The Tesla route planner is designed for an average joe. It gives you plenty of buffer room and it routes you to chargers that are less busy even if they're slower.
Would love to see a race with 3 Teslas, 1 following exactly what the Tesla nav says to do, another following A Better Route Planner, and a third calculating each stop independently just charging enough to hop chargers as quickly as possible.
Cool idea! They should try this. I’m curious what discharging to 5% on almost all trip legs and stopping charging at 50% every time possible would do, also seeking out 250 kW chargers as frequently as possible. Would also be cool if all three were vehicles were the RWD Model 3 Long Range models for max range in a Tesla. Or, switch to Model Y Long Range to have the Tesla model that most families would pick for a road trip.
Basic Tesla tip: hold the tesla plug near your charge port and press the button on the plug and it will open the chargeport door. No need push on charge port door to open it.
I did a road trip from Austin to Orlando (round trip) about 3 weeks ago and in 2,715mi I spent 818kWh, 301 Wh/mi. That was me driving at or above 5-10 the speed limit. I charged pretty much at the same places you showed and had a really smooth experience exactly like you showed. Interesting to see how speed affects consumption. Great job guys!
Finally we get a full version of tommy singing 10:12. In his glorious voice. Thanks bud also your face reactions were hilarious this was the best road trip ever lol 😂 living your best life.
I still want to see this done vs a new Prius.. how much faster and more efficient will the hybrid do.. and add in cost. Roman can bring his Raptor R too.. lol
Faster, sure. But most people don't do cannonball runs because going without breaks and bathroom breaks is insane. More efficient?? 😂 Not even close. Model 3 gets over 130 MPGe.
Thank you guys! Not bad. 46-ish hours cost to coast is more than acceptable. In the real life people do this with 2-3 nights in motels so it would be nice to have more chargers there available to their guests. This will make EV road trips even more convenient.
@@HAHA.GoodMeme "literally twice as slow as ICE." That can't be true. They said 19 stops, 30 minutes each that's 10 hours longer. "only if you have a life with no value." Well if you want to get there fast, by far the FASTEST way to go coast to coast is a 737. It's only a five or six hour ride. You couldn't pay me to do it over land. Even a maglev train craps out at around 375 mph, which would take 7.5 hours, over 40% longer. This is putting aside future developments such as the Boom Supersonic jet, which will go Mach 1.7 over water and Mach 0.96 over land. The 737 craps out at Mach 0.79. So the Boom Supersonic would cut the coast to coast time down to 3.5 hours. Then you have true supersonic over land, such as the Exosonic jet. They have a contract to make a supersonic Air Force One. They have a special aircraft shape that makes it so they can break the sound barrier with a barely audible boom that doesn't break any windows. So they could do it in 2.5 hours. And in the future you'll have point to point suborbital rockets, from Blue Origin and SpaceX, that can take off from the Mojave Air and Space Port and land in the ocean off the east coast about 10 minutes later. So yeah.....while electric adds a little bit to driving across country, it's a huge waste of time to do that, anyway. Driving is the slowest, stupidest way to cross the country.
Just ran an ABRP (A Better Route Planner) simulation for your vehicle and it estimates 42h:43m. Add in your 2 hour delay and it's pretty close. Some room for improvement though. If you were in a Long Range with 18" wheels that drops to 41h:29m.
I know this is TFLEV, but I'd love to see some of the TFL crew do the D to D in a non EV. A typical midsize SUV or sedan, maybe a mainstream hybrid. I think it'd be nice to compare the cost and time of the EV trips to an ICE run.
Both the TM3 & Ionic 5 technically can make it in slightly over 41 hours, acording to A Better Route planner. So there will be plenty of room for additional teams to try for better times. It's mostly up to the best charging times along the route. Careful filtering of slow chargers using Plugshare can help plan the best stops and improve total race times.
This was a pretty stellar video guys. Although I'm a die-hard internal combustion motor kind of a guy, I really did enjoy this video. Thank you for posting this.
Buccee’s squeegees are usually on the perimeter of the parking lot somewhere. Katy, TX location probably had them. Usually with the really long handle like a pit crew would use so that you can stand on only one side of your vehicle & clean the entire windshield.
