You might want to disown yourself from those passengers. Your car, your rules!I'll have to echo this sentiment. Passengers who are aggressive or backseat drivers themselves and want to get somewhere ASAP, the 250-300 mile trips can be annoying only because of the possibility of that passenger pushing you to leave without as full of a charge as you might like. It's actually funny to think they know better than an actual owner. So I'd have to say: MS owners, be wary of who you take on a road trip!
I took a trip from Garden Grove to San Diego (~100 miles) yesterday in my 70D. Fully charged before I left registered 236 rated miles on the dashboard, and by the time we were ready to leave San Diego, I arrived at the SD Supercharger with about 30 miles remaining. 15 minutes later it had charged up to about 120 miles, and one of my passengers insisted I'd have enough to get home.
Instead of trying to explain that 120 miles on the dash is probably more like 100 or 110 depending on how I drive (he's an aggressive driver and kept urging me to basically "floor it" every chance I got), and considering no one knew how far it actually was back home (we had decided to take side streets to avoid the freeway traffic), I just said for peace of mind, let's stay here for another 5-10 mins.
We charged to 150 miles at the Supercharger, and by the time I dropped everyone off and arrived back at my house, I had close to 30 miles remaining. Meaning, if I had listened to him and left the Supercharger at 120 miles on the battery, I may not have made it home.
250 miles.......that's L.A. Metro to Vegas, aggravated in the Tesla by the two hills, meaning 2 stops if you're trying to drive fast.Cebe said:
This is definitely the benefit of the destination charging program. I always schedule my plans around hotels with chargers if possible.
I thought about that for the recent trip to the All-Star game in San Diego. Unfortunately the hotels with chargers seem to be the $400/night places. We saw 2 of them at the Del Coronado where we went to the beach before the game. This is also true at Mammoth, where we try to sleep cheap. The permitting of the Mammoth supercharger last October was what put us over the top to place our order.ohmman said:
This is not always the case. On our recent road trip, we stayed at a Hilton, Holiday Inn Express, Best Western, Four Seasons, and Westin (Mammoth) which all had chargers. The first three were certainly on the less expensive side, and the latter two more expensive.
Bamboozle them with numbers/arithmetic/statistics!
How do you come up with the percent range yourself though?
I find it easier to think in terms of a 1.x multiplier for the rated miles range vs the distance that needs to be covered.
Bamboozle them with numbers/arithmetic/statistics!
How do you come up with the percent range yourself though?
I find it easier to think in terms of a 1.x multiplier for the rated miles range vs the distance that needs to be covered.
+1 The rate of charging at a supercharger exceeds 80mph until you get up to ~90%SOC.TaoJones said:
Well, at least there's no waiting in line for a charging spot. So it's got that going for it, which is nice.
Unless your family members are far different than mine, you're stopping that often in an ICE. The majority of my long distance trips are about 700 miles one way. I don't notice any difference in the times between the Model S and the previous ICE cars.
