Webleyaz
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100% soc leaving home. Bishop, CA RAN was the first stop. Quite nice! All the way to Vegas from there! Rolled in to the Winco charger on fumes. Overnight at the comfort in for $190. Too much but whatever. Kingman in the morning and Flagstaff for a few electrons before hitting Show Low. Piece of cake. Chill for a week.
Again, 100% departure status. Flagstaff, Kingman, Vegas and decision time.
This decision was nearly the end of me. I refused to spend $380 for the same damn room as the previous weekend. Vegas. It's dynamic. Up to the Beatty motel 6. NDOT 6.6kw ac charger is right in the same parking lot next to the broken 50kw "fast" charger. Beatty is still on the way back to Bishop but I wanted to see if I could get back via the 95 to save about 35 miles and possibly avoid charging over night in Beatty in the future since Bishop is uphill from Vegas and I barely made it going the downhill direction.
Tonopah's NDOT charger claimed to have charged a vehicle just the day before so that's where I was headed. Right there on the side of the road was a 50kw charger that refused to charge my truck. A middle-eastern fellow answering the 888 number even rebooted it to no avail. OK, on to Luning. A pair of ev connect chargers looked out of place at the trading post but I didn't have to stare at them long since they were both flashing "cash only" on Sunday with no one in sight. Hawthorne's NDOT unit must be functional, no? No. This one actually says "out of service." Well, then, I'll grab 40 minutes worth from the 6.6kw unit and see if the ev connect unit in Shurz which appears to have charged something hours ago is truly working. 68 miles on the guess-o-meter and 31 uphill miles to Shurz. Let's go! With 26 miles of range left, the sign I recognized from a reviewer's post came into view. To me, the Shurz charger is remote. It's about the first man-made object as you're rolling up to Shurz. At the end of the dirt parking lot of a dispensary. Someone had scrawled "use ev connect app to start charging" in sharpie right on the front of each charger since neither of the readers were functioning. I tried this but apparently I hadn't set up a payment method in my account so nothing happened including a notification of why nothing happened. F. I called the number Google supplied and Maria became my superman. She started the charger and the electrons began to flow. Part of the hour and 33 minutes were passed by chatting with a very nice couple in a Tesla MY towing an awesome little Canadian trailer who stopped in for quick jolt with a ccs-nacs adapter. The last 121 miles seemed so peaceful and stress-free.
I'm not sure what the moral of this story is or even if there is one but I can tell you Beatty to Shurz charger is possible.
Again, 100% departure status. Flagstaff, Kingman, Vegas and decision time.
This decision was nearly the end of me. I refused to spend $380 for the same damn room as the previous weekend. Vegas. It's dynamic. Up to the Beatty motel 6. NDOT 6.6kw ac charger is right in the same parking lot next to the broken 50kw "fast" charger. Beatty is still on the way back to Bishop but I wanted to see if I could get back via the 95 to save about 35 miles and possibly avoid charging over night in Beatty in the future since Bishop is uphill from Vegas and I barely made it going the downhill direction.
Tonopah's NDOT charger claimed to have charged a vehicle just the day before so that's where I was headed. Right there on the side of the road was a 50kw charger that refused to charge my truck. A middle-eastern fellow answering the 888 number even rebooted it to no avail. OK, on to Luning. A pair of ev connect chargers looked out of place at the trading post but I didn't have to stare at them long since they were both flashing "cash only" on Sunday with no one in sight. Hawthorne's NDOT unit must be functional, no? No. This one actually says "out of service." Well, then, I'll grab 40 minutes worth from the 6.6kw unit and see if the ev connect unit in Shurz which appears to have charged something hours ago is truly working. 68 miles on the guess-o-meter and 31 uphill miles to Shurz. Let's go! With 26 miles of range left, the sign I recognized from a reviewer's post came into view. To me, the Shurz charger is remote. It's about the first man-made object as you're rolling up to Shurz. At the end of the dirt parking lot of a dispensary. Someone had scrawled "use ev connect app to start charging" in sharpie right on the front of each charger since neither of the readers were functioning. I tried this but apparently I hadn't set up a payment method in my account so nothing happened including a notification of why nothing happened. F. I called the number Google supplied and Maria became my superman. She started the charger and the electrons began to flow. Part of the hour and 33 minutes were passed by chatting with a very nice couple in a Tesla MY towing an awesome little Canadian trailer who stopped in for quick jolt with a ccs-nacs adapter. The last 121 miles seemed so peaceful and stress-free.
I'm not sure what the moral of this story is or even if there is one but I can tell you Beatty to Shurz charger is possible.
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