CYURE GOES TO SC!! 8/22/2026

[cyure]

A Better Route Planner says your one-way trip out would use 419 kWh and take 13 hours, 50 minutes. One of the reasons I don’t use it is it’s super conservative and always suggests I stop before I need to. It suggests you need 3 stops to get there. If you can charge on a hotel charger, it’ll be about the same on the way home. You could do the trip with two longer stops in each direction, but that might not be to your liking.

This was a lot of driving in a day. We were on a mission. We really probably should have stopped for ther night.

 

[THil08]

I’m curious about your times. If I’m reading this correctly, it took you approximately 13 hours to go 691 miles? That’s 53 mph average. That suggests to me that you stopped for a meal at least once? Maybe twice?

Assuming that’s the case, then your total trip time shouldn’t be any different on your drive out or back, if your charging and meal/restroom stops coincide.

I’m assuming the Scout BEV has a 130 kWh battery.

I’m assuming you would get poor efficiency of 2.0 miles/kWh.

691 miles at 2.0 miles/kWh = 345.5 kWh.
But you charged from home for the first ~350 miles.
So:
130 kWh @ $0.174/kWh at home = $22.62
215 kWh @ $0.46/kWh (average in IL and SC for DCFC) = $99.13

Outbound cost ~= $121.75

Next Assumption: You charged at a free L2 charger overnight, arriving with 5% remaining and ending your charge with 100%

Exploring the area and heading home, you drive 952 miles.
952 miles @ 2 miles/kWh = 476 kWh.
You got 123.5 kWh overnight charge at the hotel for free.
Drive home using about 352.5 kWh @ $0.46/kWh = $162.15

You arrive home with some low percentage. And you don’t need to go out tomorrow, just plug in and tomorrow the truck will be well on its way to being refilled for your low-cost home energy price.

Total cost: $162.15 + $121.75 = $283.90

You forgot to account for the cost to fill the car before leaving town. That would be about $61.92 at $4.52/gallon, assuming it’s a 13.7 gallon tank.

Supra cost: $275.55, including the first fill-up, but not the last fill-up.
Scout BEV cost: $283.90, including the first fill-up, a free overnight charge, and not the last fill-up.

Because of the dramatic increases in cost at DCFC recently, it’s now about the same cost to drive an EV on a road trip as it is to drive a gassy car. I typically get 2.3-2.5 in my truck, so my cost would be about 15-25% lower than these estimates.

What would this trip look like with the EREV? Just curious to see what the difference in cost would be.