Where I play Pickleball in the morning there has been a Tesla S with Vermont plates for several weeks.

EV Cannon Ball record. Coast to coast in a Tesla, 42hrs 17mins. They stopped at 16 superchargers and I think they said they only charged for around 15 minutes each time.

It took a lot of planning to pull this off.

Quick video on setting the record.
https://youtu.be/Q1X2fEjFQxQ

A buddy's wife inherited one. It was in Kali and they drove it home to KY. Apparently it wasn't a problem. The folks who keep repeating the idea that they take a while to recharge are just ignorant. Remember, you've got to put gas in your car too. That also takes time. And money.

I agree that most of them are ugly. But please confine your complaints to facts, not imagined ones.

The other day I saw a car with Hawaii plates, reckon there might have been a boat involved with that one.

Tesla super chargers are available almost every 150m apart along pretty much every major interstate. Multiple locations are in major cities, often 1 in smaller cities (from Slidell and Baton Rouge there are 6)

the stock navigation system will say where to stop and for how long

"a better route planne"r app is very good, shows all the 3rd party charging stations as well

While at the airport in Detroit I decided to use some of that 1,400mbps 5GUW internet to see how the 4 hour, 300 mile nonstop drive I had made to get there would work with an EV. What got me thinking about it was all the Teslas and Mach-Es that I saw on they way down. It looked like in the 217 miles between our house and Saginaw, there might be 8 chargers total. From Saginaw south, it looked better.

 
Lil' old Wickenburg has had Tesla stations since 2014, in the City Hall parking lot, old downtown. Possibly because we're on the route from PHX to Las Vegas. 236 miles from Wickenburg to Vegas.
 

Several years ago I built a home for a client that had one of the first Tesla’s in Virginia. I asked him about charging etc and he told me that he and his wife just got back from a trip to the Grand Canyon! He said the car automatically finds charging stations along the route and many of the Tesla super chargers are at Marriott hotels of which he was a member so they just plugged in each night to get fully charged and only had to stop on average once during the day to partially charge.

Made me think…

Could be Military owner. I bought a number of vehicles in San Diego that I registered in WV.

My neighbor is a Firefighter who bought his truck here but and has out of state plates.

Possibly, but for me I think a battery op'd golf cart when I retire to Del Boca Vista

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by jljones:
He tells me that not only EV is coming for all of us at some point...

Nope. Not in my lifetime anyway.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
Several years ago I built a home for a client that had one of the first Tesla’s in Virginia. I asked him about charging etc and he told me that he and his wife just got back from a trip to the Grand Canyon! He said the car automatically finds charging stations along the route and many of the Tesla super chargers are at Marriott hotels of which he was a member so they just plugged in each night to get fully charged and only had to stop on average once during the day to partially charge.

Made me think…

Pretty much this. Most people that have a garage just charge at home. for what it's worth I can charge to 350 miles of range for $6.20 at home. Super chargers are about $30-$45 to fill up totally from 0 to full.

WSJ

I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.


3 days ago — Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn't soon do it again.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
The other day I saw a car with Hawaii plates, reckon there might have been a boat involved with that one.

Had a customer at the Chevrolet dealer I worked for in college.
He had a C6 ZR1 & his wife had a C5 Vette. They both had the same lic plate number.
His on TX plates, hers on HI plates.

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Originally posted by walker77:
EV Cannon Ball record. Coast to coast in a Tesla, 42hrs 17mins. They stopped at 16 superchargers and I think they said they only charged for around 15 minutes each time.

It took a lot of planning to pull this off.

Actually it doesn't.

You enter where you want to go on the built-in softwear and it figures out all your stops and how long you'll be at each stop...it takes into consideration the distance between stops for the most efficient route. It doesn't let you run anywhere near empty and will usually route you to a station before you even reach 20%. It checks availability of chargers along the way and updates in real time...it will route you to different charging stations if the primary is busy/full.

You don't get many station hogs, as the software automatically increases the price per minute if you leave your car at a station after it is fully charged. This is with Testla Super Chargers, I've seen other EVs parked, what seemed like, overnight at Electrify America charging stations in hotel/resort parking lots. I guess if you were going out to dinner, and parked at a Testla Supercharger, you'd have to move you car after having cocktails while waiting for your table

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
WSJ

I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.


3 days ago — Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn't soon do it again.

There's no way I'd do it on anything other than a Tesla. Their supercharger network & rate of charge is only one I'd even try it with. 200 miles of charge in around 15 minutes. Others are way to slow in my opinion.

Bill Gates has a half a billion short position against Tesla

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
If this was driven out, that was not an overnight drive.

She (the driver) needed to plan where she could stop every 250-300 miles on the trip for a 3 to 5 battery charge - and she needed to know where those (the chargers) are.

Each stop would only be for about 20mins and the built-in navigation software would automatically route her to an open chargers along her route.

That's with a Tesla. If she had a new Lucid Air, she'd have a range, on a full charge, of 500+ miles. Granted it can't use Tesla Super Chargers, but using Electrify America DC chargers will get her 300 additional miles in 20 mins

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
What happens when you get stuck in traffic and need the air conditioning or heat? How long can it run?

About 3-5 days

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
She wouldn't soon do it again.

I wouldn't even try it in a Chevy Volt. It has neither the range nor the charging ability for a road trip.

It would be worst than trying it in a Nissan Leaf EV (149 mile range) and likely almost as bad as in a Madza MX-30 EV Crosssover (100 mile range)

I have a Tesla Midel 3 with Colorado plates in front of my house in Baton Rouge. My son drove it here from Denver. This was the second time. Usually a 15-20 minute stop to add 200-250 miles.

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