WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
If you have EMails to do (e.g. that you would normally do and either leave-work-later or do-when-get-home) then the time at Supercharger will be time neutral
But otherwise get Work to install some chargers ... poor show for employer not to be greener by this time
although potentially loads of mitigating circumstances. The local council (or some government body like that) chipped in 50% for the chargers we put in at work. We offer that for free to employees as a perk ... and looks good when visitors arrive to see a row of car chargers in the car park 13AMP socket in your work car park might do you. 13AMP = 7 MPH (maybe 9 MPH if your motorway drive is < 70 MPH for traffic), so if you are there 8 hours that's a 55 mile top-up - might be enough to get you home.
Suggest you stick your commute into ABetterRoutePlanner and see what it says. You can fiddle with it to set departure as 100% and you could also tell it that you will charge at work for 8 hours at 2.4 AMPs ... and see if that will get you home. And also set winter temperature of 5C to see if that gets borderline.
need to consider your overnight charging rate too. lets assume 7kW gives you 25 MPH. A 4 hour overnight cheap-rate (such as Octopus) is only going to get you 100 miles ... Economy-7 (not as cheap) might be better as 7 hours will get you 175 miles. Still might not be enough
Talking of winter temperatures, I assume for a 135 mile commute that you will likely leave early AM. When I did that I used TeslaFi (or similar) to schedule some events for the car. Drop the Charge Limit to 80% just before Off Peak, and then 1h30m before departure change Limit to 90% and start charging again (to warm the battery shortly before departure) and then 15 minutes/whatever before departure warm the cabin (i.e. of mains juice). Weekdays only.
You could set Limit to 100% at a suitable interval before departure to make sure fully charged when you depart, and that would also mean that battery would only be sitting at 100% for minimum time (and another event to change back to 90% a bit later so you don't forget ...). if you are geeky enough to like that sort of thing
Yeah, 1st time around "I couldn't afford not to have it" too ... and once the Plaid is here I guess I'll be back in that boat.
The "shove" from MSP from launch was totally sorted, not so much from MS/M3/MY "bog standard" - dunno why. Might be bigger rear motor doing the push is easier to get balanced than same size motor front-and-back. P probably has bigger brakes and stuff too ... So P might be better (for you, in any event) than AB
... but whilst the floor-it never got tired, I just didn't need it other than away-from-the-lights, and in 3.5 years (at a time when they were rare on the road) I only had one occasion where something interesting pulled up alongside me and I needed to explain why he was ruining the planet and needed to shift to EV
Now those sorts of car drivers know they will be beaten from the lights by an M3 SR so they are unlikely to be entertained any more ...Surprised to hear that (I've not done the sums). Taycan would drive better round a bend and I expect a lot more comfortable. But MS scratches my itch. supercar performance, daily-driver, can get 5 adults in, and their luggage ... or put the seats down to haul rash eBay cargo purchases!
My "toy", when I got MSP, was a Lotus-7 thingie with V8 / 300bhp and 750kg. Lots of fun / noise. Never drove it after I got the MSP- as in "not once". The noise was tiring (not the point, I know ...) and the MSP was faster
and "Could you come home via station to pick up some unexpected guests" became doable. Although I never figured out how to drive MSP on opposite lock for 100 yards after coming out of a right-hand-turn T-junction ...
