For that police chase article, the department actually updated and said the car wasn't fully charged the night before from the officer who used it last. He forgot to plug it in so the car never started the shift with a full charge. Not the Teslas fault.
https://electrek.co/2019/09/25/tesla-police-cruiser-runs-out-battery-chase-user-error/ On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 8:43 AM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote: > Matt, > > You said gas is the same no matter what. That's totally false. Mpg gets > worse in every gad vehicle with cold temps and higher loads as well. > > In the cold, I've always lost 4 to 8 mpg in my truck or Honda accord in > the winter. With the snowmobile trailer pulling behind our chevy, we get > about 10mpg compared to our 19mpg without it. > > I'm not sure why you would say gas vehicles are immune to the same things > that affect battery range. > > Anyway, plugging in every night pretty much handles 99% of most peoples > daily miles. I can day our work vans definitely don't drive more than the > 300 to 500 mile range the truck will have. My model 3 is 310 miles with > normal weather and in the winter, about 250 miles which always takes care > of my daily drive. Roadtrips have superchargers all over except in north > Dakota. It's on their to do list. > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 8:22 AM Matt Hoppes < > mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > >> Thanks for bringing that up, Chuck. >> >> This is exactly what scares me about electric vehicles and an electric >> truck: >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/tesla-police-car-chase.html >> >> “We think it started the pursuit with about 50 miles left on the charge, >> but when cars accelerate at speeds such as the situation, going over 110 >> miles per hour, the car charge starts to drain down faster,” Ms. Bosques >> said. >> >> The officer had "50 miles" left on the charge, but as soon as he started >> the chase the range dropped to 8 miles and he had to call off the chase. >> >> Imagine having your truck say you have 100 miles to go, and you start up >> a steep mountain incline to get to a tower site and suddenly get >> stranded because it dropped to 10 miles of range from the load of >> pulling up the hill. >> >> Gas - I always know what I have and in general it's the same no matter >> what. >> Electric - Huge variations depending on temperature and usage. >> >> On 11/30/19 8:56 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: >> > Depends on distance. My car is always charged. So I always have 200 >> miles on the tank. At the end of a full day of driving yes it needs to be >> charged. Local police departments are making Teslas work. Just takes a >> different mindset. No maintenance and a truck good for a half million >> miles with no fuel costs is pretty attractive to me (I charge with solar). >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >
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