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There's one more factor: driving speed. To get more energy efficiency on long trips, it often makes sense to drive the model s around 50-55mph rather than 65+.
by abalone 13y ago
There's one more factor: driving speed. To get more energy efficiency on long trips, it often makes sense to drive the model s around 50-55mph rather than 65+. So if you average 10mph slower over 2800 miles, that's an additional 8 hours of driving time on top of the charging time.
See comments here for a recent cross-country trip. Where the driver notes his average speed it's around 50-55mph. http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/heading-cross-country http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/heading-cross-countr...
(Also of note: planning around cold weather seems to be a significant consideration.)
- latj 13y agoThere's one more factor: Dont I have to do a mandatory roundtrip so that I can return the individual batteries to Tesla? Thats the way their battery swap program works at the moment.
- boucher 13y agoThe battery swap is not the 30 minute charge time, it's an actual charge of your own battery (the swap is a lot faster than 30 minutes). I don't think battery swap is currently available at these charge locations?
- secabeen 13y agoCorrect. There are no battery swap stations in service anywhere at the present time.
- ceph_ 13y agoThe article isn't about their battery swap program. Its about their fast charge network.
- latj 13y agoOops, I totally missed that part. It sounds more realistic now.
- ajcarpy2005 13y agoSpeculative: if Elon Musk's hyperloop vision happens, batteries could be loaded into pods and shipped most of their journey that way.
- Retric 13y agoI don't think that's accurate when your using supercharging stations. Electricity costs far less than gas so if your adding more time than you save by refueling less it's basically pointless unless your could get to a much further charging station. However, there way to far apart for that to be practical so your stopping in the same locations if your doing 55 or 75.