The towed run home: down off the high desert into the Nevada heat

Day four is the run home, and it starts before the heat. Out of the Mesquite hotel at 6:08 in the morning, Trip A reading 7,626.8, the same odometer that closed Day 3 the night before. Trip B reset, the Ducati still strapped in the enclosed U-Haul, and the truck pointed southwest into the low desert.

The first stop is a splash, not a fill. Thirty-two towed miles down to the Moapa Supercharger, about 35 minutes on a flat, gently downhill stretch that held around 1.5 mi/kWh, and a quick 41.98 kWh for $19.73 at $0.47 per kWh, the priciest paid charge of the run. The point is not to fill the battery, it is to get ahead of the July heat and the pull into Las Vegas before switching back to the free Rivian network.

By 8:20 the rig was in Las Vegas, back on the free Rivian network with the whole towing setup, truck and enclosed trailer, parked at a charger while the Tesla Superchargers sat idle across the lot. The Mesquite to Las Vegas leg came in at 90.6 miles on 60 kWh, about 1.49 mi/kWh towing across the flat, hot desert, the ambient already up to 89 degrees. Trip A stood around 7,717. Two paid Tesla splashes and one free Rivian fill, and the enclosed box holding a steady 1.5 towing across the low desert.

The rest of the day, the miles beyond Las Vegas toward home, logs as the dashboards arrive.