The below question is from Felix Kramer, who just got a Volt:
My question: how far can people get from the San Francisco Bay Area
to Tahoe via Route 80 and over Donner Pass? Truckee? Squaw Valley?
Northstar? Kings Beach? Incline Village?
I'll explain why I'm wondering how easy it is. Starting in 2006, the
friendly people at Hyatt Incline Village let me plug in my Prius
conversion in the front driveway, and around that time they installed
a station for Teslas, but I was never able to hear who used it. (It's
not still there according to EVChargerNews.)
You may know me as a plug-in hybrid advocate, but if you've heard me
talk you'll know I'm a huge fan of pure EVs. The sooner and the more
of them we get the more we all win. And I go back all the way to
"talks in restaurant" days with Tesla's founders. I know lots of
people at the company; I thought of waiting for the S, but instead
will be replacing our other ICE vehicle, a Camry Hybrid, with a LEAF.
That said, I'm really happy tonight I drove my new Chevy Volt the 225
miles from Redwood City to Northstar-at-Tahoe without refueling the
car -- just myself, at the venerable Ikeda's if you know Route 80.
For nine and a half years, I've wanted to be able to drive a plug-in
car to Tahoe. I'll be writing about it and showing photos and data; I
want to know if I can say that the Roadster can make this uphill
trip. Given the nominal 244-mile range, I imagine most people make
the trip easily with a short mealtime charge along the way, but I'd
love to hear any stories about maximum non-stop miles and perhaps a
"slower than 65 MPH" strategy. I didn't find anything at
teslamotorsclub.com. If there's a public archive with some of that
info, I'd like the URL; otherwise, I'd appreciate if you respond here and copy me.
Many thanks, Felix
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Felix Kramer [email protected]
Founder California Cars Initiative
http://www.calcars.org
http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html
Chad's comments: 225 miles sounds easy enough if it's flat; but apparently there's significant elevation here--7000 feet! And you get less than half of that going downhill on the other side. Sounds to me like that would cost about 30 miles, so you'd have to go well under the speed limit to make it without charging. Given that there are charging stations along the way, I doubt anybody's tried it...
My question: how far can people get from the San Francisco Bay Area
to Tahoe via Route 80 and over Donner Pass? Truckee? Squaw Valley?
Northstar? Kings Beach? Incline Village?
I'll explain why I'm wondering how easy it is. Starting in 2006, the
friendly people at Hyatt Incline Village let me plug in my Prius
conversion in the front driveway, and around that time they installed
a station for Teslas, but I was never able to hear who used it. (It's
not still there according to EVChargerNews.)
You may know me as a plug-in hybrid advocate, but if you've heard me
talk you'll know I'm a huge fan of pure EVs. The sooner and the more
of them we get the more we all win. And I go back all the way to
"talks in restaurant" days with Tesla's founders. I know lots of
people at the company; I thought of waiting for the S, but instead
will be replacing our other ICE vehicle, a Camry Hybrid, with a LEAF.
That said, I'm really happy tonight I drove my new Chevy Volt the 225
miles from Redwood City to Northstar-at-Tahoe without refueling the
car -- just myself, at the venerable Ikeda's if you know Route 80.
For nine and a half years, I've wanted to be able to drive a plug-in
car to Tahoe. I'll be writing about it and showing photos and data; I
want to know if I can say that the Roadster can make this uphill
trip. Given the nominal 244-mile range, I imagine most people make
the trip easily with a short mealtime charge along the way, but I'd
love to hear any stories about maximum non-stop miles and perhaps a
"slower than 65 MPH" strategy. I didn't find anything at
teslamotorsclub.com. If there's a public archive with some of that
info, I'd like the URL; otherwise, I'd appreciate if you respond here and copy me.
Many thanks, Felix
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Felix Kramer [email protected]
Founder California Cars Initiative
http://www.calcars.org
http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html
Chad's comments: 225 miles sounds easy enough if it's flat; but apparently there's significant elevation here--7000 feet! And you get less than half of that going downhill on the other side. Sounds to me like that would cost about 30 miles, so you'd have to go well under the speed limit to make it without charging. Given that there are charging stations along the way, I doubt anybody's tried it...