Better to use ABRP as a more aggressive rapid pace planner. It can be tuned to favor shorter charge sessions in the bottom of the pack, say below 60% for sure. Tesla’s current built in route planner has no tunability for these factors. ABRP seems to favor V3 sites with more aggressiveness than the Tesla algorithms.
Great trip, guys. I think to beat your time, I can see two strategies. 1) Leave Anaheim at a different time to day, to arrive in San Antonio and Houston overnight, to avoid traffic. 2) Determine the true optimal speed to drive at. I suspect going a bit slower would pay back in reduced charging time. If I lived in the States, and had a Tesla, I’d give it a go.
Because of how fast the charging it's actually better to drive faster and charge more than it is to drive slower and attempt to charge less and deeper into the battery. There a reason if you look on ABRP they very rarely have you charging past 65/70% and going lower into the battery around 5/10%
LOL, you know, it says Old Towne Orange on the sign, There happens to be an Old Town amusement and shopping center in Kissimmee (Ki-sim-me), near Orlando.
I definitely think you guys could be more efficient instead of sitting at chargers for 10+ minutes you can just charge up until you have about 5-8% buffer. Also turning the ac down or off gets you more range and checking other types of chargers and really running that battery down because you get better speeds at low states of charge.
It's not worth turning off the A/C, it's incredibly efficient in a Tesla (or any EV for that matter) and only draws a few hundred watts at best in Auto mode. Looks like they used Auto and kept it around 70, you'd get maybe another mile or two, if that, by turning it off.
I'm currently living in El Paso. I've done the LA to El Paso and vice versa run many times on most of the gas cars I've owned. I only stop for gas and maybe a bag of chips and a soda or the occasional 10/100 on the side of the road lol. It only takes me about 11 to 12 hours. On a full 9 gallon tank of gas in my 2013 Chevy Spark coming from LA I can make it to the outskirts of Phoenix. 16 hours in a Tesla to get to El Paso seems like a really gr8 time. With a thousand dollar deposit I ordered a 2023 Bolt EV in December and as of right now there's no guarantee that GM will build it. Since your Tesla did it in 16, minus the hour you were stuck 15, I'm thinking it would take the Bolt about 18 hours. I can live with that lol. I noticed the Artcraft exit on your map. My father lives five minutes from that exit and I work about 2 minutes from that exit. Welcome to El Paso for the few minutes you were here lol. Excellent video as usual. 🚙 🇺🇸 🔌
I live in El Paso and have made the drive from El Paso to Anaheim a few times. My best time has been just under 14 hours going a little above the speed limit.
Great Job Guys!! That's a tough trip no matter what you're driving. Thanks for doing all this for us. A good question is why are the Tesla chargers so much more reliable than the others? Thanks guys
For one, the superchargers don't bother with pay screens, credit card swipers, tap n go readers, etc. You simply plug in, the car identifies itself to the Tesla network, and the charging starts. A better question might be why are the other DC fast charging networks so unreliable and stay down for MONTHS at a time? Ford, GM and Rivian have already figured it out.
In a word: absolutely. I just did a big road trip from east coast, across empty land in Canada, to MN. Upshot: The Tesla public charging system is brilliant and flawless.
Because Tesla monitors and maintains them. They knew from the beginning that a reliable charging network was the key to large scale adoption, so they invested in the maintenance and upkeep.
Yep. Tesla chargers do occasionally go down inop, but when they do, Tesla seems to have them back running within a day or so. Somehow EA managed to find a way to install hardware that just doesn't work. That includes the CC readers, which somehow work well literally everywhere else in society except when trying to pay for electric.
16:05 the good news is that electric cars don't have to "idle", so you're not losing a significant amount of energy sitting there with the AC on. 🙂 If you're stuck in heat or cold, it's much better to be stuck in an EV, because you know that when it comes time to go again, you will able to do so. 🙂
Great video guys! I would like to see y’all do this in a comparable ICE vehicle (set the standard so to speak). Just doing some quick math, my accord would have done this trip $17 cheaper if I got 35mpg and avg. fuel is $3.50 a gal. I know charging at home is much cheaper, but hate seeing that fast charging when you have to is more expensive than a gas car would be.
