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Originally Posted by pukicabuki
New York to LA is 2791 miles.
265 mile range on the Tesla.
You have to stop 11 times to charge the battery.
The trip is ~42 hours of driving.
Add in the 11 hours of charging.
The trip is now ~26% longer in duration.
You've added 1-1.5 days of driving for the typical driver.
That's all assuming that you've taken the time to meticulously plan out your route in order to hit supercharging stations exactly when you need them. Any issues and you're stuck spending hours to get enough charge to make it to a supercharging station (110-volt outlet gives you 5 miles of range per hour of charging). You also cannot take any route you want to in order to do/see things along the way because you're limited to the locations of the supercharging stations.
Sounds like an incredibly shitty journey to me. But hey.... you save a few $$$ in gas so its totally worth it.
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Maybe they'll invent a car charger that plugs into the cigarette lighter of another car and you can do a "mid-flight refuel"