Recreating the NY Times Road Trip - Feb 15-17, 2013

[aaron.s]

If 6 Teslas arrive at a supercharger at the same time... won't some of you have to wait... a looong time?
How many charging ports are at the stations?
Just asking ....

Alpha -

3 will be starting from the DE Supercharger and will charge their cars before the other 3 of us get there from Rockville, MD.

When we all get up to the Milford, CT Supercharger - the first 4 will "top off" and then the others remaining afterwards...

Aaron

 

[carrerascott]

My wife and son are in NYC this weekend... If you tell me when you'll be going through times square I can probably get her to go there and snap a bunch of pics.

 

[lolachampcar]

Citizen-T
Absolutely.... I was just happy to see CNN step in with an independant validation of MS' performance.

Us MS owners can be called a lot of things but I, for one, am BIASED. I love this thing!

 

[aaron.s]

All -

I just sent "tips" into Autobloggreen, Engadget, The Verge & Green Car Reports - telling them of our endeavor! I hope some or all decide to carry the story!!!

Aaron

 

[Beckler]

This will be very interesting. CNN article is ok, but doesn't mention outside temperature. I wonder how you'll design this experiment. Perhaps something like two drivers drive the baseline conditions, and the other 4 vary conditions like speed and interior temp?

 

[efusco]

I think you should send a "tip" to the New York Times (with a cc to Broder) too...curious to see if/how they respond.

 

[Jack]

I'm working on getting CNN coverage - they're interested - i have an email into the article author and CNN Futures - hopefully, we'll get responses shortly

 

[aaron.s]

Beckler

Will will plan out the particulars when we're all together at the DE Supercharger... To be honest though, I think we should all drive the same speed, with comfortable cabin settings and not vary things to any great extent. One thing is for sure - we will do Range Charges at the Superchargers and at least one of us will *not* plug in to 110v overnight in Groton, CT to prove that with a full Range Charge, you can go from Milford -> Groton -> Milford with overnight temps below freezing...

Aaron

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I'm working on getting CNN coverage - they're interested - i have an email into the article author and CNN Futures - hopefully, we'll get responses shortly

Go Jack!!!!

John - Any new info on the Philly TV Station meeting us around 2pm at the DE Supercharger?

Aaron

 

[atlg8or]

Just tweeted to CNN:
James Gadsby ‏@atlg8r @PeterDrives - nice job retracing @TeslaMotors route w/ miles to spare... NE Model S owners doing same @TeslaRoadTrip http://tinyurl.com/b9fwqak

Good luck team!

 

[Raffy.Roma]

I've set up a Twitter page for all of you to follow us on. We'll be posting pictures and @PureAmps is setting up some of our cars to tweet along the trip!

http://twitter.com/TeslaRoadTrip

Join the trip with us!

Aaron

Thank you Aaron for giving me the chance to follow you from Italy. I''ll follow you on Twitter.

GO TESLA!!

 

[Todd Burch]

Great job all, looking forward to this.

Make sure you take plenty of pictures, video if necessary. Take very good notes, including indicated ranges, distances traveled, cabin temp, outside temp, etc. Maybe take pictures as evidence when possible.

Try driving around for 0.6 miles at the Supercharger in Milford...see what that's like. Better yet, time it to do it at night and see how "hard" it is to find.

Can't wait to see the account of the trip, and I hope lots of media outlets pick it up!

 

[dpeilow]

A few things:-

- Can someone make a NEMA 5-20 adapter out of some bits from a hardware store?

- If 4 of you are charging on the supercharger, the charge rate will be less (60kW to start, not 90kW) as the power is split across two heads.

- Good luck getting the media on board. As someone else said, at times like this they tend to circle the wagons.

 

[Borgie]

Alpha -

3 will be starting from the DE Supercharger and will charge their cars before the other 3 of us get there from Rockville, MD.

When we all get up to the Milford, CT Supercharger - the first 4 will "top off" and then the others remaining afterwards...

Aaron

aaron.s: When you get to the Milford Supercharger, realize that there are two charging stations on the Northbound side of I95 and two charging stations on the Southbound side. So....if you want to charge 4 cars simultaneously, 2 of you will have to go up to the next exit (very close) and loop back to the Southbound service area.

Good luck. I may meet you in Milford to cheer you on. Unfortunately not in my Model S. It's a few weeks away.

 

[aaron.s]

aaron.s: When you get to the Milford Supercharger, realize that there are two charging stations on the Northbound side of I95 and two charging stations on the Southbound side. So....if you want to charge 4 cars simultaneously, 2 of you will have to go up to the next exit (very close) and loop back to the Southbound service area.

Good luck. I may meet you in Milford to cheer you on. Unfortunately not in my Model S. It's a few weeks away.

Borgie

Thanks for the info... Aware of the 2 stations on each side of the road... Have charged at both several times

Follow our twitter feed and we'll post an ETA for Milford as we approach!

Aaron

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All -

A person from Green Car Reports is in contact with me and is interested in our trip... Suggests we do a write-up afterwards for them to post on their site!

Aaron

 

[NigelM]

Mod Note: Threads merged. I made you a "Sticky" for the weekend to make it easy to find and for you to post updates here.

Great initiative, have fun!

 

[aaron.s]

Mod Note: Threads merged. I made you a "Sticky" for the weekend to make it easy to find and for you to post updates here.

Great initiative, have fun!

Thanks SO MUCH Nigel!!!!

Aaron

 

[Bardlebee]

I just linked this thread on Tesla's facebook page if they weren't already aware of what you guys were up to. Hopefully someone at least thanks you guys from Tesla or something. It would be nice for them to post your venture themselves too.

 

[aaron.s]

All -

Instagram account now set up!

teslaroadtrip

You can follow us there too!

Aaron

 

[bluetinc]

Dpeilow,

A NEMA 5-20 is just a standard lamp socket (NEMA 5-15) that can supply 20 amps. It looks just like a standard socket but with an extra cut in one of the slots. The standard 120V adapter you have will work just fine, but only allow you to charge at 12A.



Peter

 

[richkae]

While on the roadtrip you can play my new wordsmithing game: To Broder or not to Broder, that is the question