I was heading back from Henderson, NV to Long Beach, CA yesterday and thought I would share the trip with you to give new road trippers an insight to the model 3 with 19" sport wheels (40 psi on tires) in adverse conditions (some mine and some mother nature)
I left with 297 miles rated range and plugged my home address in at 265 miles away, the nav unit did not calculate any stops but I knew that I would most likely need to stop as Traffic flow was at least 80 mph
When I left we were traveling almost head on into 30 to 40 mph winds (those winds were present about 90% of the trip) and I set auto pilot to flow with the traffic so we were really moving, rated range was disappearing much faster than actual miles driven which I did expect and after quite a while the nav re routed me to the Yermo supercharger, I decided that we would rather stop at the Rancho Cucamonga supercharger so we could have a bite to eat at a decent restaurant at about the right time for dinner, nav unit said we should have plenty of range so I kept traveling at high speed into strong headwinds.
About 6 miles before we got to the top of Cajon pass we had 38 miles rated and 30 miles to the supercharger, I knew we were cutting it close but the downhill run would save us, then we hit 5 to 15 mph traffic all the way to the top of the pass and I started to worry a little as we were consuming 400 Wh/mi or more in this uphill traffic, we hit the top of the pass with 29 range and 24 to go actual, with auto pilot still on we coasted downhill almost the entire rest of the way still in heavy traffic and arrived with 26 rated miles left so 3 miles rated range burned traveling the last 24 miles.
All together we traveled 217 actual miles on 271 rated miles of range in 100 degree temps, strong headwinds and very high speeds the whole way on 19" sport wheels with 40 psi in the tires (cold) so with all that we still managed over 80% of rated range and I was very happy with that.
When we stopped at the Rancho supercharger I charged for only 15 minutes and got back 106 miles rated range! I cannot imagine how the V3 Supercharger is going to be!
I left with 297 miles rated range and plugged my home address in at 265 miles away, the nav unit did not calculate any stops but I knew that I would most likely need to stop as Traffic flow was at least 80 mph
When I left we were traveling almost head on into 30 to 40 mph winds (those winds were present about 90% of the trip) and I set auto pilot to flow with the traffic so we were really moving, rated range was disappearing much faster than actual miles driven which I did expect and after quite a while the nav re routed me to the Yermo supercharger, I decided that we would rather stop at the Rancho Cucamonga supercharger so we could have a bite to eat at a decent restaurant at about the right time for dinner, nav unit said we should have plenty of range so I kept traveling at high speed into strong headwinds.
About 6 miles before we got to the top of Cajon pass we had 38 miles rated and 30 miles to the supercharger, I knew we were cutting it close but the downhill run would save us, then we hit 5 to 15 mph traffic all the way to the top of the pass and I started to worry a little as we were consuming 400 Wh/mi or more in this uphill traffic, we hit the top of the pass with 29 range and 24 to go actual, with auto pilot still on we coasted downhill almost the entire rest of the way still in heavy traffic and arrived with 26 rated miles left so 3 miles rated range burned traveling the last 24 miles.
All together we traveled 217 actual miles on 271 rated miles of range in 100 degree temps, strong headwinds and very high speeds the whole way on 19" sport wheels with 40 psi in the tires (cold) so with all that we still managed over 80% of rated range and I was very happy with that.
When we stopped at the Rancho supercharger I charged for only 15 minutes and got back 106 miles rated range! I cannot imagine how the V3 Supercharger is going to be!