Lee Chiacos
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- First Name
- Lee
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- Santa Barbara California
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- 2021 Taycan
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We took our '21 Taycan on a winter road trip to Tucson Arizona this month. With a full charge from our solar panels showing 253 estimated miles we left Santa Barbara, skirted Los Angeles, and headed for Palm Springs.
We scoped out Electrify America chargers and found them to be well placed and functional, but usually only about 100kw of actual juice, even on the ones that tout up to 350kw. We charged nine times keeping the battery between 25% and 85% at a total cost of $219. We charged twice in Tucson at a Chargepoint near the cottage we rented on Airbnb. Our route took us near Phoenix, down to Tucson, then west to Yuma Az, through the Anza Borrega Desert, over the coastal mountains to Oceanside, California, then north Through LA back to Santa Barbara.
Driving the Taycan was a delight for me and for my wife. We had no problems and found the car handled beautifully at speeds I cannot publish. We roll on 21s so it could be a little rough at times. We did pass through a dust storm in the Mojave Desert on the way out and had to charge in a Walmart parking lot with blowing dust, the low point of the trip, but overall the charging went well.
We found very few electric cars in Arizona and saw no other Taycans out of the hundreds of thousands of cars and trucks on our journey. Americans have a fetish for enormous vehicles which are driven mostly empty. The EV revolution is barely rolling out here. The effects of climate change can be vividly observed in the devastation caused by record temperatures in the desert. All vegetation, trees, and even cacti are showing deep stress, and wild animals are decimated.
We scoped out Electrify America chargers and found them to be well placed and functional, but usually only about 100kw of actual juice, even on the ones that tout up to 350kw. We charged nine times keeping the battery between 25% and 85% at a total cost of $219. We charged twice in Tucson at a Chargepoint near the cottage we rented on Airbnb. Our route took us near Phoenix, down to Tucson, then west to Yuma Az, through the Anza Borrega Desert, over the coastal mountains to Oceanside, California, then north Through LA back to Santa Barbara.
Driving the Taycan was a delight for me and for my wife. We had no problems and found the car handled beautifully at speeds I cannot publish. We roll on 21s so it could be a little rough at times. We did pass through a dust storm in the Mojave Desert on the way out and had to charge in a Walmart parking lot with blowing dust, the low point of the trip, but overall the charging went well.
We found very few electric cars in Arizona and saw no other Taycans out of the hundreds of thousands of cars and trucks on our journey. Americans have a fetish for enormous vehicles which are driven mostly empty. The EV revolution is barely rolling out here. The effects of climate change can be vividly observed in the devastation caused by record temperatures in the desert. All vegetation, trees, and even cacti are showing deep stress, and wild animals are decimated.
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