Wonder (and repeat false information) no more as electric vehicles by the laws of physics must get their energy inputs from electricity coming from outside the vehicle for which your Mirai and every other fuel cell vehicle does not. Another untruth. Unfortunately at the moment to clean up the false information you purposefully spread - its harmful to the honest discussion of green transportation tech.
The Mirai has an innovative grille design that directs oxygen to the fuel cells where it combines with hydrogen to create a chemical reaction that manufactures electric power. Wow imagine that it creates its own electricity from outside sources. But your right it’s not an electric vehicle. Neither is a hybrid. According to you only electric fields of energy can be plug into a car to make a car electric. Interesting concept
That is I-90 & I-94, exactly the high-traffic rat-race route I very much want to avoid. It completes misses the desired route: Still sparse, many down in the 7 to 16 kW range. Need the NEMA 14-50 adapter too, which on a Model 3 adds only 30 miles per hour of charge. Might want to bring the NEMA 14-30 also. Daily distance potential remains quite crimped due to lack of fast daytime recharges.
Sorry, I tend to be destination oriented. It may make sense to to use this as a backbone route with diversions to sightseeing areas as 'triangles.' In our case, the Tesla backup is a BMW i3-REx which easily handles 'off grid' drives. For example, I used it to see the eclipse in Tennessee. Bob Wilson
BMW i3 only travels 153 miles per charge with a fresh battery - how far can one go on off grid drives?
Rex has an ICE .... some owners have increased the gas tank size in order to make less stops. does nothing to make it a renewably fueled car Mostly by non-renewable's because it's the least expensive way to create the very expensive hydrogen finally seems to be progress with that realization! .
Pre-COVID, I benchmarked the cost to drive between Huntsville AL and Nashville TN. EV using Electrify America and EVgo was 4x more expensive than a tank of premium gas that the range extender uses. Understand my "green" credentials are the dollars that stay in my wallet. Bob Wilson
For us, all of these sorts of trips are 'journey' adventures, picking up numerous sights and activities along the way. For that autumn cross country drive a few years back, for spouse's high school reunion, we took hiking boots and gravel bikes. We didn't reach the aspirational turnaround point of Mt. Katahdin, but did get a bit into Maine before turning around. The 'journey' pattern continued half way back, not switching to 'destination home' mode until we entered South Dakota. 44 days total journey built around a 2 day event, but taking in a very large sampling of Americana. If not for the pandemic, we would have done it again this autumn. There are plenty of things we missed last time. While the route you mapped can be a backbone for a very nice journey, it will be very different, without much practical overlap to one backboned on the route I mapped. The separations are often greater than the round trip range of your Model 3, at some points even reaching the one way range. The charging network is definitely improving, and is already sufficient for a good portion of the population. But is not yet where we need it to be, so we are still looking to a PHEV.
Your gold, your requirements, your choice. Strange as it may seem, there is a credible choice for a hydrogen fool-cell. But that only exists from San Diego to San Francisco up to Donner Pass for a leased fool-cell car. The silly one doesn’t understand but others have their own gold ... not acknowledged by the irresponsible troll. Bob Wilson
Hey Bob - lets refrain from name calling. You may not like my choice in EV vehicles and I am not a fan of Tesla - but I respectfully don’t make derogatory remarks to you personally.
BP and Tesla ink deal for $100M in superchargers. Smart BP move. Tesla sells $100M in Superchargers to bp
Not that I haven't done the same thing on several occasions but there is an earlier thread on this topic already. .
