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Wouldn't a typical taxicab usage require a charge in the middle of the day too? I have no idea how much they usually drive per day but it must be more than 230 miles.
Eric Holder says
Wouldn't a typical taxicab usage require a charge in the middle of the day too? I have no idea how much they usually drive per day but it must be more than 230 miles.
Our drivers average about 160 miles per day, so it is doable for the portion of drivers that do not do out-of-town trips.
The second GPS failure happened when we were driving from Three Rivers, California to Kings Canyon National Park. We were sent on a wild and twisting road. It took us two hours to reach the park. There was an easier road that was straight just a few miles away. We would have made it to the park in an hour. Please do your own research and do not blindly trust your GPS.
For the first time in all our travels around California, we had problems finding chargers for the Tesla. We were in a remote village called Three Rivers. A hotel in the town had a primitive Tesla charger that would charge 20 miles per hour on the charger. It was only available to hotel guests. We were not hotel guests. I had to drive 43 miles one way to Traver, California to get to a Tesla supercharger. For the first couple of days, it only charged 80% of the battery giving me a range of 280 miles. After I drove 42 miles to the hotel. I was down to a short range of 230 miles. That did not help in parks with large distances. At one point I had to go to a hotel charger and sit for 3.5 hours while the battery was charged to its capacity. If you have an electric vehicle, do some careful planning on chargers!