harley hitchiker wrote:
other data about the tesla would be ,what was average cost per kilowatt hr. How many hours were spent charging ,and how far could you go on a average charge.
Looks like a great trip ,beautiful scenery,and apparently trouble free travel
I’ll have to figure out the average kilowatt hour cost but suspect it is around 40 ish cents. Supercharging isn’t cheap but there was also some campground and driveway charging which skews it.
Time charging varied as most days we either only charged once for 20 to 40 minutes or none as it may have been a short day on the road and we charged at destination overnight. We had eight days of what I would call dead heading. 4 there and 4 back. This was a couple prairie provinces and northern Ontario. We didn’t tour those areas as we had seen a lot of them during our military careers. On those four days we would knock off 500 to 600 kilometres per day. Those days we would charge 3 times during the day for 20 to 40 minutes and then usually at night at destination. For us we are used to stopping every couple hours anyway so really not a big change.
We never really had the chance to test out the max range as the superchargers are typically spaced closer than that. But I’ll hazard a guess at 220 kilometres. . We travel at max 90 kmh. Pretty much the speed limit over most of northern Ontario. Many times we were at 85 kmh though because of road conditions etc. The speed limits in the prairies is faster but we keep it in the right lane 90 kmh. We have been towing a long time and know the affects wind gusts can have on single axle short wheel base units. But overall it a very well behaved little combo.
Hope that helps.
