According to recent tweets on their blog, Peter Soukup, Tina Thomas and Luba Roytburd slept in Athens, Georgia, last night. That’s point G on the map above. They have driven over 4,000 miles and should arrive in New York city on Sunday (or Monday, at the latest). Their trip shatters any misconceptions about taking road trips with an EV, at least in a Tesla Model S.
The first entry in their blog was made by Peter, who caught a 3 Am flight from Washington, DC, to Portland, Oregon, on Christmas eve. He picked up his Tesla Model S at the local dealership and met Tina up at the airport. They didn’t leave until the following day, had Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Corvallis, then drove on to Ashland on the California border.
A Tesla Model S has driven more than half way across North America. Tina Thomas and Peter Soukup left Portland, Oregon, on December 25 and their last tweet, posted twenty hours ago, states “And into Alabama as the sun sets :).” They are expected to reach New York City by January 7th or 8th.
They picked up a friend close to LA. Ruba Loytburd wrote, “This was my first day on Electric Road Trip S, but day 5 for Tina and Peter. After leaving Erin and Dave’s (thanks again, guys!) we headed out to Tesla’s supercharger at Hawthorn CA for a quick charging “top off.” A supercharger charges up the battery to full in about an hour as an opposed to about 8 hours on regular 50amp stove outlet. So I started out the trip pretty spoiled.”
Peder Norby’s interest in renewable energy goes back to his wind powered home in Denmark. Even then, Peder knew that someday he would drive an electric vehicle. In 2005, he and Julie built a 4,600 square house, overlooking the Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad. Peder wanted a cheaper form of transportation, powered by sunshine. Julie was more concerned that it be dependable, comfortable and fun to drive. They installed 21 solar panels on the roof and a year later bought their first EV. Like most first time EV owners, they assumed it would be necessary to hang on to their “gas car.” That proved to be true until 2009, when Peder bought a BMW Mini E. As a County of San Diego Planning Commissioner, he drives all over the county, but found the Mini E was taking care of all his needs. His gas car just sat in the garage. So he sold it.
Thanks to the bot onslaught which started late last October, Cortes Currents website’s viewership doubled – going from 43,049 people in 2024 to 90,499 bots and people in 2025. This was despite the fact I was away for three months (May-July) and working less hours than normal for the duration of the year.
Visitors came from 4,034 ‘cities’ and the top 10, in terms of numbers, were:
32,650 bots came from Lanzhou, China, and stayed for a fraction of a second
There may have been some humans among the 17,591 visitors from Shanghai, which is why they stayed an average of 6 seconds
Up until 2025, hundreds of our most dedicated viewers came from an ‘undesignated‘ location and their visits averaged 4 minutes or more. They are undoubtedly still humans coming, but this route has largely been taken over by bots. 10,219 bots and humans stayed an average of 47 seconds.
5,293 humans came from Vancouver and stayed 2 min 18 sec.
3,235 humans came from ‘Campbell River.’ which includes Cortes Island, Quarda Island and other parts of Greater Campbell River: average visit lasted 4 min 45 sec
There may be some bots among the 1,451 vistors from Toronto who stayed 37 secs
43,049 people made 107,177 pageviews (PV) on Cortes Currents during 2024; 6,365 were returning users; the average visit in Greater Campbell River was 6min 32 sec; 21,244 plays
The Top 6 posts on Cortes Currents were:
4,004 people scanned the homepage 10,554 times, averaging 49 seconds.