Same with my Lexus Es350..that thing will cruise all day long at 80mph and get low 30mpg. You save zero by doing this in an EV. Just shows that EVs have a range limit economically...say 200 miles of your home or free chargers.
@@zachlafond2652 I suppose technically you save on oil changes/fluid changes with an EV. But yeah superchargers are around the price of gas for a ~35mpg vehicle. Charging at home or work is really where you save money.
If Tommy wanted good barbecue, in Junction Texas there is a good barbecue restaurant on the opposite side of the lot the superchargers are on. With Houston, when I used to work in the oilfield I found that the quickest way through town was to take the toll road around town. It used to be that the tellers at Industry bank in Columbus & Prosperity bank in Winnie knew me by sight and got the roll of quarters ready for me when they saw me walk in the door.
I’d like to see a ICE comparison too. Maybe next time have one of the guys take the Cummins and trailer and leave at the same time, meet you there and tow you home.
Doing some quick math you paid 277 for 2501 miles. Taking an average car that gets 25mph highway that would have taken 100 gals of gas. 100 gals times an average of 3.80 a gal. Or $380 that's a interesting savings
Great video. Good to know that it's such a good road tripping car. Though, $277 is more than I expected for the charging cost. I figured electricity would be cheaper than gas, but I guess when you're using public chargers, it's not. Good to know.
@@RichardinNC1 I don't know where you are getting your math from, but that's not right. In your example, an ICE car getting 30 mpg, traveling 2501 miles, and gas being $3.50,... it would be more expensive at $291.78 total. Now 32 mpg? That would rival the Tesla at $273.55. Negligible? Maybe,.. but Tesla's are awesome for roadtriping due to the safety features, autopiolot, sound system, and comfort.
I thought of that too, but as a rule chargers are unattended, that would be difficult to maintain. Besides out of the last 10 times Ive looked for squeegees at gas stations (not Buc-ees never seen one), probably only 1 actually had them AND had some (useful) liquid in the bucket AND had paper towels.
@@natehill8069 There are an awful lot of things that we take at least a bit for granted at the tens of thousands of gas stations (where the average stop is
You should start something like the "Iron Butt Assocation" has for motorcycles. There are rules that a motorcycle rider can do on a road trip for 1,000 miles in 24 hours or whatever. They are required to document their trip with gas receipts etc. Do the same sort of thing for "D to D" in an EV.
I always stop at Ehrenberg instead of Quartzite because I'm usually that far along before the Burger King is open in Quartzite. If Burger King isn't open, no bathroom close by.
The built-in route planner seems to be a bit too conservative, especially given how fast teslas charge down low. I wish you could make it more "risky" so to say and set a lower arrival SoC, especially on a competition style run.
Given how far Tesla have come in just over a 10 years, these things will be seriously competitive in the near future, especially with Tesla being made the North American standard charger
In Denmark we got stuck on a highway at an accident for 4 hours. We where heading to a conference in Aarhus. We opted for the fast highway/bridge route instead of the slow direct Aarhus car ferry. A truck of bacon futures flipped over on the The Great Belt bridge island. They had hunt down the escaping bacon futures before they opened up the highway. It made for a laugh at the conference.
So 45 hours 39 minutes and 8 seconds. Tommy is still timid about backing a Model 3 up to things. (so much so that he needs a spotter to back up to the chargers. lol) Spirits were apparently better with this team than the previous trip team. Traffic delay could've been an issue had it happened in a tight % situation for an EV. As in, it could have ended the trip on the side of the road with no charging help. (as opposed to a gas can fill up) The ionic 5 was cheaper to charge over the trip. But the Tesla network is faster, but you pay more for it. Does not balance out. It is like going from 87 octane to 92. 92 will burn better and get you better mpg(in theory) but you pay more. So it does not balance out. lol
The delay made me think, what is your plan if you had gotten a flat tire? I know M3P does not have a spare tire? It would suck if you were like 2hrs from record and got a flat tire. For longer trips I trow one of my extra winter tires in the trunk and my small Jack. In 5 years it saved my ass one time at 5am during the winter when I got a flat.
