In keeping with my Clark Griswold, I spent the day hanging Christmas lights on the house, chasing blown fuses and burned out bulbs LOL
Here is the
map I used to plan the trip.
As well as
Teslawiki
Im not sure what kind of real life range you get in the 60. My aviation background proves that all the planning in the world becomes a mear guideline the minute you depart. Weather, winds, temps, traffic all effected speed/fuel/energy burn.
I found I was overly conservative on some legs, and not conservative enough on others. One pilot buddy of mine kept calling me and ribbing me about having to send my kids into WalMart for 9v batteries, all the while very tuned into the real life trip and Tesla performance
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As for the milage, here goes
Newark, NJ - Newark DE ~123 miles, no problem at all. I drove 70-75mph with a few grin enhancing bursts :biggrin:
Newark, DE - Washington DC ~100 miles, again, no problem. Charged at Holiday Inn's garage overnight @ 30A $0.00
If you are on a mission to keep going, the next SC is ~210 miles very doable.
Washington DC - Glenn Allen, NC ~110 miles, Panera bread right there makes this a perfect break.
You could continue south at this point but we made a jog to the west.
Glenn Allen - Burlington, NC ~200 miles SuperCharger with lots of restaurants/shops around to spend an hour charging.
Burlington, NC - Asheville, NC ~195 miles... Lots to do in Asheville while charging at the Hilton Biltmore @ 30amps $0.00 for parking or charging
Asheville NC - Atlanta GA ~200 miles, I planned/made a stop when I should have just continued to ATL. A HUGE Thank You to ColorChrome of ATL for having a 50A outlet on his building and putting it on Plugshare. Many of the factors I mentioned above led me to stop short and put a little juice in to make it to downtown. This is where I had my College/Navy/Delta buddy pick us up and go have dinner. More EV ribbing ensued from this instance. Continued to downtown, parked at Peachtree Center Parking Deck and charged overnight at 30A $0.00 for charging. Hilton 1 block away was $65/night with free breakfast (from the menu, not cold cereal).
Atlanta - Beaver Run RV park Metter, GA ~200 miles... great EV friendly RV park, $5 for ~2hrs and use of the rec room and bath house. She gave the girls ice cream and I gave her $10 (first time paying for any charging, and a bargain at many times the price).
Beaver Run - Savannah ~60miles... charged overnight at the Whitaker St garage @ 30A $0.00 for charging
Savannah - Port Orange ~230 miles... I planned a stop in Fernandina Bch but opted to experiment with "Long Range Cruise" and it worked, we made it to Port Orange with ~10 left and didn't have to make an intermediate stop. We played a game to see how many ICE cars would pass us more than once because they drove fast but had to stop for gas. We counted 2 cars that passed us 3 times on this one leg. Lots of big trucks/trailers going to the Daytona car show. Arriving in Port Orange on Thanksgiving Day and NOTHING was opened except a gas station, our Thanksgiving dinner was sandwiches from a BP gas station. Over the years my daughters journals have been filled with Griswold-isms like this.
Port Orange - Palm Harbor ~165 miles... I can finally run with the big dogs with this much energy in reserve, like a huge sigh of relief I don't have to be cautious with my energy burn.
As many have documented, EV travel is extremely doable with proper planning and execution. We arrive home with ~1800 miles on the car and only paid $10 in 'energy fees'. Well over 2000 now and loving every one of them more than the last.
Having over 2000 miles of dirt/gook/nastiness, I took her to a local car wash yesterday, and was treated like royalty. They wouldn't even drive it, they asked me to stay close and move it from the vacuum stalls to the hand wash area (no running it thru the auto-wash) they cleaned the bucket, fresh washing mits and hand washed it. Then to a remote drying area normally used for car detailing. I certainly don't expect any special treatment for driving this car, but it sure seems to be happening.