Woody wrote: If I'm going to spend that much on a car, I want it to be the one that I drive when I take a long trip.
You can take a long trip. Hell, pretty much anywhere you go past 200 miles will take longer. 
Woody wrote: If I'm going to spend that much on a car, I want it to be the one that I drive when I take a long trip.
You can take a long trip. Hell, pretty much anywhere you go past 200 miles will take longer.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Woody wrote: If I'm going to spend that much on a car, I want it to be the one that I drive when I take a long trip.You can take a long trip. Hell, pretty much anywhere you go past 200 miles will take longer.
Except the guys that drove across from Portland Oregon to Washington DC in theri Teslas took about as long as it would in a normal car, given normal daily drive times (like, you shouldn't be driving 24/7). And the trips between DC and Boston take about the same as normal, given normal refueling in a D class luxury car and potty breaks.
Most people that I know with Teslas never come close to exhausting their range in daily use, any more than I do with the Volt.
Chris_V wrote: Except the guys that drove across from Portland Oregon to Washington DC in theri Teslas took about as long as it would in a normal car, given normal daily drive times (like, you shouldn't be driving 24/7).
Here is the rub... there are no normal people driving across the country. Only lunatics who rip off 22hrs at a clip with just coffee and 5 minute fuel stops. Anyone driving only "reasonable" amounts when looking at a 2000 mile trip is doing it to prove a point. The rest of us want to be somewhere before it's time to come home.
If they could get that thing to 300mi and do the robot-changy-battery thing to get you up and rolling again quickly (so 600 or 900 miles was possible) it would be a massive shift in people below the threshold. Even people who don't need the range would still be swayed by it (same irrational reason they buy bread when it snows). As it stands - I routinely need to go 300+ miles in a day. I don't have "not getting paid for charge time" in my schedule or I would be very interested in one.
Chris_V wrote: Most people that I know with Teslas never come close to exhausting their range in daily use, any more than I do with the Volt.
I commute 100 miles a day and a Tesla would be damn near perfect for me. The new Model X looks really nice, although I fear the price will be no less than a Model S.
A $30K-ish version - especially in a wagon version - could be right up my ally.
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