Coast to coast in an Electric car towing a trailer.

cause you'd have to drink heavily on a X country rv trip that you could bang out a whopping 125mi/day.

Why would that be stressful? If you have the time to spend, it sounds great to me!

Funny how every one dwells on the negatives, when our mental prowess would be better spent on finding solutions. This is the future.

horton333 wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

John & Angela wrote:
Takes 20 to 30 minutes to charge and they are good for another couple hundred miles.

Where did these figures come from?

The x gets just a little over 200 miles by itself let alone pulling a big sail and anchor behind it. And that is without AC or a heater and all the windows up.

They are getting about half the quoted range, per the Facebook page. The more relevant number is the observed 12 Kilometers per hour charge rate when using a 30 Amp (208 Volt, their number) circuit when there was no super charger. Even letting it go over night that is their limiting factor unless they take a lot of off days (with 3 months coast to coast they have lots of time)
https://www.facebook.com/teslax.canada.5/photos/a.565673016937804.1073741833.487122571459516/565673056937800/?type=3

SO this will work out well for them, hope there's lots of food n drinks in their solar powered camper fridge. Especially DRINKS, cause you'd have to drink heavily on a X country rv trip that you could bang out a whopping 125mi/day......on a good charge night! lol

tdiller wrote:
Only two things run on batteries...
Golf carts and
Toys.

Until a vehicle can go 3-400 miles on a charge and refill/recharge in five minutes and do it again and again all day it'll never sit in my garage.

X2

Cold hard reality that some folk refuse to believe is that electric vehicles are NOT NEW.. Nope, in the 1890s there were MORE electric vehicles on the road than internal combustion or even steam powered..

Cold hard reality, electric vehicles back then only could get about 25-50 miles of driving and took overnight to recharge..

One Pioneer of electric vehicles from the 1890s produced electric vehicles up to 1901, sold his company off and went to work for Locomobile to design their FIRST GASOLINE POWERED VEHICLE.. He saw the main down fall of electric vehicles was the batteries..

1980s saw a couple of electric vehicles on the market, but those also suffered from lack of distance and charging issues.

While battery tech has improved SLIGHTLY over the years it still is very weak compared to gas or diesel for distance, cost to own, maintenance and refueling.

Not to mention, the notion that electric vehicles are a "clean" mode of transportation is BS..

There IS far more "E" waste generated in the building of EV batteries..

Not to mention adding overhead to already weak electric grid..

Then there is the mere fact of the "pollution" of supposed lack of..

There IS NO FREE LUNCH, energy is energy, it is dirty no matter how far away it is generated..

tplife wrote:
I'm not comfortable driving a car that runs on coal, as typically the power grid that fuels electric vehicles do. Now once that 500-year supply of oil runs out, rest assured, I'll be right in line with everyone else using the "new" technology.

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-faq.html#bf-toc-11

lol, wth is the difference? Boycotting places that have power from a coal fired plant on your bucket list? C r a p, can't drive a HC burning car there, can't plug into "dirty" power for your Tesla/Leaf/Volt/Granolamobile, can take the train, plane or a bus, all burning HC's. Heck you can't even wear shoes when you start hoofing it, since they were made or transported using some sort of fuel.

Wow, I did a bit of research and some basic math and found out that the 50 AMP charger for a Tesla draws 40 amps at 240 volts (10 kw). Or to put it another way, 80 percent of the maximum available power at a 50 amp pedestal. Furthermore, a complete charge at that rate would take up to 7 hours. NEC allows 7 50 Amp pedestals per 200 amp service loop. 5 Teslas charging on that loop would take 100 percent of the available power for that entire loop, leaving the 7 RVs completely without power.
A complete charge for a Tesla would cost us around $7.00 (10 cents per kwh). It is our experience that a fully electric coach costs us around $5.00 per day in electrical costs, so the Tesla is nearly a 50 percent greater energy hog than a 45 foot Prevost (provided the Tesla only needed one charge that day. It is entirely possible that with it's 250 mile range a person could run it dry in the morning after charging all night and need another full recharge that same day). No way electric cars can share the current electrical grids in RV parks.

06Fargo wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
So what do they do to charge the batteries along the way?

We got plug in 'lectricity in Canada a couple years back... :D... oh! you meant...

What I really wanna know is who do they think they are not checking in here with the RV dot net weight police re their Tesla Model X which is not a dually...:)

Bam!
Flew right over all the star struck weight cops's heads!

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

John & Angela wrote:
Takes 20 to 30 minutes to charge and they are good for another couple hundred miles.

Where did these figures come from?

The x gets just a little over 200 miles by itself let alone pulling a big sail and anchor behind it. And that is without AC or a heater and all the windows up.

They are getting about half the quoted range, per the Facebook page. The more relevant number is the observed 12 Kilometers per hour charge rate when using a 30 Amp (208 Volt, their number) circuit when there was no super charger. Even letting it go over night that is their limiting factor unless they take a lot of off days (with 3 months coast to coast they have lots of time)
https://www.facebook.com/teslax.canada.5/photos/a.565673016937804.1073741833.487122571459516/565673056937800/?type=3

There's a facebook profile of the owner, and on it he estimated about 220KM towing range.

Cool:
5 kwatts of lithium battery in the trailer. That's still a fair chunk of change I'd hazard a guess. So is 800 watts of solar, which is good for the first horsepower of charge anyway ;-)
Looking up Model X charging time at various currents, just for my info, I noticed the model X is manufacturer rated for towing 5,000 pounds - with a factory hitch no less. I wonder what the range would be with all that weight......