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Originally Posted by micvite
It's not 20 minutes every 300 miles, a more realistic range is 20 minutes every 150 miles just fyi and that's assuming you're doing 70 mph or so... God forbid you're in a state where the limit is 80-85 and people do 95 on the regular, you're gonna get 100 miles out of a charge vs 350 out of a gas guzzling m5 doing 18 mpg. Took me 13 hours to get from NJ to niagara falls in my tesla, a drive that is normally done in my bmw in 5-6 (early morning no traffic, pushing the car a bit one fill up) stopped 7 times to charge cruising at 85 in the tesla and leaving home with like 60% battery since I had to use the car earlier in the day and had depleted a full charge just a few hours before the trip (and I have 240v charging at home, 11kw/h) my tesla was a 2019 model s performance raven mode, 100 kwh battery pack with 92 usable (because when they advertise your battery packs they don't tell you you actually don't get the whole thing because if you were to actually deplete it to 0 it probably wouldn't ever charge up anymore so they leave a decent chunk as a reserve) and yeah... missed an exit for charging due to road work rerouting the exit and navigation not knowing about it and drove for 10 miles at 35 mph with no heat in the middle of winter freezing my ass off to make it to the jet charger (literally hit 0% and drove 5 more miles shitting my pants that I'd be stuck in the cold for hours waiting for a tow truck at 5 am because tesla wants you to get to the charger with 10% to make use of the highest charging speeds up to 60% then drive for another 30 minutes and stop for another 20 to charge (usually at a mall or restaurant or you know any business that's closed throughout the night unless you get lucky with like a wawa charger on the east coast) so God forbid you need to actually use the bathroom or get a drink or something, you then have to stop at a rest stop or gas station on top of your charging stop and that's gonna add another 20 minutes to the trip. Everyone says oh go get coffee walk around stretch your legs. Idk about you guys but if I'm going on a trip I wanna just get to my fking destination, not have to stretch my legs every hundred miles. On the way back I literally depleted the battery from 100 to 0 in 80 miles driving how I normally drive my m5 and from that same exact point (rest stop in pa) those same 80 miles are about a quarter of a tank. Just face the facts, an ev is currently a commuter car assuming your round trip commute is less than 100 miles or you have charging wherever your destination is that you can leave hooked up while you work for 8 hours.
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I literally have no idea how you made this trip into 7 charging stops unless it was below zero and you were going like 100 MPH. According to A Better Route Planner, you should be able to do a trip from North NJ to Niagra Falls on ONE stop in good weather. So factor in 2 additional stops due to colder weather and load, how on earth did you make SEVEN?
I played with the settings, set the reference consumption at 350 Wh/mile at 65, which is high, and set the speed up to 125% of the limit and STILL it only shows two stops and a total trip time of 6.5 hours. It's only a 375 mile run. Did you have like a 50 MPH headwind?
I'm not saying you're lying....but your situation is definitely not the norm. I've done 400 plus miles in one day in freezing weather with only 2 charging stops. And that was on a Model 3 performance with only a 75 kWh battery.