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A long time ago in a galaxy ... NYC - Miami in 24 hours, but even given the ID.4's seating & handling comfort I won't be doing that! And I well remember a SoCal - San Antonio run too, equally long ago.

My wife once did the iron-man from Miami back to DC, and she did that only because she had a particularly unpleasant travelling companion, and she couldn't stand the thought of another night in a hotel with her.

 

[ericy]

Well, I didn't have any data to support that position (the money losing part) previously, and I still don't, but of these 17 charging stops, only at the first in Junction, Texas did I have a charging companion. At the other sixteen? Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. And I noticed only one other EV on the road at some point on Highway 5, not counting a Prius changing a flat tire in... Tucson, maybe?

As a counterpoint, my most recent charging stops have always had at least one other car present. The busiest I have seen had 5/8 in use (2 ID.4, one Bolt, one Mach-e, and one eTron). Well, to be fair, the etron belonged to a tech that worked for ABB, and he was repairing the one station that was out of order.

 

[ericy]

This is of course just anecdotal on my part, but one time I saw some techs out to repair a couple stalls at a nearby EA location and they were driving a Bolt. No idea if that was like a "company" car or what, but it makes sense, they gotta have an actual EV to test if the station is working or not.

I think they must be company cars. To be able to do a proper job of it, each tech will need a car loaded with diagnostic equipment, tools and some number of spare parts. Given the likely distances between stations, they might need to have sufficient spare parts to repair numerous chargers.