SpaceYooper
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Truck stuff or not, I don't know. I never said truck stuff, but I use one vehicle to do all stuff and that includes, as I've mentioned several times over the last 4 years, cold weather, crappy, muddy, slushy, snowy, icy remote roads for about 7-10 days while hunting with a 4 wheeler in the bed.
I drive several hrs to camp out. The closest Tesla SC is about 1.5 hrs from the campsite and it's out of the way. There is a Charge Point charger about 35 miles away, but it's also out of the way. With the CT I won't be able to put the 4-wheeler in the bed...unless we find out the bed is actually 6.5ft as it was originally stated, but I'm no longer counting on that, so I'll be trailering the 4-wheeler when/where I can.
So the best case is I drive out of the way that 35 miles and fully charge up then head the 35 miles to the campsite. 500 minus 35 miles to camp and 35 to get back to the charger gives me 430 miles of range and I would be on empty in perfect conditions (not trailering anything). Let's say I want to arrive for a recharge with 30 miles of range left. That gives me 400 miles. Which, in the cold, wet crap, sometimes trailering, will be how many actual miles....200-250, (Most of the driving time from the campsite is under 30 mph on dirt roads, some of it is on county roads at 55mph, but definitely not the majority). We drive about 50 miles, sometimes more per day. We are there for a week to 10 days. I'm going to need to charge up again at some point with a 500-mile truck.
Call it what you want, but I certainly don't want to do it 2-3 times with a lesser mileage version.
500 or bust. I don't care about the other variants.
I drive several hrs to camp out. The closest Tesla SC is about 1.5 hrs from the campsite and it's out of the way. There is a Charge Point charger about 35 miles away, but it's also out of the way. With the CT I won't be able to put the 4-wheeler in the bed...unless we find out the bed is actually 6.5ft as it was originally stated, but I'm no longer counting on that, so I'll be trailering the 4-wheeler when/where I can.
So the best case is I drive out of the way that 35 miles and fully charge up then head the 35 miles to the campsite. 500 minus 35 miles to camp and 35 to get back to the charger gives me 430 miles of range and I would be on empty in perfect conditions (not trailering anything). Let's say I want to arrive for a recharge with 30 miles of range left. That gives me 400 miles. Which, in the cold, wet crap, sometimes trailering, will be how many actual miles....200-250, (Most of the driving time from the campsite is under 30 mph on dirt roads, some of it is on county roads at 55mph, but definitely not the majority). We drive about 50 miles, sometimes more per day. We are there for a week to 10 days. I'm going to need to charge up again at some point with a 500-mile truck.
Call it what you want, but I certainly don't want to do it 2-3 times with a lesser mileage version.
500 or bust. I don't care about the other variants.
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