Your question might need some clarification. What is a trip?

OK, 200 Miles, is that round trip, or per day? When I recently did a couple of 2000 mile trips, each was 4 travel days of ~500/day, is that 8 trips? When I did my Cross Country Trip, 7100 miles over 7 weeks, 16 travel days, is that 16?

So, my answer could be 3 trips, or 24 trips depending on the definition. I generally define a trip as 3 (1-5 in your poll) in this case, but it is perfectly reasonable to answer 21-30.

 

I think the point of the OP's question is how often do we take our Bolt outside of home charging. That does relate to the far too common questions about range we get from Non-EV owners.

So I think the better poll is "How many times have you used DCFC outside of your own home area in the past year?

That would better incorporate these different but similar scenarios:
-one 4000 mi RT to see Grandma or Micky Mouse
-2 2000 mi RT to see closer located 1. grandma and 2. Mickey Mouse
-4 1000 mi RT long weekend trips for other activities
-8 500 mi RT easy weekend trips
-13 300 mi RT Day trips

People, for good or bad reasons, want to know if we can and do use our cars for more than just commuting, and picking up groceries, kids, or pizzas(or all three)

As a sidenote, I hate Disney and would never go there in any kind of vehicle

 

People like to buy a car or truck for the 1 day a year they need certain capabilities. My brother is living in a 5th wheel while he and his girlfriend search for a piece of property to build a house on. He had it delivered to the property where he lives. He then traded in his daily driver for a brand new Ram 3500 so he could tow it. Two years later, he has only moved it once to get it inspected. But now he drives a Ram 3500 100 miles a day instead of the Veloster turbo he used to drive. I don't even want to think about how much gas he is using.

I'm sure everyone else here gets the same questions I get about the Bolt. One of the first (if not the first) is alway, "How does it do on long trips?" As if everyone is taking long trips all the time. I'm much more concerned with how it performs the other 99% of the time.

 

That is one heck of a bill for moving a trailer once.

Have you ever thought that your brother might need to be seen by a Phsycologist? He might need some meds for his delusional actions in life. Between the price of the truck and the constant fuel bills, he is shoveling money into a bottomless pit. A truck can be hired to move the trailer for a couple hundred bucks max 🤪

 

@ARob When I saw the poll, I thought he meant to say : how many trips over 200 miles you do in a year. For me, it isn’t 200 miles roundtrip, it’s 200 miles away from home. Thus I chose the 1-5 option.
If you did 7k miles one time, 4k miles another time, for me it’s 2 …

 

To me a 200 mile trip is not a long trip. A trip that requires a public charging stop or more would be. We do day trips in the 200 mile range several times a month just for fun I just don’t see it as a long trip.

 

Yep. my 21-30 is ones that require at least 1 charge stop to make it. Now when we can do 100% battery the charges will be overnight instead of one quick DCFC to make it then overnight at the destination.

 

21-30 for me as we routinely visit family which are almost all over 200 miles. probably 2x a month sometimes 3. then we also do shopping trips in the city which is over 200 mile trip and 2-3 camping trips which are over 200 usually etc. there is a reason our Our Bolt which is 15 months old has 41K miles on it.

 

I was in that situation too, but since covid… no more long trips for me.

 

As a western state mountain man this is true. Usually I have to drive 600 miles just to start my trip.

 

I take a few a year. Some are in range of over a 1'000 miles.
But none of them are in the EV, though.
Bolt had seen up to 200 miles in one go trips. There was one vacation trip, away from home, total about 600 miles over 4 days, but I took my 32 A EVSE and an adapter to plug it in at the site (instead of the kitchen stove ).

All others, like visiting friends in Holland, MI (105 miles one way fron Okemos, MI, all highway) is done in ICE.

 

In Murca, your vehicle must meet 100% of possible driving situations. Not likely, not potential, not 99%. And if yours doesn't, that makes you impotent. Or something. And no, I never understood it either.

I bought my Bolt figuring it would meet 95% of my likely needs. To my continual surprise, it's proved even more capable than that.

 

We just drive it, and 99.99% of the time it works just fine. I'm about to do my first trip that has hurdles that are a bit frustrating, battery replacement LOL. I cannot get to the dealer with the one certified tech in the whole province, without a charge stop in the winter at 80% battery cap. It takes 80% in KWh without using heat in the cold to make the trip so I would arrive with the car dead or about to die. So to have the car arrive with not being charged for 24 hours I will go 2 days early to my parents, charge to the 80% I can and then spend the next day working remote, and not driving then the next day, drive to the dealer which should then have the car at 20% or a little less to have the battery done. It's a mess but then I'll have 100% from then on. That's to avoid needing a hotel for 2 nights otherwise.

 

I'd run my EV to the ground if I had more fast charging and way way way faster charging. 400 mile run is my limit currently.

 

I literally had a guy in Maine tell me, with the Bolt right in front of him at the campground. "Electric vehicles can't travel no infrastructure." I told him I just drive 450 miles from my house to get here in 1 day, he said "Nope you can't" and walked away. I just looked at him go back to his site and was WOW.

 

The world is full of geniuses. Just ask them.

Good on you for not wasting your time, idiots like that have their minds closed tight, and aren't worth the breath.

 

I usually take two or three 200 mile-plus trips per year.

Always in my '21 Honda Clarity PHEV Touring.

(You didn't specify.)

 

You beat me to it....I was going to say we do half a dozen or so long ones such as trips to the Maritimes and March Break in Florida or Alabama but that always happens in the motorhome. I'm looking at the possibility of taking the EUV along with us but no way I'm travelling that far in it or in any car for that matter.

 

I do about 2 or 3 200+ mile trips per month in the Bolt. Most recent one was to Baker Nevada from Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago. In two weeks I'm going Canyoneering in Kanab area. I commute on an ebike, the bolt is just for road trips and towing these days haha.

^About 70 miles from the nearest dirt road in the west deserts of Utah

^Border Inn Chargers (we didn't need to use them, the entire trip was facilitated on a brief stop in Delta UT, a fill up at a friends house in Baker and we made it all the way back to Spanish Fork from Baker on a single charge, on December 4th.

 

1 trip. Trip starts january 1st and end december 31st. Should be more than 200 miles. Will know how many miles it is in 2 weeks. Repeat next year...and the year after...and after....

 

I clocked 6000 miles on my October OnStar report. Made two and half trips across three states (880 miles one way in a day) and back. Then while I was at my destination I was commuting 200 miles a day for three days. Made this trip five times in three months. Put 14,000 miles on the car since September. Turned out to be a crazy year. Next year may be more of the same.

 

So far our experience driving the Bolt 42k miles in about 22 months(mostly 100mi radius but a few 500-1000mi RT):

The limiting factor for us is still the seats more than any DCFC issues(charging speed or charging availabilty). If the EV fairy granted me one upgrade wish for the Bolt, I'd choose better seats over faster charging. Of course if the EV fairy is offering both in a package than sure, I'll take both.