The first Christmas was of course when my MS was delivered. Two weeks ago we drove down to Ft Myers to test the new super charge. I have never been at one before and I can only say "wow", it was like second Christmas ! At first I was not expecting to see any Tesla there as the charger was just opened and we have far less MS'es in Florida. But to my surprise, two cars where charging. We started from Tampa with a standard charge and Vampire loss with 230 miles and arrived at the charger with 44 miles left driving constant 80 mph. We used 346 watts per mile. As great as this was for us, it is bad news for the 60 KW cars. There is not enough capacity to drive to the SC at 80 mph, even not with range charge IF you have headwind !
Arriving there I plugged the cable in and chatted with the Tesla owners on our side. As we where hungry we did not talk to long and before heading to Carrabbas I took a quick look at my range and could not believe it, 100 miles ! I just gained 55 miles with a small talk ! The moment we got our check I was at 265 miles max range. I charged to max range as we planned to drive a little around to Ft Myers beach. What a WISE decision ! To my surprise on our way back at that same 80 mph the car now showed 400 Wh/mile ! So it's all about the wind ! Makes sense, if the wind is 5 mph on the driving direction you have a 10 mph difference in speed between those two legs. Again, with 60 KW battery AND wind, one has to reduce speed significantly. We arrived back on our starting point with 23 miles left and 372 Wh/mile average energy use.
I am not sure what you guys think, but after using a super charger I am even more convinced that Tesla's future looks bright ! It really only needs a few superchargers at strategic locations and there is no range anxiety at all. But also from my experience, until there are more SC's, people who do frequent trips >100 mile should not buy the S60.
(sorry for the duplicated and big picture, if I hit edit they do not appear !)
Arriving there I plugged the cable in and chatted with the Tesla owners on our side. As we where hungry we did not talk to long and before heading to Carrabbas I took a quick look at my range and could not believe it, 100 miles ! I just gained 55 miles with a small talk ! The moment we got our check I was at 265 miles max range. I charged to max range as we planned to drive a little around to Ft Myers beach. What a WISE decision ! To my surprise on our way back at that same 80 mph the car now showed 400 Wh/mile ! So it's all about the wind ! Makes sense, if the wind is 5 mph on the driving direction you have a 10 mph difference in speed between those two legs. Again, with 60 KW battery AND wind, one has to reduce speed significantly. We arrived back on our starting point with 23 miles left and 372 Wh/mile average energy use.
I am not sure what you guys think, but after using a super charger I am even more convinced that Tesla's future looks bright ! It really only needs a few superchargers at strategic locations and there is no range anxiety at all. But also from my experience, until there are more SC's, people who do frequent trips >100 mile should not buy the S60.
(sorry for the duplicated and big picture, if I hit edit they do not appear !)
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