Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
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Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#2He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff.
Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#3The big question is when he's going to take that trip. They're supposed to have the cross country capacity only at the end of the year. Why announce it now and wait 4 months to actually do it?
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#4He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff. Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.
He can go in 6 days and come back in more days, taking his time then...
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#5He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff. Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.
Making it a bit of a showcase of US sights could broaden the appeal of the crossing, furthering business aims plus motivating people to see their country.
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#6He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff. Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.
That's more than 700km per day. So given the speed limit it means you are spending most of the week in the car. How is this fun?
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#7 > At 1.5 hrs/day, we will only ever need to
> charge when stopping anyway to eat or sightsee,
> never just for charging itself.
You wouldn't get a lot of people buying a normal gasoline powered car if it took 1.5 hrs to fill it up each time, so electric cars have a lot to make up for in other features if you're using them for road trips like this, rather than just commuting where you're charging overnight.
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#8> At 1.5 hrs/day, we will only ever need to > charge when stopping anyway to eat or sightsee, > never just for charging itself. I'm all for the development of electric cars but downplaying having to stop at what's effectively a gas station in the middle of nowhere for 1.5 hours per day is pretty disingenuous. You wouldn't get a lot of people buying a normal gasoline powered car if it took 1.5 hrs to fill it up each t…
That 1.5 hours represents three(3) thirty(30) minute charges. A supercharge gets 200 miles per 30 minute charge.
http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger.
This is the beginning of a new way to fuel cars and the charge time technical hurdle (30 minutes) although already small, will be reduced in future battery technologies.
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#9> At 1.5 hrs/day, we will only ever need to > charge when stopping anyway to eat or sightsee, > never just for charging itself. I'm all for the development of electric cars but downplaying having to stop at what's effectively a gas station in the middle of nowhere for 1.5 hours per day is pretty disingenuous. You wouldn't get a lot of people buying a normal gasoline powered car if it took 1.5 hrs to fill it up each t…
Hopefully more efficiency in battery capacity as well as in solar cells down the road will alleviate some of that with built in solar panel in hood and part of the roof as an option. I'd have to run numbers, but of top of my head says with ideal weather conditions and 1m2 clean hood panel you'd gain about extra mile or km a day which isn't all that great now.
Re: Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S In 6 Day Trip
#10He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff. Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.
That's more than 700km per day. So given the speed limit it means you are spending most of the week in the car. How is this fun?
At interstate speeds (~75mph/120kmph) that's just under 6 hours a day in the car. That leaves a short but reasonably good amount of time to sight see at either end or in the middle of each day.