of what I would look into trying. The funny thing is, I could be way off on the destination, but its not about the destination, its about the journey.
Probably depends on how frequently you drive this far in a year. Our household only makes this kind of drive once a year.
I’m never msking that drive again. Driving to the Pop Tarts bowl, the traffic from Chattanooga to about 4 hours past Atlanta was just brutal.
Like I said in an earlier post of what we did. Leave 3-4 am and have them sleeping. It will get you 4 hours in before they even wake up. Make lunch your first stop/fuel stop.
That is my plan, pack up the luggage tomorrow and we plan on being on the road by 4:00 AM. Get outside of St. Louis and stop for gas and go to the RR.
They road well when we road tripped out to S. Carolina a couple of years ago, and are now 11 and 9. they have their tablets, and headphones, plus one will be in the 2nd row and the smallest all they in the 3rd row. Hopefully keeping the grab ass to a minimum.
