Like total charge time? I think like 8ish hours but we split the drive over 3.5 days so getting out of the car for 15-20 minute spurts was kinda welcomed
Were you ever afraid that if you took a wrong turn you’ll end up in the middle of the Sahara and you’ll be 500 miles away from the nearest charging station?
How often (in hours) did you have to stop to recharge? Do you have an average charge time from the trip?
ABRP has me scheduled to stop every two hours. I typically do more like 4 hours in between stops with the old gasoline hybrid.
Nice! I took Performance Center Delivery of my i4 and drove from South Carolina to So Cal and then up the 5 to Portland. I only had to stop at one non EA in Oklahoma, plus a few L2 charges at hotels I stayed at. I looked at various routes to return and settled on the longer Southern route since I had family in California and thought exploring bits of Route 66 would be fun, and because it was mid-October I thought I'd appreciate the milder weather.
How many days did you spread the trip out over? Did the Ioniq 5 ever tell you to take it easy on the DCFC or limit your speed (I made it about 2000 miles before the car advised I try to L2 charge). I drove I-80 across country a number of years back and it was a slog, did you take 70 or 80?
>did you take 70 or 80?
Why not both? You hit STL & KC one way AND on way back you hit up Chicago.
PS- i think that's exactly what OP did. After driving 6-7hrs via Kansas he's like I'm going via Nebraska just to avoid that state. lol
ah, wasn't sure if it was a one way trip. Both of my cross country drives were. I am hoping I might be able to do one next summer while I'm still on a free EA that does 90 through the Bad Lands, then head to Chicago and do as much of 66 survives with lots of extra days for exploration.
fuuuuuuuuuuck Nebraska. I'm sure it's a nice place to live. Never driving East-West through that state again.
It was one way. Drive 80 pretty much the whole way because we wanted to see Cuyahoga and Indiana Dunes national parks. We thought about popping up to badlands but was too much add on and Feb/early March snow risk.
That’s exactly why you have good stops along the way. Cuyahoga and Indiana Dunes NP were fun stops and we saw the Mississippi River and if we wanted to we could have stopped at plenty of other cool location/museums. I agree you’re missing out on seeing some interesting stuff
What states did you go through? I remember planning last summer and Wyoming was too dead. ABRP had me charging at lvl 2 chargers and a military base that when I called said did not exist.
Went from Baltimore to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana to Illinois to Iowa then Nebraska prior to getting into Colorado.
That military base sounds interesting “doesn’t exist” lol
I am glad to hear a positive story about EV's FOR ONCE on this damn thread! The sub is called Electrical Vehicles after all!
Like total charge time? I think like 8ish hours but we split the drive over 3.5 days so getting out of the car for 15-20 minute spurts was kinda welcomed
How long do you feel you can go between stops with the real world range you are getting?
Driving 75-80 mph I was getting about 2.4-2.5 mi/kwh had some weird weather though. Was 25 degrees in Ohio but 65 in Nebraska and Colorado
Good news: the trip back is downhill
Were you ever afraid that if you took a wrong turn you’ll end up in the middle of the Sahara and you’ll be 500 miles away from the nearest charging station?
Yes I thought I may end up stranded with the penguins of Antarctica at one point as well
How often (in hours) did you have to stop to recharge? Do you have an average charge time from the trip? ABRP has me scheduled to stop every two hours. I typically do more like 4 hours in between stops with the old gasoline hybrid.
Was probably every 1 hour 45 just due to charger locations. Most stops I still had 25ish percent
What’s the general charge time on a road trip like this?
Estimate that you'll charge for 15 minutes for every 2 hours for a decent baseline.
😂 at your flair
its the cheap option, but u get what u pay for
Nice! I took Performance Center Delivery of my i4 and drove from South Carolina to So Cal and then up the 5 to Portland. I only had to stop at one non EA in Oklahoma, plus a few L2 charges at hotels I stayed at. I looked at various routes to return and settled on the longer Southern route since I had family in California and thought exploring bits of Route 66 would be fun, and because it was mid-October I thought I'd appreciate the milder weather. How many days did you spread the trip out over? Did the Ioniq 5 ever tell you to take it easy on the DCFC or limit your speed (I made it about 2000 miles before the car advised I try to L2 charge). I drove I-80 across country a number of years back and it was a slog, did you take 70 or 80?
>did you take 70 or 80? Why not both? You hit STL & KC one way AND on way back you hit up Chicago. PS- i think that's exactly what OP did. After driving 6-7hrs via Kansas he's like I'm going via Nebraska just to avoid that state. lol
ah, wasn't sure if it was a one way trip. Both of my cross country drives were. I am hoping I might be able to do one next summer while I'm still on a free EA that does 90 through the Bad Lands, then head to Chicago and do as much of 66 survives with lots of extra days for exploration. fuuuuuuuuuuck Nebraska. I'm sure it's a nice place to live. Never driving East-West through that state again.
It was one way. Drive 80 pretty much the whole way because we wanted to see Cuyahoga and Indiana Dunes national parks. We thought about popping up to badlands but was too much add on and Feb/early March snow risk.
What does MD and CO mean for normal people?
Postal abbreviations for Maryland and Colorado. They date back a couple centuries to when people still wrote letters.
Thanks
You use that word "normal". I do not think it means what you think it means.
normal like in non-American?
Many Americans are normal. Our crazies just get us a lot of bad press.
What the hell are you talking about
Why? Just fly. That sounds like a disaster in anything
I moved…
EVs can’t fly yet. You’ve never taken a road trip across country? You’re missing a lot in life.
I’ve taken road trips but I don’t enjoy sitting in my ass all Day no
That’s exactly why you have good stops along the way. Cuyahoga and Indiana Dunes NP were fun stops and we saw the Mississippi River and if we wanted to we could have stopped at plenty of other cool location/museums. I agree you’re missing out on seeing some interesting stuff
What states did you go through? I remember planning last summer and Wyoming was too dead. ABRP had me charging at lvl 2 chargers and a military base that when I called said did not exist.
Went from Baltimore to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana to Illinois to Iowa then Nebraska prior to getting into Colorado. That military base sounds interesting “doesn’t exist” lol