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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"We just took our ID4 for a long weekend in Shenandoah for our first trip. The charging situation was totally fine. We left with a full charge, topped up at the Walmart in Haymarket and then explored stanardsville and the Charlottesville area. There were fast chargers in Charlottesville and slower ones in the area. On the way home, we had plenty of charge left to make it to DC without stopping. Yes it required a bit of planning but the apps will tell you if the station is in use or if it’s offline. I was not totally sold on getting an EV (my husband pushed for it), but this trip was a piece of cake."

That sounds like a dawdling weekend, not a road trip where you're trying to cover ground to get to your destination. When I'm driving to Michigan, I'm not stopping in Haymarket unless I stupidly forgot to fuel up before leaving the my house in DC.[/quote]

We just took our ID4 to New York, and stopped for 20 minutes to charge in New Jersey, where we also used the bathroom and got a cup of coffee, charged for 30 minutes in New York while hanging out with family at a park that happened to have a charger, and then another 22 minutes to charge in Delaware on the way home, where we used the bathroom and got lunch. Fitting the charging into the trip was just fine. Maybe it added a total of 20 minutes to the whole round-trip drive over stopping for gas, but that seems worth it, since it also saved us a lot of money over doing the trip with a gas car (the NJ and Delaware charges were free because we used Electrify America stations, which you get three years of free charges at if you buy an ID4).[/quote]

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