I keep a dewalt air compressor in my trunk. As long as it's not a complete blowout, I can fill it up, drive a little ways and repeat until I get to a tire shop. I do have a spare, but it takes so much space. I really wish they could have made the under-trunk area a bit bigger. My last 1000+ mile trip I decided to get new tires a little early. I probably had 5-10k miles left on the OEMs, but felt safer with fresh tires and left the spare at home.
You should guys deduct stand still traffic jams since it is something that slows you down almost 2h and its not realted with the car or charging network performance.
Great job, what would have happened if you guys were in a M3LR, (353 miles), I think your max range was 315, or if you figured out some way to put on 18” s …hahaha peace MHK
It was quite a bit more efficient than the Ioniq 5...3.36 miles/Kwh is good, especially for a dual-motor vehicle. In the end I think the efficiency trumped the charging advantage of the Ioniq's 800V architecture.
The Tesla route planner is designed for an average joe. It gives you plenty of buffer room and it routes you to chargers that are less busy even if they're slower.
Next time: Nathan's Nissan Leaf
They will finish in a towtruck
😂
@@EvilJoshua umm no they won't; That is not a korean car. fooool
@@allentoyokawa9068 the problem is not the car is the lack of chamadeo chargers
with Mr. Truck, too! 🤠
Would love to see a race with 3 Teslas, 1 following exactly what the Tesla nav says to do, another following A Better Route Planner, and a third calculating each stop independently just charging enough to hop chargers as quickly as possible.
Cool idea! They should try this. I’m curious what discharging to 5% on almost all trip legs and stopping charging at 50% every time possible would do, also seeking out 250 kW chargers as frequently as possible.
Would also be cool if all three were vehicles were the RWD Model 3 Long Range models for max range in a Tesla. Or, switch to Model Y Long Range to have the Tesla model that most families would pick for a road trip.
Basic Tesla tip: hold the tesla plug near your charge port and press the button on the plug and it will open the chargeport door. No need push on charge port door to open it.
Exactly.
This is also why all those Flipper Zeros can open the charger port
Oh wow what a difference that makes! (sarcasm)
@@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHell it actually does, if you ever owned a Tesla, you'd understand.
@officialyasir exactly, if you don't you'd never understand that's why you get those ridiculous comments. ☝️🙄
I did a road trip from Austin to Orlando (round trip) about 3 weeks ago and in 2,715mi I spent 818kWh, 301 Wh/mi. That was me driving at or above 5-10 the speed limit. I charged pretty much at the same places you showed and had a really smooth experience exactly like you showed. Interesting to see how speed affects consumption. Great job guys!
Finally we get a full version of tommy singing 10:12. In his glorious voice. Thanks bud also your face reactions were hilarious this was the best road trip ever lol 😂 living your best life.
Love Andre and Tommy! You guys doing these trips are so cool! And gives me something to watch over the course of a couple days! Great job!
Yes a lot better than Roman’s complaining.
Awesome, guys! 2,500 miles, and one third of that in Texas!
As the saying here goes...
"The sun has riz,
the sun has set.
But here we is
in Texas yet!
I still want to see this done vs a new Prius.. how much faster and more efficient will the hybrid do.. and add in cost. Roman can bring his Raptor R too.. lol
Faster, sure. But most people don't do cannonball runs because going without breaks and bathroom breaks is insane. More efficient?? 😂 Not even close. Model 3 gets over 130 MPGe.
Thank you guys! Not bad. 46-ish hours cost to coast is more than acceptable. In the real life people do this with 2-3 nights in motels so it would be nice to have more chargers there available to their guests. This will make EV road trips even more convenient.
literally twice as slow as ICE. "not bad" only if you have a life with no value.
@@HAHA.GoodMeme
"literally twice as slow as ICE."
That can't be true. They said 19 stops, 30 minutes each that's 10 hours longer.
"only if you have a life with no value."
Well if you want to get there fast, by far the FASTEST way to go coast to coast is a 737. It's only a five or six hour ride. You couldn't pay me to do it over land. Even a maglev train craps out at around 375 mph, which would take 7.5 hours, over 40% longer.
