alarmguy
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Ok, so here is the number. He left a little after 8:30 this Sunday morning and arrived 175 miles later at Buc-ee's sometime after 11AMIt should not take much longer to drive his EV. Start with a full charge and stop once for 15 minutes.
The question is, can he charge at home and can he charge at your place? I would not own an EV if I couldn't charge at home.
Using my car as an example, I would charge to 95% or 100% the night before, drive most of the way depending on how I feel and Supercharger location, stop for 15 minute charge, Bio break and snack, and end up at your place.
Here's my home to LA on the Anywhere App.
Here's the BMW app.
Interstate here is fast, typically I drive at 83 MPH but I assume my son does closer to 78ish on a 70 mph road. But then again, what do I know? *LOL*
Anyway, 175 miles his BMW said he had 98 miles left when he arrived at Buc-ee's where he is at this moment going to charge to full on a Mercedes Super Charger. (I forgot to ask if he left with a full change. I assume he did> Car tells him it will be a little over an hour to full charge. There are 10 Mercedes Chargers there and at least 10 or more Tesla super chargers.
Once fully charged he will head to our house about 85 miles.
I don't think he bought anything to charge while at our house. Will be leaving Monday and I suspect charge up at Buc-ee's again.
Of course like all of them the car tells him where other chargers are but going to Buc-ee's is an experience unto it own and you KNOW if it is a Buc-ee's it works. The masses of people is amazing at this interstate stop chain I am guessing in addition to the chargers there must be 40 ish gas pumps. I tried counting them at one time, not possible.
Happy Fathers Day to all!
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Car charged to full at the hour mark or something a little less. It was fully charged at 12:22 and he arrived sometime after 11.
It charged eight minutes faster than the car indicated it would or something like that.
I didn’t even know Mercedes has the equivalent in superchargers?
Don’t know all the details as my son isn’t even that up-to-date on everything. He just mentioned something about over 400 kW.
Also note the weather is hot and of course the air conditioning in the car is constantly running
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