Road Trips

Planning a route around real charging stops: margins that survive a detour, and what towing or a roof rack does to range between them.

Road Trips September 5, 2026 EV Towing Range Loss: What a Roof Box Really Costs A tow rating is a stability number, not an energy number. Here is how to turn a trailer or a roof box into your own kWh per mile, then into a stop count. 10 min read
Road Trips August 19, 2026 EV Road Trip Planning: The Buffer Planners Skip Route planners quote an arrival percentage with no error bars on it. Here is how to stack speed, cold, altitude and station risk into a margin you can defend. 9 min read

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The first charger took a board vote and nine months; the second took a permit, a load calculation, and one afternoon. Tessa Vandermolen kept the paperwork from both installs — applications, the inspector's correction notice, utility EV tariff sheets — and PlugPath is where those documents get explained. She is not an electrician or an electrical inspector, so nothing here is an instruction to wire anything: it is a record of what the code sections, statutes, and forms actually say, each one linked.

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