We ordered a standard range battery and black exterior paint. Any other paint color was an additional $1,000. What we received was a standard range plus that had an additional 20 miles of range. In addition we had autopilot and a premium audio system. After a few months Tesla sent a message to me stating that if I wanted to keep standard range plus, autopilot and premium radio then we should pay an additional $4,500. We did not pay the extra Money and at the end of that month all of the "extra" stuff went away. We charge at home and 220 miles of range is just fine. On longer trips to New Orleans we stop at a supercharger in Baton Rouge. On trips to Houston we stop at superchargers in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Channelview, Texas, both on the way to Houston and again on the way back. I have used the navigation tool on the flat screen to plot trips to Wimberley, Texas (just SW of Austin), Springfield, Missouri, Alden, Michigan (north of Traverse City) and Seattle, Washington. With standard range we can use superchargers for all of those trips except perhaps the one to Springfield, Missouri. For the trip to Springfield there is a destination supercharger that we may be able to use. If not then we can use the Plug Share app on my phone to use a slower charger in Branson, Missouri. At one time we did stop at the Acadiana Nature Center (Lafayette, Louisiana) where they have RV sites. We could not charge at home because the electricity was out at home. I asked the guy who was working at the Nature Center if we could rent s 50 circuit to recharge our battery powered electric car. He had never heard about anyone doing that, but sent to a 50 outlet and did not charge us anything. We are quite satisfied with our 220 mile range battery. Because the battery pack actually has a range of 240 miles, but is software limited we never have charged it to 100%. Bob Keeland & Joy Young
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 3:39 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 21 Jul 2020 at 15:11, Bobby Keeland via EV wrote: > > > We bought our Tesla Model 3 for $35,000. It was ordered on March 30, > 2016 and > > received on May, 2019. > > Interesting! That's a much more reasonable price, and a decent value for > anyone who's OK with a mid-size sedan. > > What's your range, if you don't mine me asking? > > Looking again, I see that Edmunds have the "mid range" model as the $44k > one. So presumably there's a "short range" model too that they don't list. > > But it also says that the 44k one is discontinued! So according to that > page only the "long range AWD" and "performance AWD" models at $47,990 and > $56,990 respectively are still available. To me that seems like a a > mightly > long haul from an affordable car. > > https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-3/2019/features-specs/ > > Something strange is going on here ... > > I clicked on "See Model 3 inventory" and saw only used ones. The cheapest > is a 2019 "standard range plus" (whatever that means) with 24k+ miles. > They're asking $34,980! Ehhh, no thanks. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in > common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts. They > alter the facts to fit their views. This can be uncomfortable > if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering. > > -- Doctor Who, "The Face of Evil" > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200721/b27d55e0/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
