I've done this trip plenty of times before in a Model 3 SR+, and so I thought I would document what it's like in a Model Y RWD.
The weather was is the low 20s, with some light rain coming out of Sydney. The car was driven at the speed limit to stay with traffic, and it could certainly have been driven more efficiently on the freeway between Sydney and Goulburn as I was battling the holiday traffic.
Route - Chatswood to City Hill, Canberra, via the M5 on Fairford road
Distance: 291km
Total Energy used: 42kWh
Average: 144Wh/km
Arrival charge: 26%
I noticed that on departure the car estimated my arrival charge as low as 12%, and at one point it was as high 44% in its estimates. That said as you get further into the trip the more accurate the estimate, and I'm sure that I would have had better arrival charge had I driven it more conservatively.
An easy way to eek out more range when leaving Sydney is to avoid the M2/M7 loop and cut across the city instead. It takes longer, but is a shorter distance at a lower speed resulting in more range. Given these results, I'm sure that driven carefully, staying below 110km/h, and in the opposite direction towards Sydney that a 400km range is possible on a full charge. Regardless for me the range of the Tesla is never the limiting factor, the law of the weakest bladder rules in my family and we had to make an unscheduled stop 2 hours into the trip.
"Tesla Model Y in San Ramon" by DestinationFearFan is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The weather was is the low 20s, with some light rain coming out of Sydney. The car was driven at the speed limit to stay with traffic, and it could certainly have been driven more efficiently on the freeway between Sydney and Goulburn as I was battling the holiday traffic.
Route - Chatswood to City Hill, Canberra, via the M5 on Fairford road
Distance: 291km
Total Energy used: 42kWh
Average: 144Wh/km
Arrival charge: 26%
I noticed that on departure the car estimated my arrival charge as low as 12%, and at one point it was as high 44% in its estimates. That said as you get further into the trip the more accurate the estimate, and I'm sure that I would have had better arrival charge had I driven it more conservatively.
An easy way to eek out more range when leaving Sydney is to avoid the M2/M7 loop and cut across the city instead. It takes longer, but is a shorter distance at a lower speed resulting in more range. Given these results, I'm sure that driven carefully, staying below 110km/h, and in the opposite direction towards Sydney that a 400km range is possible on a full charge. Regardless for me the range of the Tesla is never the limiting factor, the law of the weakest bladder rules in my family and we had to make an unscheduled stop 2 hours into the trip.
"Tesla Model Y in San Ramon" by DestinationFearFan is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Admin note: Image added for Blog Feed thumbnail