Trip planner - multi day trips

[mongo]

tip: I would charge up to 75-80% when you stop for the night and plug in if you have level 2 charging, then schedule charge up to 90 (or 95%) for when you plan to leave in the morning. You don't want your battery to sit full for long at all. Not good for it. I generally recommend to never charge to 100% unless you absolutely need it.

Counterpoint: I go 100% before every road trip.
Unless it's mid summer in a hot area, setting it to 100% overnight isn't going to cause significant degradation, especially if won't reach that until near departure anyway.

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[M0unt41nm4n]

Counterpoint: I go 100% before every road trip.
Unless it's mid summer in a hot area, setting it to 100% overnight isn't going to cause significant degradation, especially if won't reach that until near departure anyway.

Thats what I do coming/going to Moab from Durango. It gets me to Moab with about 45-50% left and about 28-34% returning (all uphill). I still don't have the marbles to drive it down to 8-10% like some of you other Tesla folks. If I had more bailout options between the two locations, I may try doing that. Unfortunately I need Tesla to build their promised SC in Cortez to make that happen. Heck, I will even take a CCS DCS there. There is a DCS Chargepoint in Monticello, which would work, but my CCS adapter has not been working at that location.

 

[MI2Y4U]

Memphis maybe rundown in your opinion, but the here are a few interesting sites to see in that area. You can visit the Drake Hotel in Downtown Memphis. If you go in the morning, you can watch the ducks march from the elevator to their fountain. If you go in the evening, you’ll see them march from their fountain to the elevator, which they take to their penthouse. Then there is always Elvis’ house. And if you need food, stop by Gus’ Fried Chicken. There is also the headquarter for Bass Pro Shops. It all depends on what you are interested in seeing. I am from NJ originally but live in Texas now, so I have no ties at all to the Memphis area. These are things that just captured my attention. Beale Street is also in Memphis as well as some BBQ from the Rendezvous!

 

[mongo]

Thats what I do coming/going to Moab from Durango. It gets me to Moab with about 45-50% left and about 28-34% returning (all uphill). I still don't have the marbles to drive it down to 8-10% like some of you other Tesla folks. If I had more bailout options between the two locations, I may try doing that. Unfortunately I need Tesla to build their promised SC in Cortez to make that happen. Heck, I will even take a CCS DCS there. There is a DCS Chargepoint in Monticello, which would work, but my CCS adapter has not been working at that location.

Yeah, waiting at a Supercharger to get way more charge than you need to reach the next is diminishing returns, but starting a trip topped up is all gravy.
(Unless your trip starts out going steeply downhill, then leave room for regen)
We've done one <10% leg and paralleled the freeway to lower Wh/mile. Not fun.

 

[L3it3R]

I solo travel a lot and have done it professionally for the DoD.

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[i_dont_have_one]

So a little update on my trip, I used FSD quite a bit the first two days, there were a couple of disengagements but overall it makes the drive so much easier. I made it to Memphis, TN yesterday just before the winter storm hit. When I ordered my beast I chose the all season tires because I wasn’t planning on having to drive on icy roads anymore, after all I’m moving the the Phoenix, AZ area. Boy was I wrong. Those tires are awful on just a bit of snow, much less the snow and ice that covered the area last night. I might be stuck here until the road conditions improve.

 

[scottf200]

I searched the forum but didn't find much on the topic I am intereted in, I apologize in advance if this has been hashed out before. I recently retired and will be taking my first long journey from the mid-Atlantic to Arizona. I am interested in how you long range, intrepid travelers plan multi day trips using the trip planner. Is it better to just enter the final destination in the in-vehicle trip planner and mash the go pedal, come what may or break it into day-ish trips until the final destination is reached?

I've had my beast since mid September, and this is my first foray into the Tesla ecosystem so this is all new to me. I must confess I am a planner (when my son and I go out for dinner I check the menu online well ahead of time) so not having the 'everything in between' pre-planned days/weeks in advance is new to me (maybe I need to learn to 'run with scissors' more often now). Any advice is much appreciated, thank you.

I've done > 100K in road-tripping in my Teslas. I've use MyScenicDrives (URL link) to help plan my multi-day trips for years.

Within each day I use ABetterRoutePlanner.

A couple ABetterRoutePlanner (ABRP) examples and setting options to start with in my thread here:
https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...ections-to-their-ct-models.11487/#post-229912

I had done a lot of testing with ABRP and they fixed problems that I found.
16Jan2024: A Better Routeplanner [ABRP] made corrections to their CT models

 

[Eka]

In the week before some trips I do a bit of battery charge maintenance. Apparently the S and X were able to quickly calibrate for various states of charge like when you are in a store. The 3 and Y are supposed to need 2 or 3 hours or so rest at a charge level to get the information they need. I don't know about the CT. Sometimes before a Trip I would drive my Y down to 5% or so and let it set 3 hours. Then I'd charge it to 20%, and let it sit 3+ hours. Next 50%, then 70% or 80%. The night before the trip I'd set the charge current so the battery would be 100% charged an hour before expected leave time. That way it has time to gather that data and top balance just before I need it to be accurate.

Usually for trips I schedule sightseeing along the way, but I will put in the destination to see where it wants to go. I then ignore it and go my own way. I do lots of "Ooh, shiny!" and divert some other direction.

For decades I've been collecting lists of places it would seam fun to visit. I have them for all states, and most of the world. I have a Trip Planning folder with sub folders for every state and many countries. There are one or more documents I've written or cut-n-pasted stuff into, and images and PDF files I've collected on places I want to visit. I collect actual documents because sites on the web will change their storage structure or go away. Yeah, I keep a link to the original, but I don't expect it to work a decade later. I will print the web page or thread to a PDF file, and store that as part of the site's information.

I try to get ICBM addresses for every site so I can georefrence them. I can't seam to find the perl script I wrote to make a permuted index web pacge of every site in a sub directory based on direction and distance plus key words for the site. I also could tell it to only list stuff within X miles of an ICBM address. ICBM addresses could also be looked up from a town/city list I grabbed from the Tiger data.

 

[HaulingAss]

This is great advice, thank you. Arrival SOC is something I think I would want to tweak. Since this would be my first long distance trip I would rather start cautios and relax it as I get comfortable with the route. For me it's the journey (not just the destination) so I am willing to make the journey an enjoyable part of the trip.

If I know I won't have destination charging, I like to plan on needing a charge right before my destination. That way I can charge up to 60-65% and have a little break before I roll into my destination with 55%-60% SOC.

If I know there will be destination charging, I still like to arrive with around 20-25% for contingencies.

The bad mistake to make is starting out in the morning with only 15%-25% (or less) SOC. that doesn't give you enough time to pre-condition the battery for Supercharging and, even if that wasn't a thing, it breaks up the driving day in an unfavorable way by requiring a stop in the morning as soon as you get going.

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