The trip my brother and I took yesterday was from the Asheville area, in the top left of the map, down towards Gastonia in the lower center, it was 101 miles. The main east-west road in this photo is I 40. Tesla has "Supercharger" stations set up along the roads, they are at motels or at gas stations. You can see in the left part of the photo there are 2 Superchargers, in the Asheville area, and the one in the top center of the photo is in Hickory NC, about 70 miles away. So, one supercharger every 70 miles or so on the Interstates.
To get a good charge at a Supercharger takes 40 minutes and costs about $20.
Obviously it would be ridiculous to attempt a long distance trip in this vehicle.
My brother didn't buy it for that, you might say he just bought this car for the hell of it. As I said we are not greenies and we think that "climate change" is a bunch of BS. My brother has a shiny new Nissan 4WD pickup for his main vehicle and for long trips. Plus he uses it to haul firewood to his log cabin, he burns his wood stove all winter just like I do.
We are up here in the NC mountains. It is 43 miles, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, to drive to the top of Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak this side of the Mississippi. One month from now during leaf season, this will be the perfect vehicle to make that trip, twisty roads all the way. Drive it around for a hundred ten miles in a day, take it back to your carport and plug it in. Great car for a day trip like that.
I'm sure there are guys on this forum who have bought expensive motorcycles on the same deal, just to have some fun on a sunny weekend drive, not for a main means of transportation.
The trip my brother and I took yesterday was from the Asheville area, in the top left of the map, down towards Gastonia in the lower center, it was 101 miles. The main east-west road in this photo is I 40. Tesla has "Supercharger" stations set up along the roads, they are at motels or at gas stations. You can see in the left part of the photo there are 2 Superchargers, in the Asheville area, and the one in the top center of the photo is in Hickory NC, about 70 miles away. So, one supercharger every 70 miles or so on the Interstates.
To get a good charge at a Supercharger takes 40 minutes and costs about $20.
Obviously it would be ridiculous to attempt a long distance trip in this vehicle.
My brother didn't buy it for that, you might say he just bought this car for the hell of it. As I said we are not greenies and we think that "climate change" is a bunch of BS. My brother has a shiny new Nissan 4WD pickup for his main vehicle and for long trips. Plus he uses it to haul firewood to his log cabin, he burns his wood stove all winter just like I do.
We are up here in the NC mountains. It is 43 miles, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, to drive to the top of Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak this side of the Mississippi. One month from now during leaf season, this will be the perfect vehicle to make that trip, twisty roads all the way. Drive it around for a hundred ten miles in a day, take it back to your carport and plug it in. Great car for a day trip like that.
I'm sure there are guys on this forum who have bought expensive motorcycles on the same deal, just to have some fun on a sunny weekend drive, not for a main means of transportation.
I live in Mississippi. I saw a Tesla with California plates the other day. Is it possible to drive from California to Mississippi in a Tesla?
I prefer 427/454s with dual four barrel Webbers myself. I stopped using electric cars when I was six or when I went to the fair to play bumper cars.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
One of the guys in our birding club down south has one of those X versions and he touts the charging stations all over too. He did say that the a/c and the heater pull down the range some, but he and the wife did try a cross country trip in the thing a couple years back. I would get impatient waiting 40 minutes for my car to charge on a trip. I've not been in a Model 3, but his X was sure no prize to ride in when we went birding. Hard low seats, limited visibility and rough ride with those big wheels and performance tires. With as fast as these things are, I'll bet that they are kind of hard on tires. Tesla does have an interesting battery system though. As I understand it, there is a whole big bank of very small flash light size batteries that you can replace individually. Their dealer network is like nonexistent and you need to deal with the factory or that is how it was two years ago. For that X car and maybe some of the others, you can order a performance upgrade over the phone and they program your car remotely. Too Buck Rogers for me. A buddy of mine is an EMT and they are cautioned about using the jaws of life to get someone out of an electric car. Think cutting through a high voltage wire.
My other auto is a .45
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
The Roadsters, if they ever get released, are supposed sub 2 sec 0-60 cars. Under 9 in the 1/4.
Not long after the “2020” roadster was announced, my wife decided she wanted one. Rather than put a down payment on it, the cooler head prevailed and we put 10% of the purchase price into TSLA in “her” brokerage account that has been sitting.
We agreed that if it grew to the purchase price of the Roadster, and she still wanted it, we’d buy one. Seems she is still interested because she regularly checks to see if it has hit $600.
For now, hybrid is the way to go, I am convinced. For passenger and medium SUV use, anyway. Not so much for towing yet. Hybrid gives you the best of both worlds, IMO: electric control, torque and assist, but with the convenience of gasoline refueling.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
I understand initial reluctance of electric cars but I'm somewhat dumbfounded by the ignorance displayed in threads like this.
Some of you fugkers need to read more.
As in... a LOT more.
LOL
Read more......................bwahahahaha...............that's a good one around these part.............
When do you take the comedy show on the road?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
As in, did the calculations take into account the amount of CO2 produced in the production, transportation and refining of the gasoline they were comparing the battery production to?
There's a very big caveat here too,
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The calculation is based on the assumption that the electricity mix used in the battery factory consists of more than half of the fossil fuels.
considering that the majority of US electrical generation is now in nuclear, renewables, and natural gas (which releases about 30% less CO2 than oil and 45% less than coal). And the percentage of fossil fuel generation continues to drop yearly.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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