DCFC on a recent trip

I saw some comments regarding concern about traveling with the Bolt. The only concern is with charging speeds and whether or not you want to spend vacation time charging the car (no available L2 at motel).

What’s not in the images are 2 1hr+ charging sessions to 80% at the destination using EA stations. I don’t have an account pass, paid with CC, and didn’t email receipts. The 3 shown are all Tesla.

This, though, is largely what you can expect. Charging speeds aren’t great but not unexpected. About 30kW on average, I think. I went above 50% on all of these. 50% is where it tapers. Below 50% I range anywhere from starting at 19kW and slowly tapering up, to starting at 30-40kW at other times.

The worst, I have to say, was how dim the bulbs are on mountain roads with no lights. Not something I noticed before in urban/suburban/rural areas and may just be an indication that I need to put in new lights. A front end disassembly is not something I want to tackle to replace bulbs.

Also ABRP needs some serious work for actual live routing and live data with rapidly changing conditions and patterns.