1000 mile road trip to Cape Breton

We did 1000 miles of driving from Monday through Wednesday evening. First major road trip in a non-Tesla EV. Never used anything other than a Tesla plugged into Tesla charges until this trip. It was a real learning curve.

The first day was the worst. We took off from the Hudson Valley in New York and planned the first charging stop in Auburn Massachusetts at an Electrify America station. When I pulled up, all six chargers were covered by four big school buses charging up. The guy in charge of the buses moved one of them so that I could charge up. I had the Electrify America app on my phone already. I tried connecting the CCS one cable to my adapter, but it did not seem to fit correctly. Nevertheless, I tried plugging it into the port on the trail seeker anyway. It refused to charge, I imagine because it was not properly connected. I tried to remove the charger but couldn’t get it out. When I finally got it loose, I tried once again on the same charger and then gave up. The next place we went to was in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was a Tesla charger that supposedly accepted non-Teslas. I had the Tesla app, but when I connected the cable to the car, it told me that I needed to connect the cable to start charging. I had the right charger letter and number, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to start. Tesla owners came over to try to help me, but could not figure out what was going on. So on we go to Marlborough Massachusetts where I stop at an Autel charger in front of an office building. Now we’re back to CCS one connections again and I tried to connect up, but I can’t get the charger to start. I try removing the cable and the CCS one cable comes out, but the adapter is stuck in the car. I get out the manual and read the instruction about clicking three times to unlock. I tried several times and it didn’t work. The light was not on for charging. I called SUBARU Road assistance and ended up on the phone with someone who knew nothing about EV‘s. That ate an hour of time. In the end, she told me to drive to a Subaru dealer. The nearest one was back in the direction that we’d already come from, but we didn’t have any choice and I was running low on charge. When we got to the dealer at 5:30 at night, the guy taking in the car
Went around to the passenger side of the car and simply pull the adapter out of the car, no problem. We talked with that guy and a sales person for a little while and then went to another charger about a mile away. The whole thing worked like a charm. We took off from there and made it to Augusta Maine around 10:30 at night, four hours later than we planned. Our motel had a Tesla supercharger in front of it and I went out around 4 o’clock in the morning and charged it to full. From there on out, it was smooth sailing, although I was nervous all the way. When you get into Nova Scotia, the charging stations are pretty far apart from each other and you have to pray that they’re all working. Nevertheless, we made it.