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therealdieseld t1_iu3vyy6 wrote

Reply to comment by Educational_Paint987 in Seen earlier today. by ThanksNew9906

Been on many road trip, there’s no shortage of super chargers and gives you a change to stretch your legs, get water, use the restroom, etc

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shbd12 t1_iu3zge7 wrote

Seriously, if you are driving, say, across Pennsylvania, do you have to plan stops to charge to make sure there is a charger? How long to charge from a 25% battery to 100%? How far can you drive on an interstate using 75% of the battery? How much distance do you lose at night? Not challenging, I am genuinely interested.

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therealdieseld t1_iu406if wrote

I actually recently went through PA, Paramus to Pittsburgh. The in-car navigation can calculate if you have enough battery or not and will route you to chargers automatically. For road trips, you don’t need to charge to 100%, just enough to get to the next charger. So for a 20 minute stop, that gives you about 1.5 - 2 hours of driving. A full 100% charge can take well over an hour honestly. But your 0-80% is 45 minutes and 0-50% is less than half that. I regularly go to Montreal which would normally be 5.5 hours to my destination. All the charging needed takes an extra 2 hours. And that’s including winter segregation. Overnight doesn’t use much battery if any, UNLESS you have sentry mode on. I believe it’s a couple percent overnight, 1-2%.

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