On 11/30/19 5:56 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Depends on distance. My car is always charged. So I always have 200 miles on the tank. At the end of a full day of driving yes it needs to be charged. Local police departments are making Teslas work. Just takes a different mindset. No maintenance and a truck good for a half million miles with no fuel costs is pretty attractive to me (I charge with solar).
How much do you lose climbing elevation? Let's say sea level up to 7000' 180 miles uphill (San Fransisco to Donner Pass). It's a minimal grade for the first 100 miles then the last 80 is nothing but uphill. Back when Tesla was first doing their supercharger network thing they put ones in Roseville (basically the bottom of the hill) and more in Truckee (just past the summit) so the assumption was that the climb is hard and you would charge before going up the hill and charge again after the climb. Even just to go to Lake Tahoe requires crossing an 8000' summit (Reno is around 4200').
I'd like to get my wife an electric car, but it seems like normal mountain driving would eat the battery quickly and then it never gets used except for flat driving to and from her job or shopping. I'll have 16.3kW DC of solar panels by the end of February and the way I see it is free "fuel" for the car. I don't care about saving the planet as much as I am interested in technology.
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