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Originally Posted by hoyasaxa
I’m sick of geriatric apologists and people who can’t hold their bladders going on about this. First, EV range is extremely sensitive to driving style. Second, for those of us who actually road trip, we want to be able to drive 4+ hours at 70-80mph without having to stop. Not everyone has the same needs or the same small bladders.
My wife and I can EASILY and safely do 1,000 miles in a day, and an anemic 250-300-mile range, shortened drastically by wind, hills, and higher speed, simply doesn’t cut it.
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Yep! Tl;dr: have to stop every two hours on the interstate in a Tesla model Y.
My Tesla’s range disappears at an alarming rate at 80 mph, so unless I’m drafting someone it’s really impractical for long distances.
I took a 112 mile round trip last weekend with half interstate and half country highways - averaged about 60 mph… started with 47% range. I would have ended with 2% so had to pop into a supercharger. My wh/mi was 285 or 3.5 mi/kWh. 65 degrees outside and breezy - sunny. I’ve done the same trip albeit a bit longer and took it easy as possible and got 4 mi/kWh which is about 300 miles of range.
So basically 300 miles is the max, and 270 is very optimistic for interstate, which means 220 is a decent estimate for 75-80 mph interstate. Assume I start from a SC at 85% battery that’s 85% of 300 = 255 x 220/300 = 190. Assuming I want to stop at 15% battery remaining to be safe that’s 15% * 75 kWh = 11 kWh * 3.6 = 40 miles of range. So I can go 150 miles or about 2 hours before I stop.
Check my math. We’ve done a trip starting 100% and got 173 miles to our destination averaging 70 mph, then 20 miles to the SC with about 10% battery left. Seems to check out.
Cold or wind or rain would make it even worse.