u/Justinsetchell

Hi everyone. My girlfriend and I are going to Vegas this weekend in her 2wd EquinoxEv. Leaving Saturday morning returning Sunday evening.

The listed range of the car 319 miles and the driver is just under 300 miles so the car can, in theory, make it all the way there on a full charge, but I don't want to risk running out of range right before making it there, or not being able to charge while there and not being able to make it to a quick charging station to get home and being stuck waiting to charge enough at a level 2 charger. We've never done a road trip in this car and still haven't used a fast charger on it.

So my plan would be to, of course, start out with 100% charge, stop at a quick charger somewhere around halfway or more to Vegas, spend 20 minutes (I'm guessing) charging back to 80% and then driving the rest of the way.

Once we arrive if we can charge at the casino we are staying at great, if not either use a quick charger near Vegas to charge up to 80% and stop about halfway on the way back and quick charge again back up 80% to get home.

Or if we have enough range left when leaving Vegas to make it to another fast charging station on the way back just head for that.

I know this is doable in theory, but how realistic or inconvenient will it be? What charging stations along the way are both fast and reliably in service? What charging services should we make sure we are signed up with ahead of time, or can we just swipe a credit car like at a gas pump?

Our route to Vegas and back would be along the 10 and the 15.

Thanks.

EDIT: I should add that we do to have the adaptor for Tesla superchargers.

I've been watching some media and social media posts about the Indy test sessions and a few people mentioned that some of the bigger teams, specifically Penske did not bring their super speedway cars to the test session.

What exactly are these superspeedway cars? I know there is a different aero package for the superspeedways, but every team has that and every team has been running that aero package in these tests.

Does Dallara make different spec chassis for road and street circuits vs large ovals? I thought all the teams got the identical chassis? What makes a super speedway car different to another car? What are the differences between that and another car, why would team choose not to run those cars in this test, and car super speedway specific cars car something ever team has or only the larger better funded teams?