Report from a local Tesla owner on a recent road trip and charging…

[jdc]

what guy -- was there a link?

[vision63]

Speedy wrote:
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.

Just buy it. Those other chargers work. It's time for adventure!

[Carnos Jax]

jdc wrote:
what guy -- was there a link?

Why does it matter? I don’t want to out/dox someone.

[jdc]

Carnos Jax wrote:
[quote=jdc]
what guy -- was there a link?

Why does it matter? I don’t want to out/dox someone.
ahhh, I thought there was more details to the story, or some sort of a link to a story with more details.

[Carnos Jax]

No, this was strictly a field report.

[ztirffritz]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
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.

Just buy it. Those other chargers work. It's time for adventure!
But GM has to build it first. They’re trying to wait until battery supply improves. It won’t, for quite some time. Tesla use every battery they can make or buy. GM has the capacity to make as many EVs annually as Tesla makes bi-weekly

[Bill in NC]

cbelt3 wrote:
High speed charging is the real deal. Road trip with my sons Bolt was annoying… 1 hour charge stops every 4 hours…

Yep, probably won't be buying a new or used non-Tesla EV until it has a NACS port onboard.

[modelamac]

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...
jdc,

This is very informative to me. I drive to FL from MI every Dec and back at end of April. I have a ICE van for this trip, but would like to get an EV. What has held me back was the lack of charging locations and charging speed. This 800 + mile trip "some guy" took in an EV gives me confidence that my next vehicle can be an EV. Charging an EV is not a problem at either end of this trip. It is the transition from one to the other that is always the question, and this example is very helpful for long distance travel.

[WHiiP]

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[jdc]

Maybe Im not seeing the big deal. Here in suburbia nor cal, I wouldn't be surprised if there arent at least 1000 teslas (and others, saw an ionic 6 yesterday) within a mile circle. Wife and walk the hood and could easily count at least 100 that we can see, not including those in garages.

And we have seen tesla in home chargers go into lots homes here.

We drive from SF to So Cal down Hwy 5 a few times a year -- about 450 miles -- every other car coming either way is a tesla.

There are tesla stations everywhere, Its just normalized here?