West Bound - Day 5

It was a short day today, only 482 miles. We went through some serious cross winds, a dust storm, and rain. We also sat in traffic for half an hour East of Tucson because four people's cars touched and made a big mess.

When we got to Indio we drove around some to look at what's there. The places we wanted to look at turned out to be gated communities and the places that weren't gated we didn't want to look at. Does anyone know why RV parks need to be gated? There must be hundreds of them here...

Looking at the total consumption for the trip, we used 1,521 kWh of electrical energy to go 5,500 miles. Since a gallon of gasoline has 33.7 kWh of energy in it, we used the equivalent of 45.1 gallons of gas so far to go the 5500 miles!  That's the equivalent of 121.9 miles per gallon.

We are so ready to be home tomorrow! So much laundry to do...

Here's our route today:

Our route so far:

Our drive and charge details:

Totals for the day:
481.6 miles, 125.8 kWh, 261 Wh/mi (3.83 miles/kWh)
07:38 - 14:22 (but one last time zone) so 7 hours 44 minutes trip time, not including our driving around in Indio.
Actual drive time was 6 hrs, 50 minutes (70.47 mph)

Totals for the trip:
5,500.3 miles, 1,521 kWh 277 Wh/mi (3.61 miles/kWh)
102 hrs 9 minutes, 53.8 mph (including lunches & dinners)