2020 Chevy Bolt EV Road Trip Pt. 3: Cheerio to Texas

Starting the return leg of our 2020 Chevy Bolt EV road trip, back from Fully Charged in Austin, TX and all the way back to Boston, MA via the Tri-state area (~2,000 miles). Part 3 takes us all the way across East Texas, hitting three Electrify America sites in Bellmead, Royse City, and an extended stop at Jefferson Park in Mt. Pleasant, TX. It provides a useful comparison looking at the time and cost of short charging stops in the 2020 Bolt EV, leaving at 50-60% state of charge, vs. planning a longer stop to get 200+ miles on the GOM and skip a charge session or two. More details on this at the bottom of the description (As requested by a few viewers recently, I'm putting together a full Google Doc containing charge stops, costs, time, and energy delivered, which I'll share in one of the final videos from this trip...thanks for being patient on that one!) We leave Mt. Pleasant with roughly the amount of energy we need to travel ~200 miles across Arkansas to Little Rock, but will it be enough? If not, the only backups are RV camping sites via L2, so we'd be stopping the night! Check out how we get on in pt. 4 and don't forget to subscribe to get the notification when that one goes live. Thanks for watching and feel free to email us any questions about the trip (or the 2020 Chevy Bolt EV) to plugandplayEV@gmail.com. Cheers! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plugandplayEV Twitter: https://twitter.com/plugandplayEV --- Music Credit: www.bensound.com --- Stop at every location to 50-60% or charge longer and skip some stops? The two shorter sessions in this video (Bellmead + Royse City, TX) provided a great counterpoint to the one long and give an insight into the cost and time difference of these two distinct charge strategies. Bellmead/Royse City Combined: 6-65% /12-48% -- $12.35 76 mins -- 65.8 kWh . Mt. Pleasant, TX 6-96% -- $16.72 104 minutes -- 65.3 kWh So, $4.37 cheaper and 28 minutes fewer plugged in with the "charge to 50-60%" approach. That doesn't take into account the time to get off and back on the highway, of course, but even allowing 10 minutes for that makes it a winner. Good to know for future road trips!

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