This is putting aside future developments such as the Boom Supersonic jet, which will go Mach 1.7 over water and Mach 0.96 over land. The 737 craps out at Mach 0.79. So the Boom Supersonic would cut the coast to coast time down to 3.5 hours.
Then you have true supersonic over land, such as the Exosonic jet. They have a contract to make a supersonic Air Force One. They have a special aircraft shape that makes it so they can break the sound barrier with a barely audible boom that doesn't break any windows. So they could do it in 2.5 hours.
And in the future you'll have point to point suborbital rockets, from Blue Origin and SpaceX, that can take off from the Mojave Air and Space Port and land in the ocean off the east coast about 10 minutes later.
So yeah.....while electric adds a little bit to driving across country, it's a huge waste of time to do that, anyway. Driving is the slowest, stupidest way to cross the country.
Traffic, and getting lost, makes the most difference in these trips. Getting lost in Houston the first time certainly didn’t help them.
I actually enjoyed Tommy’s comments! Keep ‘em coming makes me laugh.
Just ran an ABRP (A Better Route Planner) simulation for your vehicle and it estimates 42h:43m. Add in your 2 hour delay and it's pretty close. Some room for improvement though. If you were in a Long Range with 18" wheels that drops to 41h:29m.
I know this is TFLEV, but I'd love to see some of the TFL crew do the D to D in a non EV. A typical midsize SUV or sedan, maybe a mainstream hybrid. I think it'd be nice to compare the cost and time of the EV trips to an ICE run.
Loved the show Tommy and Andre 👏👏👏...I got to see Tommy in a onesie😁 LOL......Have a beautiful day Everyone ✌️
Great video. Thanks TFL crew for letting us ride along!
At 10:00, as we said in 1950s South AL, "the first hen that cackled", Andre.
Both the TM3 & Ionic 5 technically can make it in slightly over 41 hours, acording to A Better Route planner. So there will be plenty of room for additional teams to try for better times. It's mostly up to the best charging times along the route. Careful filtering of slow chargers using Plugshare can help plan the best stops and improve total race times.
Ionic 5 is junk
@@allentoyokawa9068Wow, what a deep analysis. Great insightful comment.
Pretty much everything from Bucee's that's a snack/treat with their logo on it, beaver nuggets, leads to acid reflux and digestive probs later.
This was a pretty stellar video guys. Although I'm a die-hard internal combustion motor kind of a guy, I really did enjoy this video. Thank you for posting this.
turn around and go home with the tail between their legs muhahahahahaha
@7:35 "we didn't have to swing a cat over our head" 🤣
Buccee’s squeegees are usually on the perimeter of the parking lot somewhere. Katy, TX location probably had them. Usually with the really long handle like a pit crew would use so that you can stand on only one side of your vehicle & clean the entire windshield.
Now do the same run using A Better Route Planer to plan your charging stops. And tell it to avoid the 150 chargers.
I'd be curious what your total charge cost was vs what you would have paid vs a similar size ICE sedan.
You were in the Wallace Tunnel under the Mobile River.
Tommy and Andre content is purely unmatched
Loved the video! Super entertaining, love the road trip style videos, would love to see y’all do more in depth camping videos to go along.
Love these TFL challenges
Seeing Tommy in that Buc-ee's onsie made struggling through this video worth it....PRICELESS!!
Better to use ABRP as a more aggressive rapid pace planner. It can be tuned to favor shorter charge sessions in the bottom of the pack, say below 60% for sure. Tesla’s current built in route planner has no tunability for these factors. ABRP seems to favor V3 sites with more aggressiveness than the Tesla algorithms.
I imagine as trucks start using these a pull through setup will need to be setup for towing.
Great trip, guys. I think to beat your time, I can see two strategies. 1) Leave Anaheim at a different time to day, to arrive in San Antonio and Houston overnight, to avoid traffic. 2) Determine the true optimal speed to drive at. I suspect going a bit slower would pay back in reduced charging time. If I lived in the States, and had a Tesla, I’d give it a go.
Because of how fast the charging it's actually better to drive faster and charge more than it is to drive slower and attempt to charge less and deeper into the battery. There a reason if you look on ABRP they very rarely have you charging past 65/70% and going lower into the battery around 5/10%
@@67GreenBay then why every time I see any EV they’re always going old Prius slow
Use the Bjørn method.
