We rested properly on the Sprinhill Suites and headed off in hope of constructing it house in sooner or later. Karen actually isn’t properly and is sleeping 20 out of 24 hours every day. I’m eager to get house.
Tulsa to Van Buren
We headed off and obtained the advantage of properly maintained toll roads once more. After rejoining I-40 the going wasn’t as comfy. The vehicles navigation wished me to cost at Ozark which is simply past Van Buren. Since we knew we might make the stretch from Brinkley to Van Buren with out stopping it appeared to make extra sense to cease at Van Buren as a substitute. This turned out to be a mistake, I ought to have trusted the navigations suggestion. The automobile indicated it might take 40 minutes to cost to get to Brinkley. That is too lengthy so we left after simply 7 minutes of charging and headed to Ozark.
Van Buren to Ozark
It was simply thirty minutes to Ozark. The Ozark supercharger is the perfect we visited your entire journey. Its situated at a Journey Heart, so near bogs and a comfort retailer. What set this station other than others is that the truck cease additionally added each trash cans and windscreen washing squeegees. Some areas have trash cans, like Buc’ees, however this location is the one one I’ve visited ever that had a option to clear your windscreen. That is one thing nearly each fuel station supplies to their fossil gas clients. It’s actually a wanted comfort for electrical automotive drivers as properly.
Ozark to Brinkley
Now we’re again in Arkansas we will cruise in consolation on properly maintained highways. This leg was fairly lengthy at 1 1/2 hours and I used to be completely happy to stretch my legs at Brinkley.
Brinkley to Jackson TN
It was an amazing feeling cruising by the “Welcome to Tennessee” signal. The welcome was temporary as we have been on I-40 in Memphis a black mercedes travelling at very excessive speeds minimize throughout a number of lanes and nearly aspect swiped us. I noticed the automobile in my peripheral imaginative and prescient and swerved out of my lane to keep away from a catastrophe. I assume the motive force was working from the legislation. Karen wasn’t certain how we weren’t hit by the automotive it got here so shut. Welcome again to Tennessee certainly. A 20 minute cost at Jackson gave us sufficient power to get house.
Residence ultimately – nearly 4,000 miles pushed!
We arrived house at 9pm. We had no milk to make a cup of tea and I used to be too drained to go by the shop. I regarded on the journey meter. We had pushed simply shy of 4,000 miles. We used over one megawatt of electrical energy. Our effectivity of 272 Wh/Mile was fairly good given we travelled very quick on some interstates. 272 Wh/mile equates to three.6 miles per kWh. We averaged simply over 300 miles per day, that’s lots of driving.
Supercharging is about six instances dearer when in comparison with charging at house. On our final journey to Florida we saved fairly a bit charging at motels. On this journey there have been only a few motels out west that offered complementary EV charging, those that did had costly lodging. We by no means had the advantage of charging at a resort vacation spot charger your entire 13 days we have been on the highway. I suppose there are simply fewer EV’s within the wilderness out west.
The automotive was charged by 2am the following morning. It was prepared for an additional highway journey. We’ll give it a wee whereas earlier than embarking on our subsequent highway journey. Our ideas are to go to Niagara Falls within the fall and possibly go to Maine as properly.