Efficiency battery range question:
Today I'm leaving on a trip that is 169 miles to destination. My Y says it has 320mile range. Sounds great! Except it's an up hill grade nearly the whole way as I love in low desert and traveling to a river resort in Needles, ca.
There are no charging stations between me and it.
Can I make it?? Should I take direct route Tesla says to and trust the car??? Or should I go the longer way , 75 miles uphill thru morongo valley, & stop in twenty nine palms - recharge and continue 144 miles to needles
It's a real quandary for me.
As I've noticed I can go very far downhill or on level terrain and can watch the battery tic downward like the gas tank on a V8 pulling a 5th wheel uphill on the upgrades.
Today I'm leaving on a trip that is 169 miles to destination. My Y says it has 320mile range. Sounds great! Except it's an up hill grade nearly the whole way as I love in low desert and traveling to a river resort in Needles, ca.
There are no charging stations between me and it.
Can I make it?? Should I take direct route Tesla says to and trust the car??? Or should I go the longer way , 75 miles uphill thru morongo valley, & stop in twenty nine palms - recharge and continue 144 miles to needles
It's a real quandary for me.
As I've noticed I can go very far downhill or on level terrain and can watch the battery tic downward like the gas tank on a V8 pulling a 5th wheel uphill on the upgrades.