Trip to Wakefield, Massachusetts

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There are no TESLA supercharger stations in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Dakota, Oklahoma, or Arkansas at this point in time as far as I know. Heading to Maine in a few days, so trading my Model S P85 for my son’s Acura for the drive north. It has been a year since I ordered my EV, and though I switch to an ICE reluctantly, it’s the only thing to do under the present circumstances.

On August 14, 2014 “set sail” for a trip north, leaving Greensboro, NC at 9:30 am and arriving in Reston, VA (first overnight stops with friends) by about 6pm. It was a leisurely trip, with 20-minute supercharger stops in the new South Hill, VA one, then Glen Allen, and finally Woodbridge. Didn’t really need to stop in Woodbridge as it turned out; did so only out of a “range anxiety” developed on the trip out west this past May. The trip to Reston is actually quite perfect if you’re already charged up when leaving Greensboro. Two 20-minute stops are all that’s required. 

Observations thus far: I-95 anywhere north of Virginia provides the seminal argument for mass transit. 

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