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>There's a range calculator on the Model S webpage. If you drop the temperature and turn on the heater, even the 90 kWh battery doesn't have 240 miles range. Y

>There's a range calculator on the Model S webpage. If you drop the temperature and turn on the heater, even the 90 kWh battery doesn't have 240 miles range. Yeah, it seemed at least three years ago driving from DC to Boston in the winter was pretty much impossible... and that's one of the most traveled routes in the country. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the... There's a lot of people I talk to who the only driving they do is from home to work to the grocery store. These are the ones insisting very loudly that range isn't an issue with EVs and there's no convincing them otherwise, its only a theoretical problem for them.

mikeash 11y ago
If you drive like an idiot, fail to think for yourself, and perhaps deliberately try to run down the battery, then it was pretty much impossible. And three years is a long time. Here's what the Supercharger situation looked like then: http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_AFED015E-139C-420B-A040-FE99CDC67DAC.png http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_AFED015E-139C-420B-A040-FE... Here's what it looks like today: http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_A922B393-0F4B-4E07-9CEA-507D93F7A874.png http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_A922B393-0F4B-4E07-9CEA-50... You'll notice a slight increase in the availability of chargers along that corridor. In my experience, the people insisting very loudly than range isn't an issue with EVs are all Tesla owners who have taken their cars on 1,000 mile road trips, while the people who insist that Superchargers are worthless and long trips in EVs are terrible are all working from partial information, speculation, and imagination.