I assume no one wants to go back and read pages and pages of this post and for some reason I can't edit the original one. As of right now there's more than enough range after tinkering a bit.
As far as addressing a longer range vehicle, we ordered the sr+ at the recommendation of Tesla. We were basically made to believe as I said before that the long range was only available of we also bought awd. Obviously I shouldn't have relied soley on the employees of the manufacturer and should have leaned on the community at the time. Would have happily ordered a LR RWD. Lastly, our return period was voided according to Tesla when I asked because we got an instant rebate from NYS. All that being said, I think we are OK now. It was pretty cold yesterday and she drove to work, took a detour of about 10 minutes off her route to pick me up, then we stopped another ten minutes off the route. When we got home we still had 20% battery available. I'm fine with that.