Originally Posted By: Cujet
Originally Posted By: L_Sludger
I have an i3. Would you believe that I took an 1800-mile round trip road trip with it?
(I wouldn't recommend doing that)
I can't wait for my lease to end. Neat car but I'd rather not deal with the payments. Oh, and it's been very unreliable.
I'd love to hear about how you managed that trip. That can't be an easy thing in such a car. I drive and fly all over the place. Often well over 1000 miles in each direction.
I'd love an EV, and, "I think" one with reasonable range (say 150 miles) coupled with an emergency engine for, you guessed it, emergencies... would work for my uses. It would use electrical power 100% of the time, but put me at no risk of being stranded.
It seems that at this point, electro-chemical energy storage is not likely to be able to deliver 600 mile highway range, as might be used in a day of highway driving.
As much as I love the Tesla Model S, my friends P-85 left him stranded. He had a long day trip on the Florida back roads, which are quite high speed roads. He was, for what ever reason, unable to charge the car while at a business meeting. He then set off on the trip home and made 2/3 of the way back. Ending up just South East of Okechobee, in the middle of nowhere. Granted, it was a test of ultimate range, and he finds the entire story quite funny. But he did end up on the back of a flatbed.
The trip involved lots of highway shoulder refueling from a gas can. I caught the blue lights in Connecticut during one of the refueling sessions but the trooper was just checking to see if I was okay while I refueled. He also remarked on the two fuel filler doors on the car. The i3 has its gas filler flap at the front right fender and the EV charge flap on the rear quarter panel.
Originally Posted By: L_Sludger
I have an i3. Would you believe that I took an 1800-mile round trip road trip with it?
(I wouldn't recommend doing that)
I can't wait for my lease to end. Neat car but I'd rather not deal with the payments. Oh, and it's been very unreliable.
I'd love to hear about how you managed that trip. That can't be an easy thing in such a car. I drive and fly all over the place. Often well over 1000 miles in each direction.
I'd love an EV, and, "I think" one with reasonable range (say 150 miles) coupled with an emergency engine for, you guessed it, emergencies... would work for my uses. It would use electrical power 100% of the time, but put me at no risk of being stranded.
It seems that at this point, electro-chemical energy storage is not likely to be able to deliver 600 mile highway range, as might be used in a day of highway driving.
As much as I love the Tesla Model S, my friends P-85 left him stranded. He had a long day trip on the Florida back roads, which are quite high speed roads. He was, for what ever reason, unable to charge the car while at a business meeting. He then set off on the trip home and made 2/3 of the way back. Ending up just South East of Okechobee, in the middle of nowhere. Granted, it was a test of ultimate range, and he finds the entire story quite funny. But he did end up on the back of a flatbed.
The trip involved lots of highway shoulder refueling from a gas can. I caught the blue lights in Connecticut during one of the refueling sessions but the trooper was just checking to see if I was okay while I refueled. He also remarked on the two fuel filler doors on the car. The i3 has its gas filler flap at the front right fender and the EV charge flap on the rear quarter panel.
