[Boomer]

You could have saved some time and posted it takes an hour per 52 miles of charge so basically it needs to charge overnight to get that 315 miles then needs another 6 hours to do it again.

[ctdonath2]

I had an EV. Charging it overnight was the norm. Rarely needed more than 100 miles range per day (have a gas SUV for that).

You can also plug the Tesla (and some other EVs) into a “supercharger” that will get you up to 80% “full” in about 20 minutes. They’re very expensive, so you won’t have one at home - but good chance it will be available for long freeway-based trips.

[stylin19a]

thanks.
I always wondered who was Free Republic’s vice president in charge of content presentation.

[TexasGator]

“You could have saved some time and posted it takes an hour per 52 miles of charge so basically it needs to charge overnight to get that 315 miles then needs another 6 hours to do it again.”

You could have save some posting space by googling how long the Tesla superchargers take.

They can do ‘52’ miles in about 6 minutes and get 90% in about an hour. Additionally, they are free to Tesla owners.

[TexasGator]

“so basically it needs to charge overnight to get that 315 miles then needs another 6 hours to do it again.”

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In order to allow quick charging of Model S and Model X electric vehicle battery packs on longer journeys, in 2012 Tesla Motors began building a network of 480-volt fast-charging Supercharger stations. As of 20 May 2016, there were 624 stations globally, with 3,708 chargers.[1] The Supercharger is a proprietary direct current (DC) technology that provides up to[clarification needed] 120 kW of power per car, depending on location, giving the 90 kWh Model S an additional 170 miles (270 km) of range in about 30 minutes charge and a full charge in around 75 minutes.[2] A software update provided in 2015 to all Tesla cars uses demand information from each Supercharger station to plan the fastest route, if charging will be necessary to reach the destination.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_station

[TexasGator]

“so basically it needs to charge overnight to get that 315 miles then needs another 6 hours to do it again.”

Another interesting tidbit:

In December 2014 the company announced a revision to their much-delayed[13][30] plans. A single battery-swap station is to open in California in late-December, where only invited Model S owners may do battery swaps by appointment, as part of a pilot program to assess technical and economic aspects of the service. Demand for the priced service—which is now expected to take three minutes (instead of the 90-second time previously demonstrated)—will be used to determine whether the company will commercialize battery swapping stations more generally.[31] The originally announced plan in the June 2013 announcement explicitly indicated that the company would eventually upgrade all existing Tesla supercharger stations to become Tesla stations, which would offer the battery-pack swap for the Model S in addition to the fast recharge capability that each facility initially opened with.[29]

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