Thousand mile days are pretty sick in a Tesla. Averaging 900 miles/day for over a week is even sicker. I take it you were just napping at the superchargers? I can't even imagine how tired you were.
Thanks and it's always nice to hear from the top dogs on the list.
I always wanted to hit the 1,000 EV-miles-in-a-day mark and barely hit that on a previous road trip from Seattle to the East coast last year so this time I made sure to reach that a few times. I was surprised with the long mileage days that they were NOT across the 80-mph wide open spaces of SD, WY, MT, TX, UT, etc. AND were visiting 10-15 superchargers. I'm now wondering what is easily possible when you don't need to stop at every single supercharger along a 1,000-mile route. I guess it is just 1 step below a Cannonball style drive.
As it turns out, Alex Roy and Daniel Zorrilla recently set the EV Cannonball record in a Tesla Model 3 of 2,860 miles in ~50.25 hrs and I see that I did ~2,300 miles in 48 hrs but wasn't even trying for any type of record. They also had 2 drivers. I doubt they took the time to check into each location on PlugShare. lol
The first 1,000+ mile day was actually on Day #1 when I hit an amazing 1,145 miles in 23.5 hrs through WV, VA, and NC all in the same timezone (easier to tell the miles-per-day) so I had a great start to the trip. I was
not expecting to hit more than 900 miles in the zig-zag and mountains and a few big towns so I couldn't wait to hit the wide open spaces out West on this trip.
A week later it was 1,075 miles between Three Rivers, TX and Willcox, AZ and I gained a timezone but the Teslafi time stamps, for me, all get listed in Eastern time which saves me the headache of trying to remember what timezone pesky Arizona was on at the time.
Then the 2 main days returning were a good bit of fun. 1,230 miles in 17.5 hrs so just over 70 mph avg speed and 5.25 hrs of charging time that day or 22.75 hrs of driving + charging. That was followed by 1,170 miles but I arrived at 1:30 am so I'd subtract ~90 miles from that but it still makes it 1,080 miles in 15.75 hrs of driving so 68.5 mph avg speed and 6.75 hrs of charging or 22.5 hrs driving + charging.
You can see that some of the days were the low 700-mile days and others were 950- and 1,100-mile days. I took advantage of napping at a charger a few times and I can tell which ones when the charging stop was 2-4 hrs. Since I had plenty of wiggle room on the schedule, there was no need to drive beyond the point of being unsafe and too tired as I'd stop at a Destination charger if I needed a stop between superchargers. One or two nights of solid sleep made it possible to drive quite far the next day then a night or two to get caught up on rest and another long day on the road.
I got to visit Sweet Union Brewing and Rock Store BBQ outside of Charlotte, Georgia Southern University outside Savannah (which was an unplanned Destination charger stop but the Information Desk at the Savannah Airport supercharger isn't open until 8 am to validate the ticket so I delayed by arrival at the Airport until ~7:30 am by getting a few hours nap while charging at GSU), and arrived at the charger down in the Florida Keys at 2 am and got a solid couple of hours of sleep and could see the Keys in the morning light and there is basically zero traffic heading North on the Keys at 7 am on a Monday so that was a bonus.
I enjoyed
most of the trip and kept thinking if I should have gone across southern TX on the way back instead of the way out but the locals down there reminded me that the week after I was there was going to be Spring Break and would be total mayhem down by South Padre Island so I was fortuitous to time my trip when I did.
Now I'm looking forward to the May trip out to Long Beach and what route I'll explore.
