tesla2mme
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- First Name
- Tony
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2022
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- Location
- California (Bay)
- Vehicles
- MME GT in the best color ever made (cyber orange!)
- Occupation
- Engineer
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Good morning everyone!
It isn’t as big of a drive as many people, but we took the plunge and went down from the Bay to Pismo Beach for a couple of days without the kids!
We departed from Oakland at about 85% charge, and had to stop once at the Gilroy outlets, for an EA station. We did some shopping and our car was ready for us before we were ready for it! Very cool. Sustained charge was over 100 kW.
Back on the road we encountered a lovely and mythic rare thunderstorm replete with lightning and big rain drops. The MachE handled wet roads with aplomb. Rain sensing wipers did great.
Arrived at the hotel to find that their advertised “destination charger” was a ChargePoint that cost $0.40/kwh and delivered power at below 6 kW. Huh. Okay well we were over a barrel and needed the juice so we went with it. It was a 70 kW charge so about 80%?(88 kW battery?)!
We decided to take some time on the trip and drive to Avila Beach and while there, take some photos. The sun cooperated for a few minutes and never had I ever driven on a wooden pier before so I went ahead and took the opportunity to do that (picture 1). Also wanted to recreate a picture I took of my ‘08 GT/CS back in the day many moons ago for picture 2.
Finally picture 3 my wife took, while I was driving. the speed limit recognition is usually pretty good, but for some reason near SLO, it decided the limit was 85. I thought better of testing that vs CHP’s interpretation and kept it below 85. Lol
In the way back we had a crummy EA experience. Navi sent us to an EA station at a Walmart more than a mile off the freeway at Harden Ranch. We got to the Plot with 11%, and I saw an EA charger in the middle of the lot. Taken. But it says 2/4 available…
Kept driving around, range anxiety growing, and located 6 EA chargers at the far end of the parking lot. 4 of them were “unavailable” (it would be nice to know before I park and get out….) but lucky for me no one else was there so I had a “350 kW” all to myself. It never went about 70 kW, but it got the job done and we got home.
The whole trip was an average of a flat 3.0/kWh which to me felt great since it’s a power hungry GT eAWD and I don’t really have a light foot. There was a lot of city driving and a decent chunk of stop and go on Route 101, probably why.
Thanks for reading!
It isn’t as big of a drive as many people, but we took the plunge and went down from the Bay to Pismo Beach for a couple of days without the kids!
We departed from Oakland at about 85% charge, and had to stop once at the Gilroy outlets, for an EA station. We did some shopping and our car was ready for us before we were ready for it! Very cool. Sustained charge was over 100 kW.
Back on the road we encountered a lovely and mythic rare thunderstorm replete with lightning and big rain drops. The MachE handled wet roads with aplomb. Rain sensing wipers did great.
Arrived at the hotel to find that their advertised “destination charger” was a ChargePoint that cost $0.40/kwh and delivered power at below 6 kW. Huh. Okay well we were over a barrel and needed the juice so we went with it. It was a 70 kW charge so about 80%?(88 kW battery?)!
We decided to take some time on the trip and drive to Avila Beach and while there, take some photos. The sun cooperated for a few minutes and never had I ever driven on a wooden pier before so I went ahead and took the opportunity to do that (picture 1). Also wanted to recreate a picture I took of my ‘08 GT/CS back in the day many moons ago for picture 2.
Finally picture 3 my wife took, while I was driving. the speed limit recognition is usually pretty good, but for some reason near SLO, it decided the limit was 85. I thought better of testing that vs CHP’s interpretation and kept it below 85. Lol
In the way back we had a crummy EA experience. Navi sent us to an EA station at a Walmart more than a mile off the freeway at Harden Ranch. We got to the Plot with 11%, and I saw an EA charger in the middle of the lot. Taken. But it says 2/4 available…
Kept driving around, range anxiety growing, and located 6 EA chargers at the far end of the parking lot. 4 of them were “unavailable” (it would be nice to know before I park and get out….) but lucky for me no one else was there so I had a “350 kW” all to myself. It never went about 70 kW, but it got the job done and we got home.
The whole trip was an average of a flat 3.0/kWh which to me felt great since it’s a power hungry GT eAWD and I don’t really have a light foot. There was a lot of city driving and a decent chunk of stop and go on Route 101, probably why.
Thanks for reading!