Last evening was spent packing until wee hours of the morning. I did it for two reasons, the first being that I wanted to make sure I will fall asleep at the beginning of the flight to help reduce jet lag effects, and the second reason is because that’s when it works best. If I pack too far in advance, then things I regularly use will be packed up already and I’d have to unpack them and would probably forget to pack them back up. When packing, I typically just list out the essentials then figure out how many days worth of socks are needed and then just pack the rest of my wardrobe. One benefit of not having a huge wardrobe is that it hardly filled up my big suitcase. I put stuff I’ll need for the first day in my carryon in case my luggage gets lost.
This morning, I just had to pack a few items up and head out the door. I parked my car at the level 2 Chargepoint near work and ride my scooter to work. At about 3:00p, my car was pretty much fully charged up, so I left work. It works out so slick to ride the scooter and charge my car while working! I unplugged, put the scooter in my back seat, asked God to protect me on my journey, and headed out. According to my OBD reader, the charge was 98% about a mile into the trip. Stats for the pre-Travel Day pre-Travel charge were:
My destination for today was Ezra and Rebekah Fritz’s home in Indianapolis, IN. Conditions for the drive were foggy/rainy at about 55-60F with hardly any wind. ABetterRoutePlanner app suggested going through Ft. Wayne and charging at two different ChargePoint chargers. However, when I planned the route on the desktop version, it said it would be quicker to go through Columbus. Also, I found there was a ~62kW free DCFC in Columbus, so I determined to go that route. On the drive to Columbus I engaged OpenPilot and boy was it chill. I hardly touched the steering wheel aside from initiating lane changes. (until it overheated) Almost no climate control was used during this leg of the journey. Mostly because it was quite comfortable and the windows weren’t fogging up too often. About halfway through, I realized the car was getting better than anticipated efficiency and it could make it all the way to the next charger in Dayton without charging.
My time charging in Dublin was already allocated for some trip excursion planning and I determined that any free charge would replace any paid charging I would do in Dayton. It added 10min to stop at the charger. As I pulled into the lot I realized it was packed. Thankfully one of the chargers were open. An ID.4 was charging at the other station and left very soon after I plugged in. Stats for this charge are here:
The planning session went well and I also used the opportunity to grab out the pumpkin chocolate chip muffins Trinda had packed for my journey and eat two. After the ID.4 finished charging, 2 Model Y’s came by, backed in and tried to figure out how to charge. The first one couldn’t get payment authentication it seemed (they had no adapter ready either) the second was very confusingly looking at his J1772 to NACS adapter trying to figure out to charge his Tesla. They both eventually gave up and left. Finally another Model Y stopped by and the guy actually had the correct CCS to NACS adapter. By that time, I was about done, so I headed on my way. The Comma 2 had cooled off, but the darkness and rain made it roughly useless, but it as it cleared up some, it once again made driving chill.
When I was researching the Dayton charger, I saw a pizza shop nearby, so as I approached the exit, their phone was connected to mine and I ordered dinner. I only needed like a 15min charge, so the plan was to plug in, go into Walmart quick and get some things, come out, unplug, pick up pizza and eat. Unfortunately all the chargers were full when I arrived. So, I went and browsed the Goodwill nearby, hit the restroom before picking up my pizza and eating it while charging at the recently in-occupied charger. Had some trouble getting the charge started since my CC expired soon. I added another card and it worked. Pizza was a 6” pepperoni one and was scarfed down quickly. It got a 8.5/10. A quick Walmart run was in order yet to get some water, a water bottle, and some batteries for an AirTag. I charged longer than I wanted to, but that’s ok. Stats for this session are here:
OpenPilot was enabled for most of the remainder of the drive and it caught me nodding off a few times and yelled at me to wake up. I arrived safely to my destination around 9:45p.
My stats for the trip:
- Total distance: exactly 300miles on the odometer
- Energy: 83.5kWh (minus some energy used before I recorded the screen)
- Average efficiency: 3.488 mi/kWh
- Cost: $21.29 (7.1 cents/mi)
Got things organized and ready for tomorrow morning, showered and setup this blog so hopefully I will journal my journey and remember it in the future.
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