Mammoth: April 2023: Day 8: Return

Mammoth

April 2023: Day 8

Lapping High Five Express in the morning.

Limelight Hotel under construction.

Topping off in Bishop, just in case.

From 91% to 99% in 21 minutes, 5.6kWh delivered.

Caltrans District 9 office has the last working charger between Bishop and Inyokern.

25 minutes later, full means 222 miles estimated range, 261 max/182 min predicted.

Empty Inyo County Sheriff's cars placed to deter speeders.

Private plane at Independence Airport.

Made it the 170 miles to Mojave with 61 miles of range left/29% battery.

Charging at 43kW seems to be as fast as this Chevy Bolt EUV is going to get.

No other cars here, much unlike the Tesla supercharger down the road.

Big rig transporting some even bigger tires.

Mojave Air and Space Port's airplane graveyard. Boeing 777-200ER's and Airbus A380-800's.

Not quite true, they added a $0.99 fee to the final charge.

30 minutes at 44kW transferred 21.3kWh, battery somewhere above 57%.

Traffic accident jamming up CA-14N.

Jin Cook in Santa Clarita.

Galbi tang. The shortrib is buried.

Ban chan.

Inside.

There's the galbi. It was okay, but finding even okay Korean food in Santa Clarita was a pleasant enough surprise.

Rush hour traffic the other way.

Made it back, 91 miles from last charging stop in Mojave.

Total energy for Mammoth to back home, 78.3 kWh, 305 miles, 3.9 miles/kWh.

Got in a few last runs in the morning up and down High Five Express, then was time to pack up and head home.

Apparently in the past week, the charger I'd used in Coso Junction had broken and was still not repaired, so definitely had some added stress on the way home. Opted to top off in Bishop even though that was only 43 miles from Mammoth because of the lack of charging options between Bishop and Inyokern-- and leaving Bishop with a full charge would given the option of pushing all the way to Mojave if the charger in Inyokern was also broken (or full). Turns out the charging stop in Bishop (and lunch break at Schat's) was worth it-- was able to push all the way to Mojave.

29% battery after 170 miles of driving to Mojave meant I wasn't going to make it much further, but at least charging between Mojave and Los Angeles is pretty accessible. The Chargepoint station in Mojave was completely empty and was able to charge at 44kW, which seems to be about as good as this pathetic Chevy Bolt EUV is capable of in the real world. 30 minutes of charging (21kWh) also was enough to get all the way home.

Final bit of mention of the trip was a stop for dinner at Jin Cook in Santa Clarita. Unexpectedly decent Korean food sure beat sitting in traffic. Not the best galbi tang, but good enough to not complain.