This morning we got to experience the disadvantages of not staying at a hotel with destination charging. The car has cooled off quite a bit overnight (it was 35F when we left), so when we started driving it had to warm up the battery and it had to warm us up too. As we drove up to Flagstaff (up 7000 feet in elevation) the temperature continued to drop. We got to the supercharger in Flagstaff with 3% battery. The superchargers in Flagstaff are at a nice hotel, so we enjoyed the time walking around.
Suzanne had found an interesting restaurant to try out in Gallup called the Oasis Mediterranean. It was really good! When we got there it looked like it was closed, but inside it was doing a booming business. It was worth the 1-hour investment for a sit down lunch instead of eating in the car and keeping moving.
At the supercharger in Gallup there was a technician doing preventative maintenance on the 8 stalls there (in a Hampton Inn parking lot). It was cool chatting with him and peeking over his shoulder at the innards of the supercharger. It was exactly as I suspected - well laid out and easy to work on. He said that everything was logged and they used the logs to dispatch techs like him to replace contactors and other things that wear out, ahead of them failing. He said that they log how many times the contactor has been used and what current in interrupted. Pretty cool.
He mentioned that there was some construction on I-40 between there and Albuquerque. We didn't realize the magnitude of the INSANE backup due to construction that we were going to run into. On the east-bound side it was about an hour of stop-and-crawl driving, but the west-bound side had it much worse. They were backed up for at least 10-15 miles because of it! What a great time to block off lanes on an Interstate -The weekend before Thanksgiving!
When we finally got to the hotel in Tucumcari and I fired up the laptop, I discovered that TeslaFi (which I use to gather the data) was down for several hours today.
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