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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/zyY6hzRl.jpg) I drove my brother over to Charlotte yesterday to pick up his new Tesla. He let me drive it for 45 miles. Good God what a car! Acceleration is unreal. Very quiet. Controls easy to use. This car would be lots of fun on a twisty road.
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How far can you drive before you have to call a tow truck to come get you?
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Keep us posted on his long term ownership. Battery life, auto-driving glitches, terrible build quality, battery fires, you know, the usual Tesla problems.
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Awesome fossil fuel powered vehicles that can only drive 240 miles once every 8 hours.
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Every so often on my drive to my gun club on a twisty mountain road, a Tesla will pass me on a solid double yellow, when I'm doing the speed limit. The acceleration is amazing, but the driver is a real azz hole. Some day it's gonna catch up with him and unfortunately most likely some innocent person will get killed too.
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How far can you drive before you have to call a tow truck to come get you? We drove 101 miles out today, and 101 miles back home. I was sweating that battery charge, when we got home it had 8 percent charge left. This is with little A/C on a 68 degree cloudy day. On a sunny 93 degree day that A/C is going to cut that mileage, no doubt. So, best case you better not plan to go over 200 miles. Brother is disappointed in the cruising range as Tesla claims it will go 300 miles. However, so far, that is the only disappointment as this vehicle is fast, quiet and smooth. Very well designed controls and easy to drive. Very sporty car I would love to take it out on some twisty mountain roads.
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That's only after you break the batteries in.......................
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I’d love to see what electric race cars would be like. Drag racing, F1. Be kinda neat.
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I’d love to see what electric race cars would be like. Drag racing, F1. Be kinda neat. Don Garlits built some battery powered dragsters that were pretty fast but not even close to being competitive.
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How far can you drive before you have to call a tow truck to come get you? We drove 101 miles out today, and 101 miles back home. I was sweating that battery charge, when we got home it had 8 percent charge left. This is with little A/C on a 68 degree cloudy day. On a sunny 93 degree day that A/C is going to cut that mileage, no doubt. So, best case you better not plan to go over 200 miles. Brother is disappointed in the cruising range as Tesla claims it will go 300 miles. However, so far, that is the only disappointment as this vehicle is fast, quiet and smooth. Very well designed controls and easy to drive. Very sporty car I would love to take it out on some twisty mountain roads. And how long does it take to come back to full charge on 240v on an almost empty charge state.
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Every so often on my drive to my gun club on a twisty mountain road, a Tesla will pass me on a solid double yellow, when I'm doing the speed limit. The acceleration is amazing, but the driver is a real azz hole. Some day it's gonna catch up with him and unfortunately most likely some innocent person will get killed too. One day on my bicycle I might get hit from behind by a Tesla I didn't hear coming. There's some irony in there somewhere. OTOH I ain't been taken out by a Prius yet so there's some hope.
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How far can you drive before you have to call a tow truck to come get you? We drove 101 miles out today, and 101 miles back home. I was sweating that battery charge, when we got home it had 8 percent charge left. This is with little A/C on a 68 degree cloudy day. On a sunny 93 degree day that A/C is going to cut that mileage, no doubt. So, best case you better not plan to go over 200 miles. Brother is disappointed in the cruising range as Tesla claims it will go 300 miles. However, so far, that is the only disappointment as this vehicle is fast, quiet and smooth. Very well designed controls and easy to drive. Very sporty car I would love to take it out on some twisty mountain roads. And how long does it take to come back to full charge on 240v on an almost empty charge state. I wired up a 4-wire 240v receptacle, just a clothes dryer receptacle that we bought at Lowes for $15. Bought 25 feet of 10-3 with ground plus a 240v breaker, and I wired it up in his carport. This will charge it up from nothing to full charge in 13 hours. This is what he charged it up with last night.
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So drive 200 miles and wait 13 hours for another 200 miles? nah
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Liberal idiot that lives across the street from me has had one for nearly 3 years and I have lost track of all the times he's driving a loaner car because it is in the shop again.
Last time around it was a electrical fire that nearly totaled it, it was in the shop for 3 months that time....
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Hey if he is happy I am happy. Never understood why folks are concerned with how one chooses to spend their money.
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They bring em here for cold weather testing but I've noticed they don't drive em up the Alcan.
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It’s a pretty fast car but not as fast as my gas car. But not as expensive either. 😁
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Oh and that on a twisty road would get chewed up by most German sports cars without the vaginal plug in device.
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I like that pic of your brother looking all badass leaning on his new Tesla. Clearly he is a discerning man well-versed in the finer things in life.
Is that his dating site photo?
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