Adventure Travel, Close to Home—117-mile day-trip in a 76-mile Focus EV.

My intrepid navigator Smith, puppy Snickers, and I set out Saturday morning in a Ford Focus EV with perhaps some smidgen of the uncertainty and foreboding that Amelia Earhart and her mum surely felt in 1924 when embarking on a 7000-mile trek from LA to Boston in their 1922 Kissel Speedster. Okay, that’s exaggerating, but we had two lakeside barbeques to attend, there were no 240-volt EV charging stations at either, and the first one mapped out at 58 miles away. The EPA rates the Focus EV’s range at 76 miles, and indeed after my first full re-charge on the new 240-v home charger, the range prediction was 75 miles. The second party was 50 miles from the first, meaning that the 120-volt charger would need to upload about 32 miles’ worth of electricity, but at the estimated recharge rate of 4 miles of range per hour, the second party would be over by the time we got there, and we’d still need to plug in there to ensure we had the 15 miles of range needed to return home. Michigan isn’t like California–the only public charging station along the route was 40 miles from the first party, which didn’t promise to trim our stay at the first party by much.

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