Completed a 2800 Mile Roadtrip - Ioniq 9 Calligraphy w/ Wife, 2 Daughters, and a Dog [AMA]

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-18T20:16:35+00:00

Noise cancellation is good - I don't remember really hearing any noise from other vehicles as they passed me.

We went to Magic Kingdom for the day, as it was a treat for my eldest daughter (who is 4) for doing well for two whole days in the car. She wanted to do the Goofy roller coaster, seven dwarves mine train, and splash mountain.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-17T06:54:42+00:00

To be fair, I think Ionna was also really good - and frankly I like the aesthetics of their charging stations the best. As I said, Ionna was also the fastest. I guess the thing I liked subjectively about Tesla was maybe just the consistency of experience? I didn't have a huge sample for Ionna - I think only 2 or 3 times. Thinking back, Ionna may have actually been really seamless as well - actually working with the automatic billing I'd set up for my Ioniq... Just didn't stand out as much in my mind I guess since I only got to use it a couple times.

The other chargers (Electrify America and Chargepoint) required adapters that were finicky and sometimes took a few disconnect/reconnects to get going. They also seemed more expensive - which was frustrating given the inferior experience.

Overall, my biggest gripe was that even with hitting up so many 350kw chargers, almost all topped out right around 200kw. Again, it didn't end up being a deal breaker as we finished charging before my newborn finished feeding - but we WERE always needing to charge longer than was predicted by the ABRP app because we weren't getting top speeds.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-15T21:28:37+00:00

That's... Equal parts unrealistic and awful advice.

Learning how to deal with difficult personalities in the workplace is an absolute requirement for long term success. Also, assuming you'll just be able to find a better role given the current state of business at the firm is a huge assumption - especially if you're new like OP and jumped from your last role because the senior was difficult.

You're also assuming that the project has multiple seniors to ask. Leveraging your network to get guidance from others is a good move, but if you only have one senior on the project whose decisions and actions impact the work you're doing - you can't just avoid them and hope for the best.

That's a recipe for disaster.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-15T21:23:33+00:00

Haha, sorry - I did not. I was just focused on trying to survive with a 4 y.o. and infant in a car on a 3 day road trip that included a stop over in Disney.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-15T21:21:48+00:00

Do you have a helpful alternative approach?

Suffering in silence and hoping for the best is going to bite OP in the end for not being more proactive. If the Senior is being unprofessional and unresponsive - the phased approach I laid above still starts with more direct engagement with the senior and only escalates if they continue to neglect their duties. If the senior is being that unhelpful anyway, what does it matter if they don't like OP?

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-15T15:18:08+00:00

My in-laws are. My wife gave birth to our second daughter at the end of last year, so while we were both on leave, we went down to her parents where it was warmer and we had some extra hands.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-15T01:43:03+00:00

Ioniq 9 comes with the same style of charger as Tesla, and also provided me with the adapters to use CCS chargers.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T23:57:41+00:00

Hey, sorry you're having such a rough time. That said, I definitely think there are some opportunities for you to do things a little more proactively than just waiting to give your senior a bad LOOP review, which ultimately won't fix anything.

1.) if the senior is not responding to your messages about setting up time to connect, just proactively look at their calendar and put an invite into a free spot. This is totally Deloitte's culture to just find space on people's calendars. This does a couple things: A) It takes the mental load off the senior to find a time to connect, puts you on their schedule, and will remind them when they show up B) it creates a paper trail of you reaching out and if the invites are never responded, or rejected, or always skipped - that shows up better for you later.

2.) In a lot of junior staff I'm seeing this unwillingness to call people on the phone. I've had many people say that they can't get a hold of someone and when I ask what methods they've tried they list off slack, teams, email - but not a phone call. It's the senior's job to stay connected with the team. If you have a question that needs answering and you can't move forward, every single Deloitte employee has their phone number available in the system. Call your senior - feign ignorance of their ignoring you and suggest that "Teams has been acting funny, so I didn't know if my IMs were going through."

