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Road Tripping in a 7 Year Old EV<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I took my 7 year old EV with 100,000 miles on the odometer on a road trip to visit National Parks and landmarks in the American Southwest. Spoiler alert: all went well<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charging your Electric Car at an RV Campground<\/a>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Our Model 3 charging on a 50 amp RV hookup. Many hookups have more than one outlet you can plug into. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Quick story about a short weekend trip when we stayed at an RV campground and charged our car overnight on an RV hookup<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driving 800 Miles in one Day – with Kids!<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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We visited the Grand Canyon during my kids’ spring break. Driving 800 miles in one day<\/a> was easy thanks to Superchargers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Family Trips in an EV<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Visiting Redwood trees in the Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We’ve gone on many family trips in our EVs over the past 8 years. This post focuses on family<\/a>, not the cars. Main point: if you get an EV family trips will still be family trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Family trip to Monterey in our EVs<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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In 2016 we drove our Rav4 EV for a weekend of fun in Monterey. 5 years later we took a Model Y<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Impression of the Volkswagen ID.4<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Guest writer Courtney gives us her first impressions<\/a> of her new VW ID.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Model Y Road Trip to Crater Lake National Park<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Last week we took our Model Y on a short road trip to visit Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. It was a relatively short 350 miles one way, but long enough to get a feel for driving the Model Y on longer road trips<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer EV Road Trips<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Since getting our first electric car over 5 years ago we\u2019ve taken our EV on summer road trips. Here we describe our first trip in the Model 3. How was it? We saw some great sites, interesting history, and beautiful vistas. Click here to read all about it<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camping Trips with the Model 3<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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One last weekend camping in a National Park<\/a> before school starts for the kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camping Trips in the Rav4 EV<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n
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The Rav4 EV seats 5 and has a large storage compartment behind the rear seats that can store everything you\u2019ll need for a weekend camping trip. I’ve written two posts about camping with the Rav: One describes our first camping trip over 6 years ago<\/a>, and the second post describes more of our camping adventures in Rav4 EV<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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