This is OP. Just finished a longer trip with one stop for few hours (120 miles from 76% to 11%) AC on always. during the 2-3 hr stop, we used sentry mode but the percentage did not dip much at all. The trip meter shows 233Wh/mi.
So, real miles translates to about 186miles for 100% charge. Wh/mi Translates to 233miles.
Not happy with how the real miles are much lower than what wh/mi implies (which begs the usefulness of the energy graph and trip meter). And the significant other half is praising simplicity of ICE cars’ range and lower fill-up frequency and says we should cancel our MY order now and have at least one ICE car in our household.
Remind your "significant other half" that, unless you road trip every day, your tesla will start each day with a "full tank" and there will be no "trips to the gas station" every 3-4-5 days depending on how you drive.
"The simplicity of ICE range" is basically a couched way to say "range anxiety" for longer trips.... I get it, but people usually get over that, and they also dont take 200 mile trips every day. "lower fill up frequency" goes to an EV with home charging (hopefully you have that, if you dont, you are losing one of the biggest benefits of owning this car imo).
The statement I normally make when people start talking about "fill up frequency" is: " for regular commute usage, picture having a gas pump in your garage that pumped gas into your car while you slept... so you always leave the house with however much gas you wanted to, without having to make any additional trips to go get it."
A road trip is different and requires a bit more planning, that is true. Depending on where you are, its a non issue though, and your location says "bay area" so there is no shortage of superchargers for anywhere here up and down california.
I get the range anxiety, like I said. My wife still has an ICE vehicel (its leased). Not sure what I will do when her X3 comes off lease. We have put around 4500 miles on her X3, leased in January of 2019. Conversely, my Model 3p, purchased about 3 weeks before we leased her X3 in December of 2018, has almost 23k miles on it. She doesnt have a job outside the house, so the original plan was for me to split driving between the two cars, keeping the mileage even on both of them.
After purchasing my model 3 however, I only drive her car very rarely... and never to work which is an 80 mile round trip. I like mine too much, and hers is a fully loaded X3 M40 (so no slouch of a car). It has all the driver assistance stuff (all optional) that BMW sells, and the tesla versions are much better to me... although I enjoy driving my car so much I dont normally use the FSD stuff I paid for.