You can install our site as a web app on your iOS device by utilizing the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari. Please see this thread for more details on this.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Starting a thread for Michael Fritts to share his experience in Hawaii and the mainland. Can't wait to hear your stories!
The big island of Hawaii has been a challenging place to keep the car charged. It's the most expensive electric in the USA, so people are naturally hesitant to share. It could be as much as $40 to fill the battery from the grid. Public charging stations are few, and for direct profit mostly. I figured the one at walmart charges the equivalent of $6/gallon.
It's a great place to drive though. Lot's of crazy steep, long hills and miles of hairpin turns. Going from Kailua Kona to Mauna Kea was 55miles that used 118 miles of range. On the way down I gained 8 miles range over those same 55miles travel. Fun!
Looking at the supercharger map now is really impressive. And the projections are even more impressive. Just a couple days ago a station opened near my hometown in upstate NY. Previously it hadn't even been on the map for a future location.
I have to admit it's poignant for me. So much of the trip was about contacting other owners or friends for charging. I got to meet and visit a lot of wonderful people. It's a shame that for future trips on the same route, that social part of the journey will no longer be necessary.
- - - Updated - - -
Akikiki, on Big Island i drove from Kailua Kona to the visitor center near the top of Mauna Kea. 55 miles, 9,000 ft climb. It used 118 miles range on the way up and on the way back I gained 8.
On a trip from Hilo it was fun. I was on top of the saddle road, 45 miles from home with 15 miles range remaining, but I knew I'd make it with even more range when I reached Kona.
Hyder and the area nearby are beautiful. There are good stations along the way listed on plugshare. Hyder itself is a challenge however. No EV charger available when I went and the RV parks don't have compatible plugs for any available Tesla adapter. it's a slow charge on 110 and a max range drive. Good luck!
I met two Tesla owners on the trip who knew each other from plugshare and subsequently sharing charging with each other. One is a conservative, the other, liberal. They both had the same thing to say about each other. "I really like him, but he doesn't like me." I thought that was funny.
I'm thinking I should write a book about the adventure, but I'm leaning toward a children's book. Kids love the car and they are the ones to reach in order to expedite a transition from fossil fuels.
I'm thinking I should write a book about the adventure, but I'm leaning toward a children's book. Kids love the car and they are the ones to reach in order to expedite a transition from fossil fuels.
I feel like I dropped the ball re: social media during the trip. It was a busy pace, I didn't gear-up with anything other than my cheap phone for pics, so I left most of the journaling to Lita. She put a bunch of pics up on litalovestotravel.tumblr.com for anyone who wants to see.