650 mile road trip, CA to WA, didn't see one Tesla!

[eustachio]

I live in the Bay area, where I see several Teslas every time I drive. In the parking lot at work there are lots too.

We just drove up to southern Washington, a 650 mile trip, and I was curious and excited to see how many Teslas we would encounter on the journey. (We'll be buying a M3 in the next month or so, and I've been plotting routes on ABRP, including this one).

I saw not one single Tesla the entire time, whether on the freeway or at rest stops. Our current hotel has none in the parking lot either, despite having 2 Tesla destination chargers and 4 level 2 chargers.

I'm surprised, and looking forward to bucking the trend on this route soon!

I guess less people are taking long road trips than I expected, at least in this part of the world. Or is something else accounting for it?

 

[ChrisH]

I live in the Bay area, where I see several Teslas every time I drive. In the parking lot at work there are lots too.

We just drove up to southern Washington, a 650 mile trip, and I was curious and excited to see how many Teslas we would encounter on the journey. (We'll be buying a M3 in the next month or so, and I've been plotting routes on ABRP, including this one).

I saw not one single Tesla the entire time, whether on the freeway or at rest stops. Our current hotel has none in the parking lot either, despite having 2 Tesla destination chargers and 4 level 2 chargers.

I'm surprised, and looking forward to bucking the trend on this route soon!

I guess less people are taking long road trips than I expected, at least in this part of the world. Or is something else accounting for it?

Seems like a fluke. But I don’t think there would be any at rest stops because people stop at superchargers and eat and use the restroom near those.

 

[eustachio]

Seems like a fluke. But I don’t think there would be any at rest stops because people stop at superchargers and eat and use the restroom near those.

Rest stops I get, although a call of nature defies schedules, especially with small children.

Even driving around up here, in Vancouver WA area, I've yet to see a single EV or PHEV.

 

[Thomas Edison]

I saw 36 model 3s yesterday driving 130 miles all around the Portland metro area (yes, I counted). About 15 were on the highway.

 

[verystandard]

I think I saw 15 Tesla model 3 yesterday when I drive around Vancouver.

Interestingly 8 of them are White color, 2 of them are blue, 1 red and 3 black. I have one that i can't tell which color because it is covered with dirt.

 

[Kant.Ing]

Blinded by love!

 

[ChrisH]

Rest stops I get, although a call of nature defies schedules, especially with small children.

Even driving around up here, in Vancouver WA area, I've yet to see a single EV or PHEV.

Yeah that seems odd. I don’t see them every day living in Auburn, WA and driving between auburn and Tacoma periodically but I see them occasionally and I work in Seattle where I see at least one most days.

 

[ralph142]

I typically see 1-2 a day just driving around bellingham, the odd S and X as well.

 

[ammulder]

For some reason I have it in my mind that I don’t see that many Teslas normally. But today on a 5 miles drive I ended up driving behind a 3 and we passed an S going the opposite direction. And that kind of thing happens a lot. But somehow it still seems unusual. I need to retrain my NN I guess...