Right. But my point is you burn more power going up than you’ll regenerate going down.
> On Nov 30, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yah. Teslas are not like that. Going down a mountain generates power. Slowing > down (sort of braking) generates power. In aggressive throttle mode, you > hardly have to touch the brake as you can accelerate and slow down with > regenerative braking. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > >> On 11/30/2019 8:58 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: >> My experience with a Toyota Prius the other week was that climbing a hill I >> could deplete the battery but coming down would not charge it. >> >> So yes. You’ll get into a deficit. >> >>>> On Nov 30, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
