| Hill Aerospace Museum
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 8:36 am | Departed Red Lion Inn | 249 |
| 9:07 am | Arrived Hill Aerospace Museum | 219 |
Range/Distance ratio: 1.21
Near the Hill Air Force Base, the Hill Aerospace Museum features a wide
collection of aircraft, particularly military aircraft, collected over the last
century.
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| Nephi Supercharger
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 11:06 am | Departed Hill Aerospace Museum | 218 |
| 12:42 pm | Arrived Nephi Supercharger | 83 |
Range/Distance ratio: 1.15
Conditions: 80-mph speed limit, 90°F
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After a bit of shopping for the kids at the museum, we
drove south to have lunch at JC Mickelson's Restaurant next to the Nephi Supercharger.
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On this entire trip the only time we almost had trouble charging was when a gas car blocks
a place where electric cars charge.
Among EV drivers such spots are said to be "ICEd".
At Nephi, four Tesla Supercharger stalls were filled by Miata club members on
tour through Utah.
Fortunately for today mine was the only Tesla around, and there were two stalls remaining.
While we were having lunch the Miata drivers returned and looked at my car
with a look that seemed like it was the first time they saw a Tesla charging.
Cost to Charge: $0
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These are not Tesla's.
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| Beaver Supercharger
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 1:40 pm | Departed Nephi | 245 |
| 3:11 pm | Arrived Beaver Supercharger | 96 |
Range/Distance ratio: 1.12
Conditions: 80-mph speed limit, 90°F
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This segment of driving drove by beautiful farmland and natural rock formations,
changing as we traveled south.
Keeping to my rule of a bathroom break no more than about every two hours we
stopped at the Beaver Supercharger for that and some smoothies at the nearby Dairy Queen.
If you look ahead to the next leg we had enough charge in the car to make the next leg.
Mine was the only Tesla to be seen.
Cost to Charge: $0
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| Destination Charging at Grand Lodge, Brian Head, Utah
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 3:51 pm | Departed Beaver | 222 |
| 4:39 pm | Arrived Grand Lodge at Brian Head | 139 |
Range/Distance ratio: 1.3
Conditions: 72°F
At 9600-feet elevation, Brian Head, Utah, is a ski resort in winter,
so they have plenty of vacancy in summer.
There, the Grand Lodge has a Tesla Destination Charger.
The location works well for us because it is a bit east of I-15, so it's closer
to our destinations tomorrow, and close in altitude to our destinations, so we don't have
to use as much charge climbing uphill. The weather is also cooler.
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Once we checked in, I moved the car to the Tesla charger. While
my car was filling with energy, we relaxed in the pool, then
had a pleasant dinner in the wooded outdoors here.
Cost to Charge: $0
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Dean E. Dauger holds a Ph. D. in physics from UCLA, where his group
created the first Mac cluster in 1998. Dr. Dauger is the award-winning
author in multiple American Institute of Physics' Software Contests and
co-authored the original, award-winning Kai's Power Tools
image-processing package for Adobe Photoshop.
After founding his company,
Dauger Research, Inc., its debut product,
Pooch, derived from Dr. Dauger's experience using clusters for his
physics research, was soon awarded as "most innovative" by IEEE Cluster
and continues to revolutionize parallel computing and clusters worldwide
with its patented technology.
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