No bother at all! I left from Shawnee at 100%. It was a 208 mile trip. It got pretty windy on me past Emporia (I think that was my undoing), but I had been driving the speed limit the entire way since it was my first time making this trip in the 3. Started slowing down to 55-60 about 15 miles from El Dorado and babied it pretty good the rest of the way south on the two lane roads (45-55 mph). Nav said I'd arrive with 12% when I left.
The trip back though was fantastic. I charged to 100% before I left and arrived with 24% remaining, driving exactly the same route but this time with a tailwind (and not exactly babying the speed either). Nav once again said I would arrive with 12% remaining but was clearly tracking the other direction.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, it was exceptionally windy, and you can just slow down a bit and make it. Once Emporia is built, it's a non issue if you're even a little bit concerned when you go by it. I used to make this trip in an S90D driving the speed limit, and the 3 has longer legs than that. This was just an exceptional circumstance that's about to be avoidable.
Got it, so round trip sounds like you were getting a solid 250 miles for the charge (if you had depleted it entirely). That seems about right for the rating.
Yeah, I feel you. TBH, I'm one of those people who love to wake up early on road trips (I drive close to 25K miles a year) and only stop every 4 hours or so. In my old gas car, though, it only got ~25mpg going 75-80mph and I would have to stop every ~3-3.5 hours anyway.
With the Tesla, seems as though stopping possibly have 90 - 120 minutes here or there might make sense, what keeps my head high though, is I'm hoping autopilot can do 95%+ of the drive and I can (mostly) relax for the ride. To me, that's worth the trade-off of stopping more frequently.
Do you use autopilot during these trips?