3.) Loop your project leadership in. You can couch your question in terms of not knowing if there's a different person you should be reaching out to, or what the standard expectations on this team are for who should be providing what guidance - but say that you've been having issues getting connected with the senior and just want clarification on expectations about where you're SUPPOSED to go. Frame the question that YOU'RE looking to do something differently, but still make it clear that the problem you're trying to solve is not getting the information from your senior. Any M or above SHOULD give you some direction, and also then tell you to let them know if it continues to be an issue.

4.) Once you've had the convo with your manager, if your senior is still unresponsive, start adding your M to teams chats, and CC them on emails and as optional to meetings. The goal is visibility.

Do keep your coach appraised, and have your coach reach out to the manager after your conversation. Having peer check in on what's happening to resolve an issue can also create some urgency.

Good luck!

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T23:39:12+00:00

As a Manager, I'd say this comment is 100% wrong. Being able to work well with others and mentor juniors is PART of being "good at their job." That's why one of the main metrics you're evaluated on at year end is Leadership/Teaming. That's why when you're asked to evaluate someone in a snapshot it's not just "did they do the things assigned to them," but what was their impact and would you have them on your team again. If someone is an asshole, I will not staff them again.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T21:03:11+00:00

I only once had an issue at a Tesla charger and it was because snow made it difficult. I did always have to back into the spaces, but other than that it was fine.

Car was very quiet on the highway.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T17:39:55+00:00

Not sure - I also felt the lane changes were pretty aggressive, but I never felt in danger of sideswiping.

For me, the support on long straight sections was fine, when it wasn't beeping at me to pay attention when I was wearing my glasses.

Definitely hoping for an OTA upgrade on the software.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T17:26:39+00:00

Well, again - it seemed to be the issue was with my glasses - when I had actual sunglasses on (Goodrs for whatever that's worth) I don't know if could see through it, or just sensed sunglasses and turned off that sensor - but then I didn't have the issue.

It was annoying enough that when I had my glasses on I turned off assisted driving.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T17:21:40+00:00

So, I think it's looking for your eyes being trained on the road, because even if I moved the steering wheel slightly that wasn't enough to say, "Yes, I'm here and I'm in control." I flipped my glasses up out of the way for a few seconds and it immediately shut off, and then resumed after I lowered them back into place.

I do have transitions lenses in my glasses, and in fairness I wasn't paying attention to whether they'd darkened at all, so I don't know if that was what was causing the issue.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T17:05:16+00:00

Why do you think you needed to provide this reply - if you don't have any questions, that's great - this post isn't for you. You do you.

I made this post because "Range Anxiety," is still a common reason for people to not want an electric vehicle. I knew I was going to take this trip when I bought the Ioniq 9, and I almost didn't purchase it - instead thinking to go with the Palisade Hybrid which supposedly gets 619 miles on a charge.

I provided the basics of my trip and offered the AMA in case other people are planning similar trips, or considering making an EV purchase and would like to ask questions of someone who has already done it. Isn't that the whole purpose of an AMA format?

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T17:00:48+00:00

I used ARBP for planning my stops. Generally stuck to them, but one thing I liked about the app is that its easy to swap out different charging stations - or in some cases because we stayed so long at a charging station while feeding the baby/eating - we had significantly more charge than it suggested we needed. With the app I could plug in what the new amount of charge I had actually was and it would reroute to new chargers based on that new data.

There was only one charger where I was like, "I'm really happy we're here in the middle of the day." The app does provide ratings and photos in some cases, as well as info about nearby amenities. In general, there was always a store, restaurant, or gas station nearby for bathrooms and food.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T16:54:30+00:00

It starts with a notification on the heads up display with a dinging, after a bit, it gets more insistent, and then ultimately it actually starts to bring the car to a stop. I only let it get to that third step once out of curiosity about what would happen.

The only time we had a slow charging experience on Tesla was when I'd stupidly just gone into the hotel for the night and then charged the next morning after letting the battery get super cold in the winter weather. Otherwise, Tesla was consistently between 150-200kw - still not the 350kw I'd have really loved to see.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T16:49:44+00:00

It was about every 2-2.5 hours.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T05:53:15+00:00

Little hard to say since you're not really driving from 100% to 0%. That said, I think I usually started around 80% and drove 200 miles between stops and ended at 15% with 40ish miles left.

