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Thanks! The eGolf really does suffer very little draw while sitting idle. I used to just leave it unplugged whenever I left for 2-3 week vacations and upon returning, will have lost very little power/mileage. If the battery management system is a big draw, then that makes sense as to how much...

Thanks for this! I didn't really realize that there is active cooling being done on the battery on Telsas. Thank you for the detailed response! I will keep it plugged in from now on, when it is not being driven. I was mostly leaving it unplugged to gather data on what to expect in terms of...

That's a fair question. As I said, I'm a bit of a conservative driver, so even if there wasn't traffic preventing me from driving at higher speeds, I typically don't tend to do so. I would say that both in the eGolf and the Model 3, I have been driving around 90-110 km/h. Maybe I've been...

I appreciate that this question has been asked an infinite number of times already and I have been working my way through the threads. There are a lot, but I haven't yet come across a thread where somebody was getting 230km out of a possible 350km yet. If I was getting 300km then that wouldn't...

Hey thanks for the reply! You are correct with your educated guess, I was trying to get a sense of how much mileage one charge was going to give me, but I didn't drive a lot last week, so it did sit idle most of the time! I'll keep in mind the idle energy draw and try to factor that in. Does...

Hi there, Sorry for starting yet another range thread, but I'm new to Tesla but not to electric cars and something feels wrong, so I'm hoping to see what others who have more experience think. Background for my comparisons: I owned a Volkswagen eGolf for 3 years with 200km (125 mile) range...