@Kincaid Do you have it set to show
rated or
ideal range?
My preference, of course, is always to be an optimist, so I have strived to have the ideal health, ideal wife, ideal kids, ideal job, ideal houses, and ideal cars & boats. Alas, I admit, it's a tricky path navigating those fantasies.
I kept the 90D set to "Ideal" range (it's under "Settings", then "Units and Format") as a means of encouraging myself to keep my driving habits oriented towards energy conservation. So I do the same with the 100D.
It will be fun to strive to nurse the mileage range up to 350 miles on the new 100D battery pack. But MP3Mike is absolutely correct to point out that the differences between "ideal" and "rated" are the same as those between "the idea and the reality." As a matter of pure psychology, if that display tells me I have a 350 mile range, then I am going to have some fun trying to reach that ideal goal. Of course, I am allowing for a few exceptions along the way, as in zooming out of bottlenecked traffic on a 10 lane highway at 90 mph for a few seconds to put the slugs who have been slowing things down way behind me, then settling back down to an energy conserving, ideal speed. That, after all, is what we like best about these Teslas we all have, even though we are all probably pretty good at dressing up our ambitions by talking about the horrors of gas, pollution, and antiquated technology, and the joys of clean air and energy conservation.
Did I ever get to the point, on any drive over the last six months, where my actual range reached the goal of my ideal range?
Nope. Not once. I'll keep trying. The closest I ever come is on the trips back from both Squaw Valley and Yosemite to Silicon Valley. It's a steep downhill run for the first 50 miles or so, and the Tesla charges up the battery power instead of expending power. Thanks to that wonderful network of Superchargers, I can ignore the battery power it took to get up those mountains.
