Through the bowels of hell, Atles delivers.

[Kleenerth3]

Yesterday I took Atles for a trip from Vista, CA to Tempe, AZ and back. We planned to pick up our niece from U. of Advancing Tech months ago and along comes the heat warning. Have to go. Left at 5am and Atles tells me keep it under 70 to reach destination. Huh? A few miles later, keep it under 65. Damn! It was already getting warm. Made it Ok to Quartzite.
I charged here both ways. Carl's Jr is a welcome stop.
On the way to UAT, I realized that I would be down to around 20% and there was no SC stations showing for quite some time. I asked for the next, nearest SC station and got a mall in Scottsdale. I should have planned my destination for the nearest SC station on the way, then UAT.
There is a huge lack of SC stations in spots of AZ and it taught me a lesson. Final destinations aren't always good charging places and I almost got caught in "No charge zone". Had I went first to Destination, I'd likely been at or near 0% trying to get to the next SC station.
Not good!
Other than that... 122°!!!
In Traffic!!! Atles handle it like a champ. It had me worried for a while.
Check out the following pics.

Quartzite

Scottsdale

UAT Campus

Traffic temps

122° WOW

Indio, CA and 116°

 

[Kleenerth3]

BTW- Just finished charging to 60% and got 192 miles. I was worried about battery degradation in the heat...
Not too bad

 

[Joshan]

that pic of you in the parking lot parked on the white line has me itchy. The only time I let my wife get away with that we got a NASTY door ding.

 

[voip-ninja]

WTF is an 'Atles'? Pet name for your car? It's a car not a dog.

 

[Kleenerth3]

LOL! That lot was full and tight...
I never left the 3, ha I could only stand outside for a few seconds or melt into the pavement.

 

[Kleenerth3]

WTF is an 'Atles'? Pet name for your car? It's a car not a dog.

It's a Tesla, not just a "car".

 

[voip-ninja]

It's a Tesla, not just a "car".

Well maybe you could put it in your signature line that you gave your car a weird name so the rest of us know what the hell you're talking about. I thought you were beta testing a new version of autopilot that had a weird name.

 

[Joshan]

Well maybe you could put it in your signature line that you gave your car a weird name so the rest of us know what the hell you're talking about. I thought you were beta testing a new version of autopilot that had a weird name.

I will admit, it was not obvious to me at first either what you meant.

 

[alexdav]

Just a heads up, but in your pic of Quartzite, you're charging off the urban / temporary supercharger. You'll get a limited charge rate off those (I believe 72 kw, unless something has changed) and it looks like the others were open.

Made that trek many times since my parents live in AZ

 

[Kleenerth3]

Just a heads up, but in your pic of Quartzite, you're charging off the urban / temporary supercharger. You'll get a limited charge rate off those (I believe 72 kw, unless something has changed) and it looks like the others were open.

Made that trek many times since my parents live in AZ

I did learn a lot from the drive...
That was one, LoL.

 

[Joshan]

I learned a ton on my first road trip also... It was from Chicago to Minneapolis in February through a near blizzard and a DO NO TRAVEL advisory. I saw no less than 200 cars in the ditch and for about 20 miles they completely closed the highway and forced me onto unplowed local roads.

My AWD LR handled it better than any other car I ever owned...

 

[jebinc]

Yesterday I took Atles for a trip from Vista, CA to Tempe, AZ and back. We planned to pick up our niece from U. of Advancing Tech months ago and along comes the heat warning. Have to go. Left at 5am and Atles tells me keep it under 70 to reach destination. Huh? A few miles later, keep it under 65. Damn! It was already getting warm. Made it Ok to Quartzite.
I charged here both ways. Carl's Jr is a welcome stop.
On the way to UAT, I realized that I would be down to around 20% and there was no SC stations showing for quite some time. I asked for the next, nearest SC station and got a mall in Scottsdale. I should have planned my destination for the nearest SC station on the way, then UAT.
There is a huge lack of SC stations in spots of AZ and it taught me a lesson. Final destinations aren't always good charging places and I almost got caught in "No charge zone". Had I went first to Destination, I'd likely been at or near 0% trying to get to the next SC station.
Not good!
Other than that... 122°!!!
In Traffic!!! Atles handle it like a champ. It had me worried for a while.
Check out the following pics.View attachment 442089 View attachment 442090 View attachment 442091QuartziteView attachment 442092 ScottsdaleView attachment 442093 View attachment 442094 UAT CampusView attachment 442096 Traffic tempsView attachment 442097 122° WOWView attachment 442098 Indio, CA and 116°

Nice, thanks for sharing! Glad to see you enjoying some "Zep" whilst on the road!

Edit: How did your paint hold up? Did your flaps do their job as those long hot highway speeds?

 

[Kleenerth3]

Nice, thanks for sharing! Glad to see you enjoying some "Zep" whilst on the road!

Edit: How did your paint hold up? Did your flaps do their job as those long hot highway speeds?

I'm so glad I have the Xpel clear bra. It got plastered with bugs and the hood stayed pretty clean. Just a few streaks. The glass sealant made glass wipes easy to use in really hot temps.
No damage behind the mud flaps and the freeway was kinda chunky. Totally did their job! Already they paid for their cost, IMHO. Actually stayed fairly comfortable but window tint has become suddenly very important.