Quote Originally Posted by hurley842002 View Post
Our longest trip is here to Southern California, sometimes we drive from here to Grand Junction, stay the night, and make the rest of the drive, sometimes we drive from here to St. George UT, and then finish the trip. I couldn't drive to St. George on a single charge with any of the common EV's out right now. I haven't researched the drive using an EV, and perhaps it is possible if you strategize, but with a 4 and 5 year old, we need a bit more flexibility than current EV's will allow.
So, again, why do you think you need to drive that 641 miles on a single charge? You don't drive that far on a single tank of gas so why do you put an unfair comparison on an EV?

With a Tesla you get in, put in your destination and it automatically calculates all of the stops you need to make, what time you will get there, how long you will need to be there charging and even the percentage of your remaining charge when you get there. You don't have to think about anything. Just drive. Every couple of hours you stop for 15-30 min which the lion's share of you stops in that 20 minute range. That's about when you'd want a quick break anyway even if you were in an ICE vehicle.

As far as flexibility goes... what do you need? You can still stop whenever or wherever you want. You start to find where Superchargers are near where you want to stop for whatever reason though and the nav unit will automatically recalculate your trip with fewer stops for less time based on the short stop you just made. It's really quite simple in practice. We end up at little malls and shopping areas that have either fast food or dining and shops if that's your thing too.

All of this talk of range and we haven't even got into how much faster, smoother, quieter and awesome-er these cars are.