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Report from a local Tesla owner on a recent road trip and charging…
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This guy is in northwest Arkansas, he was traveling to Panama City Beach in Florida:

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Left home with 100%

Ozark, 15ish minutes

Brinkley, 5-10 minutes

SouthHaven, 15ish minutes

Guin AL, 5-10 minutes

Mount Brooke AL, 5-10 minutes

Montgomery AL, 25ish minutes

Panama City Beach!

All 250kw chargers made the difference, projected trip time in a gas car with no stops was 13 hours, we made the trip in almost exactly 14 hours. The gap in time/convenience vs ICE is closing rapidly.
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#2
I'm sitting here trying to wrap my mind around the concept of there being a Tesla charging station in, of all places, Guin, Alabama. Maybe a little further down the road in the comparatively bustling metropolis that is Winfield, but Guin?

Far out, man.
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#3
Yeah, it’s in the Holiday Inn in Guin. Who knew Guin had a Holiday Inn?
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#4
The only area we found fewer than ideal chargers was INSIDE Yellowstone…
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#5
This is an example of what separates Tesla’s network from the others. If you were using any other network, you wouldn’t be able to do this trip in a reasonable amount of time or with any reliability (due to the fewer chargers and lack of real-time data on their status, not to mention manually having to plan each segment of the trip).
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#6
Yup, I’m trying to time my Lyriq purchase to coincide with GM’s access to the Tesla network. When I placed my order I told the salesman I was buying now because of the Tesla-GM deal. If the timing doesn’t work out we’ll take our Volt on our trips until Supercharger access becomes available.
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#7
Tesla Road Trips

https://youtu.be/Qp_WNNSnSpI

A slightly grumpier view
https://youtu.be/t0ThYkpskw4
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Carnos Jax wrote:
This guy is in northwest Arkansas, he was traveling to Panama City Beach in Florida
All 250kw chargers made the difference, projected trip time in a gas car with no stops was 13 hours, we made the trip in almost exactly 14 hours. The gap in time/convenience vs ICE is closing rapidly.

what guy?

I mean I guess these tests are "cool" and all, and maybe Im off base a bit, but who drives like this on the regular? My guess? 1% of peeps. Or cross country? .01%

And why not use an S vs any other tesla? 405 miles vs 320ish for everything else.

Whats the point? tesla was never billed as an interstate traveling machine...
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#9
High speed charging is the real deal. Road trip with my sons Bolt was annoying… 1 hour charge stops every 4 hours…
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jdc wrote:
[quote=Carnos Jax]
This guy is in northwest Arkansas, he was traveling to Panama City Beach in Florida
All 250kw chargers made the difference, projected trip time in a gas car with no stops was 13 hours, we made the trip in almost exactly 14 hours. The gap in time/convenience vs ICE is closing rapidly.

what guy?

I mean I guess these tests are "cool" and all, and maybe Im off base a bit, but who drives like this on the regular? My guess? 1% of peeps. Or cross country? .01%

And why not use an S vs any other tesla? 405 miles vs 320ish for everything else.

Whats the point? tesla was never billed as an interstate traveling machine...
LOL, you need to become a little less myopic…..this is just some dude who owns a Tesla, that went on a vacation. A lot of Arkansans (like many southerners) vacation along the gulf coast. There’s a reason it’s called the redneck riviera.
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