West Bound - Day 6

It sure is nice to be home...

We had another short day today with only 487.5 miles between Indio and home. The drive was again uneventful. We did have one new thing that happened at the supercharger in Harris ranch. The first one (of 16?) gave a "charging station error". That's the first time I saw any error at all for the 48 supercharges that I did over the 5,988 miles. That's something that I wondered about before the trip - How reliable were the superchargers? Pretty damn reliable...

I noticed that there was a monitoring station at all of the superchargers. I guess so that they can see what's happening (see the camera?) and remotely reset things:

I saw another one of the temporary setups (with 00-AWG 480v 3-phase temporary wiring) at the charger in Cabazon, CA. I guess they were making sure to have enough charging spots for the Thanksgiving peak travel days.

At the Cabazon supercharger

At the Indio supercharger

We noticed when we were going East that we passed quite a few semi trucks carrying Teslas.  Suzanne started counting them and we ended up counting 15. There were lots in California, but we only saw one in Texas (on I-40). Well we saw a TON of them yesterday and especially today. We counted 60 trucks, each with at least 8 vehicles on them. Just in our time on the road we saw almost 500 Teslas going out to people...

The overall trip map is pretty impressive. 5,988 miles in 16 days. But, the total mileage on the car is 8,268 miles and 5,988 miles of that is this trip! 64% of the car's total is this trip:

Our trip today... not so impressive:

Our drive & charge details:

Totals for the day:
487.5 miles, 139.1 kWh, 285 Wh/mi (3.51 miles/kWh)
08:00-16:59, so 8 hrs 59 minutes trip time (54.2 mpg, which includes lunch at Harris Ranch)
Actual drive time was 7 hrs, 21 minutes (66.3 mph)

Totals for the trip:
5,987.75 miles, 1,660 kWh, 277 Wh/mi (3.61 miles/kWh).
111 hrs 8 minutes, 53.9 mph (including lunches and dinners)