jjswan33
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Took a trip in my R1T to southeastern Oregon. Both a charging desert and an actual desert involved.
Getting there:
Left Sandy OR with 93% SOC and drove straight through to the EA station at Walmart in Bend OR. I arrived with ~29% SOC and charged to 83% SOC in 38 min. Top speed of 210kW.
From here I headed east to a Chargepoint station in Burns, OR.. So warning here this station was painfully slow, itās supposed to be 62.5kW but would only do half of that, so I charged for nearly 2 hours and 15 min.
Night 1: Posted up on some BLM land NW of Burns and quickly setup the RTT in the dark. Survived the night in the tent with a thunderstorm but slept through most of it and then coated the truck with a thick layer of mud getting back to Burns.. So there is a car wash in Burns/Hines but requires quarters and the changed machine wasnāt workingā¦ so a muddy truck would be the norm for the rest of this trip.
Day 2: Heading back to Burns to top off (another hour of charging, same 31kW rate) before heading south to Frenchglen, OR. I booked two nights at Steens Mountain Wilderness resort. Specifically I booked a RV spot with a Nema 14-50 plug. After confirming my charging situation and relaxing a bit I went and explored the Steens Mountain loop road. It wasnāt open all the way but was able to drive miles up the gravel roads to some amazing views.
Day 3: Headed south around the Steens Mountains and explored the Alvord Desert, the mud was thick here in places too. In fact at one point I almost drove straight into a mud bit/pond that would have surely swallowed the truck but hit the brakes just in time and was able to navigate around. In total close to 27 miles overlanding through the desert.
Day 4: Overlanding adventure and then return home. After charging fully to 100% I headed due west from Frenchglen overland. I spent the next 5 hours traversing the wilderness with mountains, canyons, cows and more for a 93 mile traverse to 395. This part was awesome but the less awesome part is I emerged on 395 with a range ~10 miles short of what I needed to get back to Bend. As a result I had to back track 30 min each way to charge in Burns again. So 1hr22min later I had enough juice to make it back to Bend (35 min of charging on a 150kW EA stall, 167kW max) to finish charging and head home to Sandy. Long day but made it home just before midnight after a quick stop in Madras to rinse off the mud.
Getting there:
Left Sandy OR with 93% SOC and drove straight through to the EA station at Walmart in Bend OR. I arrived with ~29% SOC and charged to 83% SOC in 38 min. Top speed of 210kW.
From here I headed east to a Chargepoint station in Burns, OR.. So warning here this station was painfully slow, itās supposed to be 62.5kW but would only do half of that, so I charged for nearly 2 hours and 15 min.
Night 1: Posted up on some BLM land NW of Burns and quickly setup the RTT in the dark. Survived the night in the tent with a thunderstorm but slept through most of it and then coated the truck with a thick layer of mud getting back to Burns.. So there is a car wash in Burns/Hines but requires quarters and the changed machine wasnāt workingā¦ so a muddy truck would be the norm for the rest of this trip.
Day 2: Heading back to Burns to top off (another hour of charging, same 31kW rate) before heading south to Frenchglen, OR. I booked two nights at Steens Mountain Wilderness resort. Specifically I booked a RV spot with a Nema 14-50 plug. After confirming my charging situation and relaxing a bit I went and explored the Steens Mountain loop road. It wasnāt open all the way but was able to drive miles up the gravel roads to some amazing views.
Day 3: Headed south around the Steens Mountains and explored the Alvord Desert, the mud was thick here in places too. In fact at one point I almost drove straight into a mud bit/pond that would have surely swallowed the truck but hit the brakes just in time and was able to navigate around. In total close to 27 miles overlanding through the desert.
Day 4: Overlanding adventure and then return home. After charging fully to 100% I headed due west from Frenchglen overland. I spent the next 5 hours traversing the wilderness with mountains, canyons, cows and more for a 93 mile traverse to 395. This part was awesome but the less awesome part is I emerged on 395 with a range ~10 miles short of what I needed to get back to Bend. As a result I had to back track 30 min each way to charge in Burns again. So 1hr22min later I had enough juice to make it back to Bend (35 min of charging on a 150kW EA stall, 167kW max) to finish charging and head home to Sandy. Long day but made it home just before midnight after a quick stop in Madras to rinse off the mud.
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