For the last six years, I’ve done road trips all over the Western US in various EVs. Most of these journeys were made in my own Tesla Model 3 (which I no longer own), and within range of the Supercharger network. But as a car journalist, I’ve also had the opportunity to drive almost every EV under the sun. Some of these travels took me off the beaten path, sometimes in non-Tesla EVs, away from reliable charging infrastructure.
In other words, when it comes to EV road trips, it’s not my first rodeo. So when my spouse suggested we spend a few days in Detroit and then drive deep into the woods of Northern Michigan’s upper peninsula to go glamping for their birthday, I was on board. But could we really do this road trip in an EV? Northern Michigan’s upper peninsula isn’t particularly ripe with EV chargers, and we’d be driving about 50 miles on unpaved forest roads.
