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I know that's what many on this forum will say I am doing. But I have now had my car (SR+) for 3 months. I love it, but I am not enjoying it, because I just worry constantly about the fact that my range is so low. There is no other way to assess it. It's low.
Let me explain.
As you can see from the attached pictures of a typical drive. (I started at 80%, which is were I normally charge it) I used 19% of my energy to go 34.4 miles. That's nearly 1/5 of my power to go roughly 1/8 of the car's rated range.
19% of 240 should have been 45.6. Now I understand that the rated range is a fantasy number. But I don't think it is supposed to be that much of a fantasy number. As you can see, I kept it above the energy graph. I am careful. I don't hot rod. I don't even run the air very high at all. This is conservative driving.
That 34.4 miles comes to about 14% of the 240 what the EPA and Tesla rated for my car. (Again, I get it---that's the rated EPA range---but also the range that Tesla boasts my car gets). But instead of using that 14% of the energy, I used 19%.
I have 19" wheels. That's supposed to be a 5% mileage hit. So that accounts for 1.7 miles on that 34.4 mile trip.
With these numbers---the car would go about 170 miles. That isn't 240.
Let me explain.
As you can see from the attached pictures of a typical drive. (I started at 80%, which is were I normally charge it) I used 19% of my energy to go 34.4 miles. That's nearly 1/5 of my power to go roughly 1/8 of the car's rated range.
19% of 240 should have been 45.6. Now I understand that the rated range is a fantasy number. But I don't think it is supposed to be that much of a fantasy number. As you can see, I kept it above the energy graph. I am careful. I don't hot rod. I don't even run the air very high at all. This is conservative driving.
That 34.4 miles comes to about 14% of the 240 what the EPA and Tesla rated for my car. (Again, I get it---that's the rated EPA range---but also the range that Tesla boasts my car gets). But instead of using that 14% of the energy, I used 19%.
I have 19" wheels. That's supposed to be a 5% mileage hit. So that accounts for 1.7 miles on that 34.4 mile trip.
With these numbers---the car would go about 170 miles. That isn't 240.