This is also what im very curios about. When I put the trip into the nav it shows no stops, but I honestly I think like most don't even think about how to conserve the most energy and have the heat blasting, yoke heating and seats on max anytime i'm in the vehicle lol. Very curios to see how many real world EV miles it actually takes to get there over the 200mile trip. I'm looking more forward to road tripping the Tesla then actually going to boston lol
First off: I used to drive a Prius on this trip. A full gas tank on that car, winter or summer, would get one one way or the other without stopping for gas.
But the SO and I would stop anyway. From NJ, it’s 4, 4.5 hours without traffic jams. Meals. Bathroom breaks.
With the Teslas, if one wants to arrive with more than 5% charge, then stopping somewhere, once, to do a little SC-ing fixes that. And takes care of the other needs as well. In the winter, what with the reduced range, that’s enforced a bit, but only a bit.
As to “additional” mileage? C’mon, there’s tons of SCs on the potential routes, on and off the interstate rest stops themselves. It’s no worse and possible better than going for gas when driving an ICE.
And, from a larger perspective, this supulerfity of SCS over the landscape, at least in the Eastern half of the US where I’ve been driving over the past five years, is pretty much like that. Throw one’s destination into the NAV and up pops the SCs, if any, that one needs to stop at. If one wants to get fancy, one stares at the route on the map and says, “Y’know, given the time, it’d be better to stop for lunch/dinner/overnight
there rather than
here.” and adjust the route accordingly. There’s more than enough info on NAV (times, states of charge, etc.) to make intelligent decisions with a few seconds of thought and without a degree in rocket science.
As I said, not much difference than with doing it on an ICE car, and probably better. (A certain incident where was running on fumes on a ‘71 VW Bug in the middle of Wyoming comes to mind..)
In the end: put in your destination and let fly. If the SOC is too low for your liking at the destination, then take a coffee/potty break at some SC halfway there. The ten of fifteen minutes it’ll take will boost up your destination SOC and, well, you’re done. Easy peasy.