No2DinosaurFuel
Active Member
Depends on how much you value time for those once a week trip.
Here is how I look at it:
High speed, weather, terrain, temperature, degradation of battery, detours etc can cut your range down to 4/5 (optimistic) of the EPA actual. So you are really only counting on 190 or so miles even at 100% charge. This means you will have to stop at a supercharging station almost every time.
There is 26 weeks in a year. Let's say you stop at supercharging stations 80% of the time. The other 20% you either got lucky and the weather is nice or whatnot or you went slower than expected and saved enough energy to make it. This means you stop at supercharging stations 21 times out of the year.
While the wait for supercharging is not long, you do have to slow down, exit, enter the station, get out, plug in, and wait for 10-15minutes to charge and then unplug and get back in and drive back on the highway. Guess how long all this takes each time. I would say at least 20 minutes each if you are super fast. So all in all, you spent 400 minutes over the course of the year just doing this.
Now let's take the alternative with the X90D. You might occasionally stop at supercharging stations on those wicked days, so lets keep it simple and assume you only stop there 20% of the time vs the 80% if you got X75D. This comes out to be 5 times. So you spend 100 minutes.
So all in all, is your $10K worth the 300 minutes/year in time saving assuming you don't care about anything else you gain if got the X90D over the X75D.
Here is how I look at it:
High speed, weather, terrain, temperature, degradation of battery, detours etc can cut your range down to 4/5 (optimistic) of the EPA actual. So you are really only counting on 190 or so miles even at 100% charge. This means you will have to stop at a supercharging station almost every time.
There is 26 weeks in a year. Let's say you stop at supercharging stations 80% of the time. The other 20% you either got lucky and the weather is nice or whatnot or you went slower than expected and saved enough energy to make it. This means you stop at supercharging stations 21 times out of the year.
While the wait for supercharging is not long, you do have to slow down, exit, enter the station, get out, plug in, and wait for 10-15minutes to charge and then unplug and get back in and drive back on the highway. Guess how long all this takes each time. I would say at least 20 minutes each if you are super fast. So all in all, you spent 400 minutes over the course of the year just doing this.
Now let's take the alternative with the X90D. You might occasionally stop at supercharging stations on those wicked days, so lets keep it simple and assume you only stop there 20% of the time vs the 80% if you got X75D. This comes out to be 5 times. So you spend 100 minutes.
So all in all, is your $10K worth the 300 minutes/year in time saving assuming you don't care about anything else you gain if got the X90D over the X75D.