V3 chargers. Charge 10%- 65%
why are you pushing that charge port? use the button on the charge handle to open the port 😀
When you were listing states about 38:00 I believe you forgot Mississippi.
When did you pass by casa grande az??? I live in this town it's great to see you folks pass by.
LOL, you know, it says Old Towne Orange on the sign, There happens to be an Old Town amusement and shopping center in Kissimmee (Ki-sim-me), near Orlando.
I definitely think you guys could be more efficient instead of sitting at chargers for 10+ minutes you can just charge up until you have about 5-8% buffer. Also turning the ac down or off gets you more range and checking other types of chargers and really running that battery down because you get better speeds at low states of charge.
It's not worth turning off the A/C, it's incredibly efficient in a Tesla (or any EV for that matter) and only draws a few hundred watts at best in Auto mode. Looks like they used Auto and kept it around 70, you'd get maybe another mile or two, if that, by turning it off.
😂 Love the choice of music takes me right back to my childhood
Nice work. I love the Model 3. Good choice on the Cinnabon bites. Great choice of music too lol.
Breaking boundaries in the EV world!
Great video, based on Google maps, charging only added around 9 or 10 hours to your trip. Adjusting for time save from speeding.
The windshield squeegee thing is real. I bought a spritz bottle and a squeegee to keep in my Model X.
Worrying about towing - ... are the trailers welded to the hitch? There's been several times I've had to drop a trailer for various reasons..
Add Andre and Tommy to my list of people who would be fun to road trip with. Fun video.
I'm currently living in El Paso. I've done the LA to El Paso and vice versa run many times on most of the gas cars I've owned. I only stop for gas and maybe a bag of chips and a soda or the occasional 10/100 on the side of the road lol. It only takes me about 11 to 12 hours. On a full 9 gallon tank of gas in my 2013 Chevy Spark coming from LA I can make it to the outskirts of Phoenix. 16 hours in a Tesla to get to El Paso seems like a really gr8 time. With a thousand dollar deposit I ordered a 2023 Bolt EV in December and as of right now there's no guarantee that GM will build it. Since your Tesla did it in 16, minus the hour you were stuck 15, I'm thinking it would take the Bolt about 18 hours. I can live with that lol. I noticed the Artcraft exit on your map. My father lives five minutes from that exit and I work about 2 minutes from that exit. Welcome to El Paso for the few minutes you were here lol. Excellent video as usual. 🚙 🇺🇸 🔌
I live in El Paso and have made the drive from El Paso to Anaheim a few times. My best time has been just under 14 hours going a little above the speed limit.
Good thing you avoided trip during winter months through Texas. Imagine stuck in Texas, No Power for days.
Great Job Guys!! That's a tough trip no matter what you're driving. Thanks for doing all this for us. A good question is why are the Tesla chargers so much more reliable than the others? Thanks guys
For one, the superchargers don't bother with pay screens, credit card swipers, tap n go readers, etc. You simply plug in, the car identifies itself to the Tesla network, and the charging starts. A better question might be why are the other DC fast charging networks so unreliable and stay down for MONTHS at a time? Ford, GM and Rivian have already figured it out.
In a word: absolutely. I just did a big road trip from east coast, across empty land in Canada, to MN. Upshot: The Tesla public charging system is brilliant and flawless.
@@mowcowbell your more specific question is really the one I meant to ask.
Because Tesla monitors and maintains them. They knew from the beginning that a reliable charging network was the key to large scale adoption, so they invested in the maintenance and upkeep.
Yep. Tesla chargers do occasionally go down inop, but when they do, Tesla seems to have them back running within a day or so.
Somehow EA managed to find a way to install hardware that just doesn't work. That includes the CC readers, which somehow work well literally everywhere else in society except when trying to pay for electric.
