No, if traffic is slow or stop and go, you can double your range. If things
get tight I drive 30 mph and go twice as far. Now, if you are blowing the
heater at max or the AC at max it would change things. I got stopped in a 2
hour traffic jam in the middle of winter and started to wonder if I was going
to have to kill the heater at one point but then things started to move.
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:34 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
Ok, this might be a stupid question, but if you get stuck in Traffic, that uses
almost no battery then, right? Other than the stop and go. Would that kill it
quicker? Example, there is a 30 mile drive, but through construction. Traffic
either flows nicely, or it takes an extra 20 min in stop and go traffic. Would
you trust it?
On 8/10/2015 3:23 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I don’t use the projected range meter at all. I use the battery % meter when
I am worried. It seems to be spot on. But after a while, you just use a trip
odometer. When 30 miles have burned off you know you have to turn around or
charge at the far end.
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:21 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
How accurate is the battery meter? Is it like my phone in the cold where as
soon as I go to use it, it goes from Full charge to empty. Does it give you a
range at projected speed, or just a %?
On 8/10/2015 3:17 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I use it year around. When it gets down to zero outside, the range is 60
miles or less.
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:14 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
Do I remember that you don't use your at all in the winter? How does it do
in the cold with the heater running? 40-50 or less?
On 8/10/2015 3:09 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
They advertise 90 or 100 or some such number. But if you go much over 60
miles the anxiety starts to mount. I have done 70 I think once. It will
probably do 75. It does 60-65 all day long at freeway speeds with HVAC running
full bore.
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:05 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
What are you getting now? The 2017 should get 120 from a couple of
articles.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
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Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
Do we know yet what the 2017 leaf range is supposed to be? My leaf
lease is up and I am probably going to re-up for another year to get the bigger
battery.
-----Original Message----- From: Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 1:59 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
He is planning on lower battery costs with the new plant or before.
Even the Leaf has gotten profitable since it's conception for that reason which
is why they can put a 20% bigger battery pack in for the same amount of money.
Rory
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:50 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
He can subsidize it with his space transport business.
-----Original Message----- From: Travis Johnson
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 1:36 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Tesla
Hi,
The news today about Tesla is they lose $4,000 per car they sell...
makes you wonder how much longer that can continue? They are also having
to support all their Super charging stations across the country (at no
additional cost for customers), etc.
It's a great concept, and a great first generation electric car, but it
can't continue like this forever...
Travis
