34:00 Helpful hint: My husband uses golf gloves to handle the adapter. It makes it a little easier to get the adapter on and off and the adapters get hot as you say. I bought some garden gloves in prep for my Tesla to CCS1 adapter but Hyundai still can't charge at Tesla yet so I have cobwebs and dust bunnies on my garden gloves.
28:00 I'm sorry about the ICEd charger. That stinks and folks are rude. That said, it is what it is because we are only at 7% nationally adoption so "many "bumps in the road". I found out Mexico is like 1% only but there's will go up. Eventually, things will get better (as you say). At least you are trying, I take my ICE car on road trips. Also, one consolation for me is that folks ICE gas pumps also by shopping in the convenience store but usually there are so many gas pumps that we don't notice. Maybe some day there will be tons of chargers (slows and fast).
1:00 When you said you bought park passes that triggered me to OMG do I have a NP pass? Not at this time, but we can buy at the NPs as you show. I get the annual one. Not so funny story - my husband left the back door open after our dog had just passed away (circa 2018) and someone came in the back door (who must have known the dog had passed away) and stole my husband's old wallet, his gold class ring, and his Shinola watch. My husband had just bought a NP Senior Lifetime Pass ($80.00) and that was in the stolen wallet. Ouch. I think now he just gets the yearly Senior pass ($20) when we go. I always get the annual pass ($80). I'm not a Senior yet. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh man. I think loosing the NP pass would be even worse than having to replace a bunch of credit cards. That's awful. I'm glad at least you still have the opportunity to go
It's a shame that the infrastructure isn't much better at this point. I'd hate to spend so much time and effort searching for a place to charge while on a vacation. I'd rather spend my time hiking and not worrying about charging.
Tesla to the rescue again. But I'm a bit confused. You were willing to charge on those slow chargers were the rude people were parked, but then on the Supercharger you were complaining and left when the truck ramped down to 134kWh after reaching 50% SoC?
Very different use cases between the two though. I would have been very willing to use the slow chargers because we were already going to go for a several hour hike from near that location, so it would have added no time at all to be charging there. The Tesla ones were a 30 minute drive each way, completely out of the way of what we were doing, plus there was nothing else to do there, so every minute spent there felt wasted.
@@Eventurefamily Well, you and your family have to eat, and that takes time. What we do is get something to eat at fast food place on the way to a Supercharger and then eat while it charges. By the time we're done, it's also done charging. But we're still in the early days of the electrification transformation and national parks (except for a minor few) haven't caught up yet. The more EV's out there, the more chargers they'll add. At least Tesla added one 30 mimutes away, while the others haven't done a thing.
Those go screw you elitist ev driving tofu eater experiences are always fun. My favorite was a pickup truck that pulled in front of us and laid on the gas. He had a bumper sticker that said my V8 identifies as an EV 😂. Luckily it's easy to get away from clowns in an ev. Glad you kept your cool. Not worth it.
34:00 Helpful hint: My husband uses golf gloves to handle the adapter. It makes it a little easier to get the adapter on and off and the adapters get hot as you say. I bought some garden gloves in prep for my Tesla to CCS1 adapter but Hyundai still can't charge at Tesla yet so I have cobwebs and dust bunnies on my garden gloves.
14:00 Agree, still very hard to find hotels with level2 charging or enough level2 charging.
25:00 Cool, I've seen Thunderhole on TV.
28:00 I'm sorry about the ICEd charger. That stinks and folks are rude. That said, it is what it is because we are only at 7% nationally adoption so "many "bumps in the road". I found out Mexico is like 1% only but there's will go up. Eventually, things will get better (as you say). At least you are trying, I take my ICE car on road trips. Also, one consolation for me is that folks ICE gas pumps also by shopping in the convenience store but usually there are so many gas pumps that we don't notice. Maybe some day there will be tons of chargers (slows and fast).
1:00 When you said you bought park passes that triggered me to OMG do I have a NP pass? Not at this time, but we can buy at the NPs as you show. I get the annual one. Not so funny story - my husband left the back door open after our dog had just passed away (circa 2018) and someone came in the back door (who must have known the dog had passed away) and stole my husband's old wallet, his gold class ring, and his Shinola watch. My husband had just bought a NP Senior Lifetime Pass ($80.00) and that was in the stolen wallet. Ouch. I think now he just gets the yearly Senior pass ($20) when we go. I always get the annual pass ($80). I'm not a Senior yet. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh man. I think loosing the NP pass would be even worse than having to replace a bunch of credit cards. That's awful. I'm glad at least you still have the opportunity to go
@@Eventurefamily Agreed!!🤣🤣 Yes, we will always keep going to NPs and State parks.
It's a shame that the infrastructure isn't much better at this point. I'd hate to spend so much time and effort searching for a place to charge while on a vacation. I'd rather spend my time hiking and not worrying about charging.
Tesla to the rescue again. But I'm a bit confused. You were willing to charge on those slow chargers were the rude people were parked, but then on the Supercharger you were complaining and left when the truck ramped down to 134kWh after reaching 50% SoC?
Very different use cases between the two though. I would have been very willing to use the slow chargers because we were already going to go for a several hour hike from near that location, so it would have added no time at all to be charging there. The Tesla ones were a 30 minute drive each way, completely out of the way of what we were doing, plus there was nothing else to do there, so every minute spent there felt wasted.
@@Eventurefamily Well, you and your family have to eat, and that takes time. What we do is get something to eat at fast food place on the way to a Supercharger and then eat while it charges. By the time we're done, it's also done charging.
But we're still in the early days of the electrification transformation and national parks (except for a minor few) haven't caught up yet. The more EV's out there, the more chargers they'll add. At least Tesla added one 30 mimutes away, while the others haven't done a thing.
Those go screw you elitist ev driving tofu eater experiences are always fun. My favorite was a pickup truck that pulled in front of us and laid on the gas. He had a bumper sticker that said my V8 identifies as an EV 😂. Luckily it's easy to get away from clowns in an ev. Glad you kept your cool. Not worth it.