Hi Olle,
When were those articles written? :wink:
I see that you got your Model S just after the Signatures closed out in North America. At that time, at the beginning of 2013, if you had done a survey you might have received a different answer since the Supercharger Network had not yet been started. At the time many of the early adopters, including myself, felt that an ICE backup vehicle would be required for those out of town trips beyond the Model S's range. With the state of the electric infrastructure at the time it certainly would have been prudent to worry where we were going to get a charge past 200 miles.
However, as was previously alluded to, based on national averages most one-way daily trips (about 95%) are less than 35 miles and trips over 90 miles are a fraction of a percentage. So even back in 2013 a Model S with a range of about 265 miles per charge was going to be able to accommodate the vast majority of trips without the need to charge at the destination and still could have been considered the primary vehicle even if a ICE was required for long distance trips.
Today Florida has the second most numbers of Superchargers behind California,... (way behind) :biggrin:. Anyway, traveling long distances across the state in a Model S with an 85 kWh battery, or even to other states, no longer presents the challenge it did when you and I first got our cars and a backup ICE may no longer be required. The only exception is for people whose temperment is such that they can't stand to wait at Supercharging Stations or invest the extra time to plan out a long route. I think if we are honest, we will have to admit that even with the vast improvement in the number of Supercharger Stations, that a Model S owner still needs to spend a little more time preplanning a long trip than an ICE driver.
Larry