I've seen several Tesla videos where the remaining range when from some tens of miles to zero instantly, and left the drivers stranded for that reason. One was parked and vampire drain got him, the others were in the middle of a drive. I remember one were he was at 33 miles or so and the car stopped.
If I'm reading this right, even from almost fully-drained, it only charged at full rate for about 6 minutes, and then started slowing down.
I don't think that's true unless you stay on one of the coasts. I wouldn't do that, just to be safe in preserving range. Naps make me feel worse than sick. They're debilitating for hours.
Regarding "range anxiety", my friend wants to replace one of his cars with a Tesla, but he's planning on getting a gas-powered 4Runner because he assumes the Tesla can't really go out of town. He likes to go way, way off the beaten path in the mountains and do hiking, climbing and ice-climbing so I think he's right. He'd often need a round trip winter range of about 450 miles for the places he goes.
Tesla reports the SuperCharger rate is ‘130 mi in 1/2 hour.’ Charging is one of those things a lot of people don’t understand. I run benchmarks because I want to know the details. In knowledge there is power. Bob Wilson
I always assumed (before I started looking into it) that Supercharging would work similarly to they way I charge my model-airplane batteries, which is that full charge rate is maintained until about 95% (of full 4.20V float voltage). That's at 1C charge rate. But these high-energy batteries Tesla uses can't really handle that, it seems, so Supercharging is actually something like half as fast as the 120kW advertising would lead you to believe (for 10% to 90%).
I’ll try to replicate. Do you have the URLs? Remember I’m the former Prius owner who has run out of gas over 50 times across three generations of Prius. Bob Wilson
As an absolute, you would be wrong. I live about as far from any ocean as possible. We are quite comfortable taking our Tesla’s on trips.
Even the guy who did it said it was intermittent. He was used to running down to 10 miles or less and got stranded. He said he was going to start looking for charging at 50 miles instead. He was from the Denver metro area and it was a YouTube video. The other one I don't remember as well.
The statement was, "with no range anxiety", and that would require you to be on one of the coasts or being very careful not to leave the main paths if you aren't on one of the coasts. There are hundreds of places I couldn't go in a Tesla even without leaving my state. If I just stayed driving charger-to-charger, it would be fine, but very little of the fun stuff is on the main interstates.
Once again, wrong for my experience. None of the 'fun stuff' is so far off the path that I had any range anxiety. Your "fun stuff" might be so far off away from electricity that it doesn't work for you, but please don't tell me that is the case for everyone that doesn't live on the coasts. We have one of the most active Tesla clubs in the USA, and there are a whole bunch of us that would disagree with you -
We just got version 9.8.5 which is about three weeks old and jumped about 4 months forward. If it happens to me, I’ll share. Replication is critical so I’ll try it. So “10 miles” is my target? Bob Wilson
Looks like the people who drive a Tesla and run out of "gas" are the same people who have always ran out of gas.
