So to all you EV luddites, my elderly parents will be driving their EV from the Austin suburbs to San Jose, CA, yet again. This is a minimum 3,416 mile round trip using mostly Interstate highways, not counting driving around at the destination and so forth, plus getting to charging stations and hotels and so forth. Distince calculated using Google Maps from their actual home address to the nearest relative home address in the Bay Area, and using the I-5 route instead of the Coast route to get from the Los Angeles area. The whole trip will probably be closer to 4000 miles and that's assuming they don't head up into Oregon to visit friends, or take the coast route to visit their nephew/my cousin.
I, personally, would probably fly as there is direct service from AUS-SJC on multiple airlines, but hey they are retired and have the time, and they love road trips. Having school age children, that pretty much dictates when I can go, but my parents have no such constraints.
It will be colder this time as compared to when they drove out west in June, so that will be interesting how it effects their effective range. At home they charge to 80% but on the road they were charging to 100% every time last time, even though it wasn't strictly necessary to reach the next stop on many of their drive intervals. They were just more comfortable spending the extra time to charge to 100% every time.
They got 3 years free charging at Electrify America up front with the purchase of the vehicle, so I would expect they'd use that for the vast majority of their charging. Max DC fast charging rate on the ID.4 is 135kwh for all models, so it's a little slower than the Tesla max rate at superchargers.
They also have an adapter for the Tesla destination chargers at hotels and so forth.
Vehicle in question is a 2022 VW ID.4 Pro S RWD, battery capacity 82KWH, 201 HP, 229 lb ft. All specifications:
https://media.vw.com/assets/documents/original/15190-2022ID4TechSpecsFinalnoMPGe.pdf
I, personally, would probably fly as there is direct service from AUS-SJC on multiple airlines, but hey they are retired and have the time, and they love road trips. Having school age children, that pretty much dictates when I can go, but my parents have no such constraints.
It will be colder this time as compared to when they drove out west in June, so that will be interesting how it effects their effective range. At home they charge to 80% but on the road they were charging to 100% every time last time, even though it wasn't strictly necessary to reach the next stop on many of their drive intervals. They were just more comfortable spending the extra time to charge to 100% every time.
They got 3 years free charging at Electrify America up front with the purchase of the vehicle, so I would expect they'd use that for the vast majority of their charging. Max DC fast charging rate on the ID.4 is 135kwh for all models, so it's a little slower than the Tesla max rate at superchargers.
They also have an adapter for the Tesla destination chargers at hotels and so forth.
Vehicle in question is a 2022 VW ID.4 Pro S RWD, battery capacity 82KWH, 201 HP, 229 lb ft. All specifications:
https://media.vw.com/assets/documents/original/15190-2022ID4TechSpecsFinalnoMPGe.pdf
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