Yah. Teslas are not like that. Going down a mountain generates power.
Slowing down (sort of braking) generates power. In aggressive throttle
mode, you hardly have to touch the brake as you can accelerate and slow
down with regenerative braking.
bp
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On 11/30/2019 8:58 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
My experience with a Toyota Prius the other week was that climbing a hill I
could deplete the battery but coming down would not charge it.
So yes. You’ll get into a deficit.
On Nov 30, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote:
On 11/30/19 5:56 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).
How much do you lose climbing elevation? Let's say sea level up to 7000' 180
miles uphill (San Fransisco to Donner Pass). It's a minimal grade for the first
100 miles then the last 80 is nothing but uphill. Back when Tesla was first
doing their supercharger network thing they put ones in Roseville (basically
the bottom of the hill) and more in Truckee (just past the summit) so the
assumption was that the climb is hard and you would charge before going up the
hill and charge again after the climb. Even just to go to Lake Tahoe requires
crossing an 8000' summit (Reno is around 4200').
I'd like to get my wife an electric car, but it seems like normal mountain driving would
eat the battery quickly and then it never gets used except for flat driving to and from
her job or shopping. I'll have 16.3kW DC of solar panels by the end of February and the
way I see it is free "fuel" for the car. I don't care about saving the planet
as much as I am interested in technology.
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