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You might be surprised. Charging is pretty fast if you run down the battery to say 10 - 20% and then charge only what you need at each supercharger along the w
by natch 8y ago
You might be surprised.
Charging is pretty fast if you run down the battery to say 10 - 20% and then charge only what you need at each supercharger along the way.
Overall it is a bit slower than an ICE car if the ICE car is not taking any breaks, but the other aspects of the car make this a very small price to pay.
Over time as the supercharger network gets faster and with free software updates the gap will narrow as well.
- dondawest 8y agoIt is dramatically slower than ICE cars dude. Over time ... it will still be dramatically slower. Teslas are an expensive fragile toy for rich people that can afford to stop for an hour every few hundred miles. But literally who wants to do that ?!?!? Not me
- steelframe 8y ago> Over time ... with free software updates the gap will narrow as well. Yeah, this guy's drinking the Koolaid. I've tried a road trip in a Tesla exactly once. I drive gas on road trips now.
- natch 8y agoThere are right and wrong ways to do charging on a road trip. If you’re such a noob that you’ve only done it once, you very likely may have been doing it wrong. So I wouldn’t give your anecdata much weight.
- dondawest 8y agoI would give your anecdata precisely zero weight because it directly contradicts with the hundreds and hundreds of Tesla owners I’ve met and chatted with. Musk is a false prophet dude, leave his religion, your faith in him will not benefit you but it MIGHT make you die in a car crash.
- natch 8y agoSlower refueling on road trips only, not when near home. The best part is when not on road trips, just charge at home and never visit a gas station. And no alternators, starter motors, fuel pumps, carburetors, oil, etc., etc, etc. Expensive? Not so much when you consider all the extra constant maintenance costs of an ICE car.