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TonyWilliams
Active Member
There will be Tesla cars at this west coast (the WHOLE west coast) this summer. You're invited.
All EV Rally, BC 2 BC (Canada 2 Mexico) June 2013
Yep, that's me. We should get the cars together sometime for a great couple of pictures!
Peter
I'm still waiting on my MS. Hopefully it gets here in March. Where in MD are you? I'm near Tyson's Corner and I'm in MD all the time.
GasDoc
Member
Congratulations on your success!
So, in a nutshell, what did the Tesla road trip guys do differently than Broder?
So, in a nutshell, what did the Tesla road trip guys do differently than Broder?
Bearman
My home is 55 miles from the supercharger in Westchester, NY. I drove down I95 with the others then veered off to my home and they continued down I95 to the George Washington Bridge and south to MD.
Have to save those range charges for when I really need them!
Aaron
EVNow
Well-Known Member
Fedderman
Original: 2012 Model S (85); Current: 2024 Model S
+1
Kudos to the participants for their personal sacrifices and excellent planning/execution on the drive this weekend. The performance and range capabilities of this amazing car are very well documented and indisputable. Let us focus our energies on promoting an ever-improving charging infrastructure: ubiquity of high speed charging stations.
Norbert
TSLA will win
I expect they will write report(s) about all that.
Until then, the short story: They did 100% charges at the Superchargers. That simple.
(Temperatures where not quite as cold. I think 5F or a bit more higher on on the stretch from Delaware to Milford, and 10F higher overnight. However on the roundtrip Milford->Groton->Stonington->Milton, they had snow and (head-)winds which had a small but noticeable effect on efficiency.)
Specifically on the leg of the trip on which Broder failed, the Model S which didn't use hotel overnight charging either, had a remaining charge of 72 miles, having returned to Milford. This car used Superchargers only.
(However, overnight charging was available in Groton, and is better to do than not. But as one can see, it worked even without, and plenty range left.)
they did the trip and no one failed from what I can tell. oh, they did have cozy warm interiors
:smile:
sp4rk
Banned
Have to agree with you 100%.
I am so proud to be part of this community (stealing Bonnie's words, but mine too) but there's also a line to be drawn between great humour and ... the urinal shot, IMO, is in poor taste.
In my case, a couple of things:
- Milford to Wilmington without a range charge driving mostly at 75+ (if you accept a net neutral recovery of overnight depletion at chargepoint as making it)
- NYC to Metrowest MA in difficult condtions without a range charge (although need 25 top off at a chargepoint), driving on the Hutch instead of past Milford
- Relying on highly accurate predictive data to make informed decisions about how much risk to take with range
- Driving an S as a high performance car as i would do any other high performance vehicle and coming to the conclusion that all we're missing is some infrastructure
- Thinking about my S in a new way - with a much broader range of use cases
Other team members showed what we already knew - that the broder report was without doubt wrong.
sp4rk
Banned
Is it just me or did Lauren Goode's article not exactly praise their efforts. I got the distinct impression there was a negative tone to it?
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