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Trip highlights, some of which may also be firsts for an electric car.
Attempts to be the first car to get to various challenging places on electricity alone.
* Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles's Miracle Mile to pay homage to Kris Trexler's EV1
* Beverly Hills / Hollywood
* Bakersfield
* Giant Sequoia National Monument
* Kern River Valley
* Trona Pinnacles
* Owens Lake
* Death Valley / Badwater Basin (EV1 #CA 3X1A015, leased by Darrell Singleton, already did this feat.)
* Las Vegas Strip
* Hoover Dam
* Route 66
* Flagstaff
* Oak Creek Canyon / Sedona
* Montezuma Castle National Monument
* Granite Dells
* Lake Pleasant
* Downtown Phoenix
* Downtown Tucson
* Biosphere 2
* Roosevelt Lake
* The old GM Mesa Desert Proving Grounds (where most of the EV1s were destroyed)
* Petrified Forest National Park / Painted Desert
* Meteor Crater
* Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
* Wupatki National Monument
* Grand Canyon National Park
* Glen Canyon Dam
* Monument Valley
* Goosenecks State Park
* Natural Bridges National Monument
* Upper Glen Canyon
* Arches National Park
* Moab
* Colorado National Monument
* Grand Mesa
* Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
* Telluride, Ouray
* Marble
* Hanging Lake
* Aspen, Vail, Independence Pass.
* Eisenhower Tunnel
* Downtown Denver
* Rocky Mountain National Park
* Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska
* Des Moines, Iowa
* Various open pit mines and environmentally contaminated areas.
* Various solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal plant visits.
* Descent, 3500 feet to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
* Summit, Devils Head Peak, AZ (9127 ft. elev)
* Crown King ghost town / heart of the Bradshaw Mountains
* Organ Pipe National Monument / Lukeville border crossing
* Summit, Mount Union (7979 ft. elev, 2939 ft. prominence)
* Summit, Kitt Peak (6875 ft. elev, 2100 ft. prominence)
* Summit, Pinal Peak (7850 ft. elev, 4090 ft. prominence)
* The Mogollon Rim
* Lockett Meadow, San Francisco Peaks
* SP Crater
* Betatakin
* Moki Dugway
* The Maze Overlook, Canyonlands National Park (one of the hardest-to-get-to places in one of the most desolate national parks in the US)
* Schaffer Trail
* Dead Horse Point State Park
* Imogene (13114 ft), Hurricane (13170 ft), and Cinnamon (12620 ft) passes.
* Summit, Mount Evans (14240 ft elev, 2764 ft prominence) (highest drivable point in North America, and a new electric car altitude record)
* Trail Ridge Road