I’m really surprised you would be willing to go back to ICE. I do get the charging frustrations, my wife took our Rivian from New Jersey to central Ohio for a two week trip. Compared to the Tesla experience it’s the wild Wild West. She never failed to charge, but it definitely requires far more knowledge and awareness than Tesla where you can essentially just plug in and know it will deliver charge at the best rate possible.
For now my solution to that is to just have at least one Tesla in the household, but Elon going crazy MAGA makes another Tesla purchase unlikely. Hopefully things will be improved by the time our Y needs replacing.
Btw if you want to drive a Rivian mine now lives in Battle Ground. It’s obviously very expensive compared to a Ridgeline, but it is just so fucking good.
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Yeah I don't really want to go back to ICE either, but I'm just struggling over here on the west coast if you aren't within a handful of miles from I-5. We traveled from Portland to Bend over Labor Day. I could get to Bend ok. Had about 60 miles of range left on my Extended Range Mach-E. Dropped family off at the hotel and took a 10 minute drive over to the EA station at the Walmart. 3/4 chargers down over labor day weekend. There was a line 3 car deep. Went back to the hotel and tried to go back again the next morning. Was now 2/4 available, but both were taken, was an extended range Lightning (the only one I've seen in the wild) that had an hour to get charged. So I scrambled and had to go to some public charging station that was a slow level 2. Spent 3 hours there while my family was stuck at the hotel just to get enough range to do some light travel to Smith Rock and some other close locations to Bend. It wasn't until later on Monday that I was finally able to get an available charge at the EA station for that trip. It sucked.
I've had issues going back and forth between Portland and Hood River where the EA station in Hood River was down and I rolled into Troutdale on electron vapor.
If I want to go to the coast I have to be very mindful what my trip looks like since there's only a Tesla station over there. I can do a basic trip there and back, but not much more than that.
And then if I ever dare traveling further east on I-84 it gets real spooky fast once you get past Hood River. Infrastructure just isn't there and I'm kind of sick of putting entire trips on hold trying to find a unicorn charging station.