How much did you pay for the fuel to go 450 miles? It’s 3.43 a gallon here today. At 28 mpg 450 miles is 16 gallons and $55 in fuel costs.
A model 3 Tesla will go 4 miles on the hwy at 80mph with the A.C.on those are numbers I have seen myself from Houston to New Orleans. 450 miles is 112 kWh worth of power. At Texas retail power rates that’s $10.12 in electricity FIVE TIMES cheaper.
Even at supercharger rates of 35cents per kWh for Tesla on Tesla network it’s only 39.2 bucks. Better would be to rent a Toyota Camry hybrid for the weekend. It would return 55 mpg on the hwy double the mpg of my turbo sedan halving the fuel cost to near the Tesla price point but allowing for 5 min refuel not 30 mins. Since most people drive 400+ miles a couple of times per year the rental make more sense when your cost per mile is five times cheaper to fill up at home via retail power over night.
Too complicated. I’m going on a one day roadtrip and it’s going to be a lot of fun and the only decisions are where to stop for breakfast and where to have lunch. And the cost really doesn’t matter to me. This is about family and fun.