But its free, right?
Might as well be a rest stop, since ‘fast charging’ takes an hour and a half.
Still can’t figure the wisdom of doing all this stuff when their first consideration should be having enough(reliable) electric power for justifying all the electric vehicles they say we will have. Without adequate power generating supplies we are screwed.
A Model 3 can get 75 miles of charge in 5 minutes. It takes about 37 minutes to go from 5% to 90%. EPA estimated total range of 353 miles on a charge.
It’s not “an hour and a half”.
But its free, right?
The guy in the video linked below decided to see if he could drive 1000 miles in a day in a Tesla Model 3. He averaged 24 minutes per charging stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxA8Y69R6uM
He says he traveled 973 miles in 16.5 hours. (He stopped at his hotel instead of finishing the 1,000 miles.) That was divided into 14 hours 6 minutes of actual driving and 2 hours 24 minutes of charging. He kept the battery between 20% and 80% charged. He made six stops to charge, averaging 24 minutes each.
He says the actual practical range of the car for non-urban driving is about 250 miles, not 310 as claimed.
Total cost of electricity for the trip: $88.72.