Bourbon Trail: Trip to Lexington, Electric Vehicle

Today we begin our week long visit to some of the bourbon producers of Kentucky.  We are doing this in our electric vehicle, the "Bolt".  This is our first extended trip with our all electric car.  Perhaps I am more enthused about the challenge than is Sandy.  While I fully charged the car in our garage before we left, the plan is that we will do the rest of the trip using "free" electricity.

We started the trip with the car predicting that we had 248 miles of electricity in the batteries and CarPlay predicting that we only had to drive 191 miles.  Easy Peazy!  Well, as the drive progressed, battery mileage kept going down and the mileage to the hotel recalibrated upward.  Still, we pulled in the hotel, plugged into the free destination charger and still had fifteen battery-miles to spare.  No sweat.

CarPlay says 191 miles to hotel 

The fully charged car says 203-248 battery-miles available

Arrived at the hotel with 15-19 battery-miles left

Bolt plugged in and guzzling the electricity.

While we did not do any real site-seeing today, we did drive though some beautiful country in Ohio and Kentucky.  Driving into Lexington we passed many elegant horse farms.  Kentuckians are proud of their state, stating that they make the best bourbon and raise the fastest horses.