Re:One gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range
by aaronblohowiak on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:42PM
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Driving 200 miles is doable today. 600, I definitely need to stop, stretch legs and eat. Sfbay to az and and I stopped more frequently than “required” just to get a break from the road. I’m middle aged though so ymmv
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Re:One gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range
by dghlsakjg on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:57PM
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When I was in college, and much more willing to suffer, it was 335 miles from home to school, and took 5.5 hours driving. I could do that without stopping, though normally would stop at least once for snacks/bathroom. Now I’m more likely to stop two or three times on a trip that long.
Even now on a mountain west traffic-free interstate I don’t really count on going more than 500 miles in a day. And that includes a meal break.
Both of these use cases sound like they would be very minimally disrupted by planning my stops around a charging break.
I think that range anxiety is largely overblown for a huge majority of use cases.