Me and my two daughters at the start of the 1,200-mile trip from Littleton, Colo. to Goleta, Calif. on Tues., July 24.
The Chevy Bolt made the 6,000-foot climb from Denver to the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70.
Taking a break near Vail Pass, Colo.
Mountain Chevrolet in Glenwood Springs, Colo. allows Bolt drivers to plug in to its DCFC station for free.
Ready to take off with a full battery from the Green River Utah KOA in my 2017 Chevy Bolt in Summer of 2018.
Some of the beautiful landscape in Utah.
My daughter takes a break on the edge of a canyon in central Utah.
Our 2017 Chevy Bolt plugged in to a Level 2 charger after the DCFC station on the right turned out not to work 🙁
My daughters take a break inside the Maverick store in Fillmore, Utah.
My 2017 Chevy Bolt Charging at a DCFC station in Cedar City, Utah in Summer 2018.
My younger daughter has some fun with the camera while we wait for the Bolt to charge.
The view from our hotel window at The Excalibur in Las Vegas.
Charging at an EV go DCFC station near Santa Clarita, Calif.
Our Bolt at sunset on the Pacific Ocean after we completed a 1,200-mile trip from Denver to Santa Barbara in Summer 2018.
The family “crew” at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Our Chevy Bolt plugged in at my sister’s in Goleta, Calif. in Summer 2018 following a 1,200-mile trip from Littleton, Colo.
An all-electric car with a Colorado plate at the Pacific Ocean in Goleta, Calif. — very cool!
The view of Coal-Oil Point beach in Goleta, Calif.
You can drive an electric car from Colorado to the California Coast and back — but many consumers don’t know that you can. [Photo by Christof Demont-Heinrich]
I temporarily parked our Bolt in a handicapped space to get this “LEAF sandwich” photo :-).
Me in front of my 2017 Chevy Bolt in Santa Barbara, Calif. after successfully completing a 1,200-mile journey there from Littleton, Colo. in Summer of 2018. [Photo by Amanda Heinrich]
I recently completed a 1,200-mile road trip from Denver to Santa Barbara in my all-electric 2017 Chevy Bolt with my two teen-age daughters. In a few days, we’ll turn around and do the reverse trip from Santa Barbara to Denver :-).
In the meantime, I thought I would publish a slideshow of photos I took on the first half of the 2,400-mile round trip.
Yes, you can do a road trip in an 100 percent electric car — and it need not necessarily be in a Tesla, which allows one to plug in to the amazing Supercharger network.
