Left Twin Cities area on June 11, got back last night. Per the car, 6363.4 miles, 1815kWh used, 3.5 mi/kWh. Many trip highlights:
- Hundreds of miles of extremely remote roads in Quebec and Newfoundland & Labrador
- Charging up with the freshest and newest electricity while visiting the Daniel Johnson Dam and hydroelectric generating station
- 100 miles of dirt road on Quebec Route 389 (made more fun in Swift mode with traction control half disabled). Got a rock chip from a passing truck, but more on that later
- Full-send on the Trans-Labrador Highway from Labrador City to Port Hope Simpson. Total time on that stretch was 8 hours, 50 minutes. Charged in Churchill Falls for 40 minutes, charged again in Happy Valley - Goose Bay for 1h10min (with a MOST excellent lunch at Mammatuk while I charged) for a total of 1h50min of charging. Which means my actual driving time was 7 hours. For a distance of 581 miles. On road that's mostly speed limit of 80kph (50mph). You do the math on that.
- An insane ferry crossing from Labrador to Newfoundland, during which time they cancelled the rest of the crossings for that day because it was too rough.
- Drinks at Norseman Restaurant in L'Anse aux Meadows with ice cubes hewn from passing icebergs.
- A week exploring the absolutely beautiful island of Newfoundland.
- Getting to Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America. Closer to Ireland than to my house there.
- A visit to the Drive Electric NL Resource Centre in St John's. They helped with the initial rollout of DCFCs in Newfoundland, which makes Newfoundland possibly the easiest area of Canada to road-trip an EV. I let the head guy of the place drive me around in my Lucid, taking me to his friends and family to show the car off.
- Windshield chip repair by an old salt in St John's whose Newfoundland accent was so thick I could barely understand him. But he did great work!
- The flagman (flag kid, he was probably under 20) at some roadworks in Nova Scotia who about jumped out of his own skin with excitement when I pulled up to his stop sign to wait for the escort car. He'd never seen a Lucid before and I kinda made his day.
