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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • You had a bunch of things going against you:

    1. EQB is a fairly low range EV.
    2. EQB only has mediocre charging speed.
    3. You charged to 100%. Charging slows down drastically above 80% in pretty much all EVs, so the fastest way to road trip is to drain the battery down to 10% and only charge to 60-80%, making more frequent, but much shorter stops. It requires a different mindset than filling up your gas car completely, but it works.
    4. It was probably very cold, which is the worst case for EV efficiency.

    If you were in a longer range EV with faster charging and didn’t charge so high, charging probably would have only added an hour to your 6 hour trip in cold weather, and maybe 30-40 minutes in warmer weather, which can be offset by eating and using the restroom during those charging breaks.