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I did a 4-day 16 hour round trip drive just this past weekend through the Midwest into the South. Can't imagine having to stop any more often than I already di

by elhudy 8y ago

I did a 4-day 16 hour round trip drive just this past weekend through the Midwest into the South. Can't imagine having to stop any more often than I already did; in fact at the pace Teslas charge, I'm not sure the trip would have even been possible.

rconti 8y ago
16 hours.. total? or 112 hours total? The former sounds amazingly brief, the latter, rather long.
- beatgammit 8y ago
  Yeah, I just drove 14 hours or so one way to visit family and did it in one day. I can see 16 hours one way being correct for "Midwest to South" (both large regions) and can't really see 64 or 112 making sense. LA to NYC is 42 hours or so and Detroit to New Orleans is 16 hours or so, so 64 or 112 hours for a round trip between those regions would have to be quite circuitous. So yeah, I'm a little confused at OP's math. I'm guessing there were a lot of stops involved in a very nonlinear trip.
- elhudy 8y ago
  16 hours round trip = 8 hours each way. In four days.
- elhudy 8y ago
  Just curious, what is amazingly brief about driving two 8 hour (~500 mile) segments in four days? Even if I had the largest Tesla Battery, I would still have had to stop and do a full charge during each segment twice.
  - rconti 8y ago
    Sorry, now that you describe it, I realize the emphasis on the "round trip" part. Yes, doing a 4 day roundtrip with that many miles (and only 2 'travel' days) means a lot of driving for a brief stay. I was thinking more in terms of a relatively continuous trip where 4 hours a day for 4 days is not very much (for example). My parents' house is about 500mi away from where I live, and I generally don't drive unless I'm staying for a week rather than just a few days, so this is a good point-- for a trip to visit someone, and return, a good % of your time is spent driving. As a typical "see the sights" type roadtrip, you might be doing 8 hours a day every day for an extended time, which is more what I was thinking. (FWIW our 3 can easily get its rated 310 mi range so really you'd only need to stop once, assuming you can charge at your destination, but of course that assumes there's a supercharger relatively close to the 'middle' of your segment.. OTOH if you did stop twice they'd be quite brief stops, probably like 20 minutes).

by elhudy 8y ago

rconti 8y ago

16 hours.. total? or 112 hours total? The former sounds amazingly brief, the latter, rather long.

beatgammit 8y ago
Yeah, I just drove 14 hours or so one way to visit family and did it in one day. I can see 16 hours one way being correct for "Midwest to South" (both large regions) and can't really see 64 or 112 making sense. LA to NYC is 42 hours or so and Detroit to New Orleans is 16 hours or so, so 64 or 112 hours for a round trip between those regions would have to be quite circuitous. So yeah, I'm a little confused at OP's math. I'm guessing there were a lot of stops involved in a very nonlinear trip.
elhudy 8y ago
16 hours round trip = 8 hours each way. In four days.
elhudy 8y ago
Just curious, what is amazingly brief about driving two 8 hour (~500 mile) segments in four days? Even if I had the largest Tesla Battery, I would still have had to stop and do a full charge during each segment twice.
- rconti 8y ago
  Sorry, now that you describe it, I realize the emphasis on the "round trip" part. Yes, doing a 4 day roundtrip with that many miles (and only 2 'travel' days) means a lot of driving for a brief stay. I was thinking more in terms of a relatively continuous trip where 4 hours a day for 4 days is not very much (for example). My parents' house is about 500mi away from where I live, and I generally don't drive unless I'm staying for a week rather than just a few days, so this is a good point-- for a trip to visit someone, and return, a good % of your time is spent driving. As a typical "see the sights" type roadtrip, you might be doing 8 hours a day every day for an extended time, which is more what I was thinking. (FWIW our 3 can easily get its rated 310 mi range so really you'd only need to stop once, assuming you can charge at your destination, but of course that assumes there's a supercharger relatively close to the 'middle' of your segment.. OTOH if you did stop twice they'd be quite brief stops, probably like 20 minutes).