2025 Year in Review
Long time, no see! It's been a rough year for Electric Route 66, so the blog has taken a back seat to life. Complicated things like major medical issues and deaths in the family have kept our travel limited this year, but I wanted to get a solid post in for the end of 2025 covering some of the highlights of our EV and Route 66 activity. Congratulations in advance if you make it all the way through this post; buckle up and maybe grab a snack because this is the longest post I've ever written, by far! It's all fun and games until someone falls out of the hole. First, hardware. Our road trip car The Blue Spirit has been showing its age a little; it's still running great but the range is down to under 230 miles, more than 25% below its original EPA range estimate of 310 miles. This is a bigger drop than typical for a Tesla Model 3, but we do drive it with abandon. As my Dad would have put it, it's frequently been "rode hard and put away wet." Odometer mileag...