> I'd bet that most Tesla drivers will never have to stop to recharge, mostly because they will use their Tesla around town, and will take long trips in another car or fly, because Tesla owners are wealthy.
That's probably true, but much of the recent marketing around battery swaps and transcontinental charging networks is aimed specifically at road trips. I suppose one would argue that they're working on this infrastructure now for the future when much more affordable EVs are available.
Note that imperial gallons are substantially larger than the regular kind. A 10 imperial gallon tank holds 12 US gallons, and so 700 miles from a 10 imperial gallon tank is actually about 58MPG. Still very high, of course.
Re:Battery Swap [video]
by loup-vaillant on Friday June 21, 2013 @08:29PM
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Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric.
The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units. Namely, the Litre from the metric system.
Smug Frenchman
It's not my fault that one of the units is just the name of the other unit with a modifier. It's not like "gallon" is shorthand for something longer and more formal.
Re:Battery Swap [video]
by chockablock on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:34PM
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Hint: when an Englishman walks into a pub, he doesn't order an 'imperial pint' of beer...
An Audi A6, in the US at least, gets 33 highway MPG and has a 19.8 gallon fuel tank.
And yes, of course you charge the Tesla more often. You charge it every night when you come home, and it's ready with a full charge the next morning. That's just a totally different usage pattern from only filling up when it gets low like you do with a gasoline powered car.
I'd bet that most Tesla drivers will never have to stop to recharge, mostly because they will use their Tesla around town, and will take long trips in another car or fly, because Tesla owners are wealthy.
EDIT: converted imperial gallons to US