I've had my car for 4 months now, and I finally had an opportunity to give it a real test. Drove it 120 miles, 240 mi round trip + dog mode all day. On the return trip back, I had about 100 miles of remaining range, and so it routed me to a super charger 80 miles away. This gave me 5% estimated battery life when I arrived at the supercharger. Felt a bit close, but I figured Tesla would know better than I.
I get on the highway, and within a few miles I see that estimated battery life drop from 5 - 4 - 3 - 2. I quickly decide it isn't worth risking it, and decided to manually route myself to a closer supercharger only to find out there wasn't another one between where I was and where I was going to. I turned around and went to the one where I left from, 10 miles backtrack.
So why didn't it just tell me to go to that supercharger to begin with? The other one was a risk, and I only needed to charge to 50% to get to my destination. As a new owner, I trusted Tesla software over my own intuition, and it almost resulted in me being stranded at night in the middle of nowhere.
On a side note, supercharging is cool. That was my first experience, and while I knew it was crazy fast, I wasn't expecting this fast. Seeing a charge rate over 900 miles / hr was fascinating. It was like having an entire substation's power dumped into my car. I went to a drive through to eat in my car while it charged, and I didn't even have time to eat it all, or finish a youtube video I put on.
I get on the highway, and within a few miles I see that estimated battery life drop from 5 - 4 - 3 - 2. I quickly decide it isn't worth risking it, and decided to manually route myself to a closer supercharger only to find out there wasn't another one between where I was and where I was going to. I turned around and went to the one where I left from, 10 miles backtrack.
So why didn't it just tell me to go to that supercharger to begin with? The other one was a risk, and I only needed to charge to 50% to get to my destination. As a new owner, I trusted Tesla software over my own intuition, and it almost resulted in me being stranded at night in the middle of nowhere.
On a side note, supercharging is cool. That was my first experience, and while I knew it was crazy fast, I wasn't expecting this fast. Seeing a charge rate over 900 miles / hr was fascinating. It was like having an entire substation's power dumped into my car. I went to a drive through to eat in my car while it charged, and I didn't even have time to eat it all, or finish a youtube video I put on.