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It did sign me up for the monthly subscription plan, but the first three months were free. After a few months, I realized that I had hardly ever needed to use it, so I canceled the monthly subscription. I think I could still use it with the Tesla but I would just pay a higher rate for the charge.

That would be 120+ miles on my Model 3. $12.50 is expensive but still way cheaper than gas in California.

@@mr.fluffy770 even at 12.50 it’s less than half what it would cost to drive the minivan that distance here in Oregon

EPA range, that would be about 130 miles when the car was new. I have over 5% battery degradation, so my current rated range it would be around 120 miles. In my experience, on a road trip in warm weather, my rule of thumb for a full battery would be 280 mile. In winter, I mentally reduce that to 240. So, 40% is 112 miles in summer, and 96 miles in winter. On the other hand, if I do a lot of stop-and-go driving around town, I get better than the rated range, so overall I'm happy with the range. When I've calculated it in the past, I think an all-supercharging trip costs about 60% of the price of a gas one. Supercharging prices have gone up this year, but so have gas prices.

I never really left. I've fast-charged my wife's i3 many times, and we recently got a 2015 eGolf for the kids, and I fast charged it once just to make sure the old charge port could still take the it.

I've started seeing reports that the free charging at EA stations has ended in many places, though not all of them yet.

It's a 2019 i3s Rex. My wife still loves it, and it is fun to drive anywhere, except long trips. ;)

I noticed there is a dearth of CCS charging in WV. No Electrify America at all when I took this trip, at least.

I realized that after the drive. I've been experimenting with camera positions to try to capture the FSD Beta visualization in addition to the forward view. I hope future videos will be better.

Some days, she might encourage me to try that. ;) In a more serious vein, I've seen recent FSD Beta videos where it does visualize dogs, although they are being walked by their humans at the time. I'd like to think anything dog size or larger would be detected and avoided if at all possible.

Check out the Auto Auctions channel where he drive from Oklahoma to Los Angeles with his i3! That video gives all the goods (and the other one where he drove back home)

I agree. I wouldn't really attempt this trip in an i3, but it was a fun exercise to do. If you would like to see some actual, short road trip in an i3 (2-3 hours each way), check out some of my earlier videos.

I drive the i3 and agree it’s designed for European cities and shorter scenic country drives, but it’s also extremely efficient. It’s surprisingly fun to drive and see how far you can take it.

i3 seem very reliable. The earlier i3 ReX engine models seem to be the ones that are the least reliable vs that later years 2017+. The standard i3 with the newer upgraded battery (2018+) and without the ReX seems to be the most reliable version. Score one of them and you should be okay

My wife embraced mask-making as a hobby early in the pandemic, so we have dozens. Easy to keep the cars stocked.

Took the Tesla through the mountains to hike over the weekend. Video will be up soon!

I've heard that, too, but just like using Autopilot, it is taking some time for me to build up the courage to do it.

Glad you liked it. As sometimes happens, life gets in the way of hiking, but I will be getting back into it soon.

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I didn't keep good track of state of charge going down, but I did noticed that for some of the more steep downhills, I did gain a percent or two of charge, and I used a percent or two on some of the flatter sections. It's probably safe to say that by the time I got to the Asheville city limits, which is right off the parkway, the state of charge was basically net neutral from when I left the top of the mountain. So, that part of the drive was basically free.

How did the Indiana trip go? Did you end up taking your i3?

@@goingev2186 we did not end up going :/ but! I will come back if we do!

That's great! Let us know how your trip goes.

I agree that EA is the most expensive, but the EVGo chargers I've tried here in North Carolina are not much cheaper. ChargePoint seems to be the cheapest around here (no parking fees here), but they have very few Level 3 chargers in NC, and I've not found one that charges at faster than 50kWh yet. I think all the chargers I've tried in NC have charged by the kW. I only go to EA chargers when there is not another option, or in this case to get a free charge on Earth Day.

@@goingev2186 Ok. California is so different, there are tons of free level 2 chargers and even some free CCS chargers..

Thanks for the kind words. I think the i3's built-in navigation is fine for point-to-point, and I like that it shows you a "bubble" around your estimated range. However, I don't find it very intuitive for trip planning, and I haven't found a way to make it find chargers near your route, unless you already know where they are and add them manually as intermediate destinations. (If anyone knows how to make it do route planning like on Teslas or the newer EVs, I'd love to learn.) We've got the car coded to start in Eco Pro mode, and I did leave it in that mode for most of the trip, except the parts where the speed limit was 70mph--then I switched into Comfort, so I could go 5mph above the speed limit without the car scolding me. What you do is definitely better for range, but I was trying to drive more like the average driver on the road for this trip.