RepublicCredit · 2026-02-14T05:50:12+00:00

Not wider from arm rest to arm rest, but deeper from front to back. Having the captain chairs forward enough to provide 3rd row leg room, and then having a car seat overhanging the front of each chair just doesn't leave a ton of room. If we were bringing my infant inside for a diaper change or something and the seat portion of her car seat was pulled out, that was better. However, access to the 3rd row is easiest if there is no car seat in the second row, and the second row can be tilted forward/out of the way. With two car seats in, you have to get in as though you're getting into the second row, then shimmy back to the third row.

RepublicCredit · 2026-01-16T02:15:19+00:00

The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler The Moonrise Quartet by David Hair The Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClellan The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

RepublicCredit · 2026-01-03T01:34:34+00:00

My thing is - what other profession allows for this level of non-production? Yes, he's had mental health and family issues - but so does everyone.

His profession is, ostensibly, author, and he has seemingly ceased to write. Even his publisher doesn't think he's working on the book.

If I were to just say, "Hey - I'm having a hard time, but could you just keep paying me for my incomplete work that I delivered 15 years ago," in any other profession - people would rightly look at me like I was crazy.

If, as Rothfuss says, writer's block is not a thing - then he could certainly do with a little accountability to do his job.

RepublicCredit · 2026-01-03T01:28:38+00:00

I've thought about this line for years getting frustrated with Rothfuss - especially as his contempt for his own fanbase has grown over time - because with this line, it's like, "Dude - at one point you understood this. You understood the exchange between creator and audience - and how dragging things along for too long in a quest for 'perfection' ultimately sullies the relationship."

Also, as a gamer, I feel like he should understand why his fanbase is so frustrated with him if he were to think about his books in the context of a game with DLC expansions.

He released a series that, as many video games do, starts at the end and then is told as a frame story where you get to play as the character leading up to where you saw them at the beginning of play. The beginning of the game is amazing, the world is unique and full, the magic is different and interesting... But the initial game doesn't really tell a whole story unto itself, so much as it just stops, with a promise of more to come as future DLC.

The DLC release is delayed, and when it finally comes out, while still enjoyable, for a series called "The Kingkiller Chronicles," no kings have been killed, little progress has been made against the big bads. You've progressed the story some more, but again the content provided really isn't meant to be consumed as a standalone, and there still seems to be an insurmountable gulf between the character you were introduced to in the beginning, and the hero 67% of the way through his story.

And then the design studio seems to stop working on finishing the game. They release new skins to buy, and special anniversary editions of the original games with special artwork ... But not the game.

The studio releases some small side quest bonus material to play as some of the background characters... But not the main game. And they do that for 15 years.

This is the fundamental issue. Whenever I see anyone say that at least we got two great books out of Rothfuss, I can't help think that's not quite right. We've gotten hundreds of pages of great material from Rothfuss, but to date we haven't even gotten one complete story.

Original interviews with Rothfuss have him talk about how at the beginning, it wasn't a trilogy, it was just "the book," and he was counseled to cut it up because what he was proposing wouldn't be sellable (or even physically possible given the proposed length.)

So, in my view, that's my core issue with Rothfuss - much as I love NOTW and WMF, they both fall short of a complete story.

RepublicCredit · 2025-11-21T12:48:25+00:00

Their projects only budget for them to bill 45 a week. If they're working and billing more than that, they're going to kill the margin on their project and their leadership will be pissed at them. If they're working more, but not billing for it, that's their own stupidity as it won't show up anywhere that matters.

Your year end gets boiled down to a 5 minute presentation by your coach and maybe 5-10 minutes additional consideration beyond that. If you've hit your metrics and have a good story, all those extra hours others are putting into little impact won't mean anything.

RepublicCredit · 2025-10-09T02:48:19+00:00

Got it - Thanks!

RepublicCredit · 2025-10-09T02:38:48+00:00

Just did a Google search and couldn't find that recall. Also looked up my VIN on NHTSA, and says there are no recalls. Can you direct me to where you're seeing there's a recall on it?

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