16:05 the good news is that electric cars don't have to "idle", so you're not losing a significant amount of energy sitting there with the AC on. 🙂 If you're stuck in heat or cold, it's much better to be stuck in an EV, because you know that when it comes time to go again, you will able to do so. 🙂
Great video guys! I would like to see y’all do this in a comparable ICE vehicle (set the standard so to speak). Just doing some quick math, my accord would have done this trip $17 cheaper if I got 35mpg and avg. fuel is $3.50 a gal. I know charging at home is much cheaper, but hate seeing that fast charging when you have to is more expensive than a gas car would be.
Same with my Lexus Es350..that thing will cruise all day long at 80mph and get low 30mpg. You save zero by doing this in an EV. Just shows that EVs have a range limit economically...say 200 miles of your home or free chargers.
@@zachlafond2652 I suppose technically you save on oil changes/fluid changes with an EV. But yeah superchargers are around the price of gas for a ~35mpg vehicle. Charging at home or work is really where you save money.
the orange ca fountain had a car drive through it at an extremely high rate of speed there is a video on the oc register youtube page of it.
If Tommy wanted good barbecue, in Junction Texas there is a good barbecue restaurant on the opposite side of the lot the superchargers are on.
With Houston, when I used to work in the oilfield I found that the quickest way through town was to take the toll road around town.
It used to be that the tellers at Industry bank in Columbus & Prosperity bank in Winnie knew me by sight and got the roll of quarters ready for me when they saw me walk in the door.
Start planning your route with "A better route planner". Then enter each stop in the Tesla's trip planer as you go.
I’d like to see a ICE comparison too. Maybe next time have one of the guys take the Cummins and trailer and leave at the same time, meet you there and tow you home.
Doing some quick math you paid 277 for 2501 miles. Taking an average car that gets 25mph highway that would have taken 100 gals of gas. 100 gals times an average of 3.80 a gal. Or $380 that's a interesting savings
And the big savings come when you commute and charge at home (or even better free charging at work!)
Listening on 🎧 and then the 💨 sounds
Why aren't you using ABRP?
From the wheels it looks like they are in the performance version not the one design for this kind of thing
Andre... We're going to the D park. Tommy... It's so huge.
What is going on at TFL? 😂
Great video. Good to know that it's such a good road tripping car. Though, $277 is more than I expected for the charging cost. I figured electricity would be cheaper than gas, but I guess when you're using public chargers, it's not. Good to know.
A car getting 30 mpg would cost less for gas @ $3.50 per gallon!
@@RichardinNC1 I don't know where you are getting your math from, but that's not right. In your example, an ICE car getting 30 mpg, traveling 2501 miles, and gas being $3.50,... it would be more expensive at $291.78 total. Now 32 mpg? That would rival the Tesla at $273.55. Negligible? Maybe,.. but Tesla's are awesome for roadtriping due to the safety features, autopiolot, sound system, and comfort.
No windshield brushes in the gas lanes at a Buc-ees? Lol. How many Superchargers have them?
I thought of that too, but as a rule chargers are unattended, that would be difficult to maintain. Besides out of the last 10 times Ive looked for squeegees at gas stations (not Buc-ees never seen one), probably only 1 actually had them AND had some (useful) liquid in the bucket AND had paper towels.
@@natehill8069 There are an awful lot of things that we take at least a bit for granted at the tens of thousands of gas stations (where the average stop is
You should start something like the "Iron Butt Assocation" has for motorcycles. There are rules that a motorcycle rider can do on a road trip for 1,000 miles in 24 hours or whatever. They are required to document their trip with gas receipts etc. Do the same sort of thing for "D to D" in an EV.
does it take temperature and weather in conderation? avoiding big cities?
Great production guys! Loved the intro. Thumbs up likey likey
I didn’t know about that Tesla charger in Ocala. The one at the next exit south is the only one I knew about.
I always stop at Ehrenberg instead of Quartzite because I'm usually that far along before the Burger King is open in Quartzite. If Burger King isn't open, no bathroom close by.
I don't think you guys have ever watched a Kyle Conner road trip video.
Texas is big at aprox. 835 miles across but come up to Ontario Canada and the drive across the province is 1300 miles
There's nothing up there.
@@Charlesbjtownthe people of Thunder Bay have been insulted.
Was going to say the same thing about Ontario, having driven both. And a lot of that Ontario drive is two lane road at max 90km/h or 55mph.
Oh yeah? 😄
@@kman0074 Both of them?
Why doesn't the GPS recalculate the route based on traffic??
28:52 oh yeah, btw, Buccees doesn't have squeegees lol
The built-in route planner seems to be a bit too conservative, especially given how fast teslas charge down low. I wish you could make it more "risky" so to say and set a lower arrival SoC, especially on a competition style run.
Great video! Loved it!
Given how far Tesla have come in just over a 10 years, these things will be seriously competitive in the near future, especially with Tesla being made the North American standard charger
In Denmark we got stuck on a highway at an accident for 4 hours. We where heading to a conference in Aarhus. We opted for the fast highway/bridge route instead of the slow direct Aarhus car ferry. A truck of bacon futures flipped over on the The Great Belt bridge island. They had hunt down the escaping bacon futures before they opened up the highway. It made for a laugh at the conference.
You have to be a Local. To maneuver H Town I-10. It’s confusing when you have that many lanes and exits. 😆
Welcome to Texas.
Silly to use 3 P. Lose enough range to matter. Sorry to hear about all the traffic related crap.
So 45 hours 39 minutes and 8 seconds. Tommy is still timid about backing a Model 3 up to things. (so much so that he needs a spotter to back up to the chargers. lol) Spirits were apparently better with this team than the previous trip team. Traffic delay could've been an issue had it happened in a tight % situation for an EV. As in, it could have ended the trip on the side of the road with no charging help. (as opposed to a gas can fill up) The ionic 5 was cheaper to charge over the trip. But the Tesla network is faster, but you pay more for it. Does not balance out. It is like going from 87 octane to 92. 92 will burn better and get you better mpg(in theory) but you pay more. So it does not balance out. lol
It is crazy that Buc-ees has no windshield cleaning wands.
The delay made me think, what is your plan if you had gotten a flat tire? I know M3P does not have a spare tire? It would suck if you were like 2hrs from record and got a flat tire. For longer trips I trow one of my extra winter tires in the trunk and my small Jack. In 5 years it saved my ass one time at 5am during the winter when I got a flat.
I keep a dewalt air compressor in my trunk. As long as it's not a complete blowout, I can fill it up, drive a little ways and repeat until I get to a tire shop. I do have a spare, but it takes so much space. I really wish they could have made the under-trunk area a bit bigger. My last 1000+ mile trip I decided to get new tires a little early. I probably had 5-10k miles left on the OEMs, but felt safer with fresh tires and left the spare at home.
Has anybody ever done a study on whether an EV causes you to gain weight? It seems a lot of snaking goes on at the charge stations.
One of the best road trips on RUclips! Excellent!
"To B or not to B"... best line of the whole video 🙂
You should a US Round Trip could be super fun 😂
You should guys deduct stand still traffic jams since it is something that slows you down almost 2h and its not realted with the car or charging network performance.
Great job, what would have happened if you guys were in a M3LR, (353 miles), I think your max range was 315, or if you figured out some way to put on 18” s …hahaha peace MHK
Tesla Nav needs a CANNONBALL mode- where you can set the SC arrival SOC at 3-5%
It was quite a bit more efficient than the Ioniq 5...3.36 miles/Kwh is good, especially for a dual-motor vehicle. In the end I think the efficiency trumped the charging advantage of the Ioniq's 800V architecture.
How much time did you spend charging?
Great video guys
Wasn’t one of Roman’s rules to start and stop the timer touching each fountain?
Doesn't count as parked in front of a Stop sign ... 😏
Now you need to do that drive in an ICE vehicle. 🤔😁
@tflev are you up for a challenge? EV Cannonball across Mexico?
That trip would have been luxurious in a 3.0L Chevy 1/2 ton diesel. 720 mi range.
33:55 looking good lmfao
When prices come down and infrastructure catches up + getting around 5-6 miles per kw/h, but not until then.
10 minutes of research would've told you to watch out for the 150kW chargers, co pilot should be planning that.
Tommy's a TG 😁
Next time a Model Y long-range with a nice air mattress in the back so you can hot cot the driving between chargers.
Carrots?!? Remind me not to go on a road trip with Andre. 😄