Can Electric Vehicles Revive the Great Aussie Road Trip? Part 3

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:20:19 +0000

The great Aussie road trip continues. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. Our Bairnsdale accommodation was not only luxurious but had Tesla destination chargers. We had a stress-free few days visiting spots around Lakes Entrance in Victoria. We walked out to the entrance itself — a 5 km round trip — and saw […]

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Can Electric Vehicles Revive the Great Aussie Road Trip? Part 2

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:00:23 +0000

For the beginning of the great Aussie road trip in EVs, you need to read part 1. In Sydney, we stayed with old school friends and demonstrated how we could charge in their garage over the weekend. He is a big fan of Lexus, but they can only offer an EV with 200 km of […]

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Can Electric Vehicles Revive the Great Aussie Road Trip? Part One

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:40:59 +0000

As petrol and diesel race each other to $2.50 a litre, electric vehicle drivers do not have to worry about the cost of their driving. We have just returned from a 3,600 kilometre great Aussie road trip which cost us about $200 in fuel … $50 on Chargefox and $150 on Tesla. Taking a slow […]

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Westward Ho! 1500 Miles in My Tesla Model 3 Long Range with 2 Mountain Ebikes: Cost, Supercharging, Tips

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 21:52:41 +0000

My wife and I have just completed our annual 1500 mile trip from Three Lakes in northern Wisconsin to Lindon, Utah, 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. We take three days in our Tesla Model 3 Long Range just like we did previously with our Toyota Highlander gasmobile. This is true even with two […]

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Tesla FSD Beta 10.69 Road Trip Test — Part 1

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:12:05 +0000

We’ve now taken a long road trip with Tesla FSD Beta 10.69. Here’s our report on how it performed. Background — What Is Tesla FSD Beta? There are three different levels of driver automation that Tesla drivers have/can get. Every Tesla car has advanced Autosteer and Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC). Autosteer will keep you perfectly […]

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8300-Mile EV Road Trip: Washington to Canadian Maritimes

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:44:56 +0000

By David Morgan, Plug-In NCW Newsletter We just completed a 5-week, 8,300-mile family road trip to the Canadian Maritimes and back again. Although we’ve been driving electric cars since 2014 and have logged almost 200,000 EV miles, including several multi-day road trips in our 2018 Bolt EV, this trip was unlike any we’d done before. […]

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Tesla Model Y & Model X Are 1st Electric Vehicles To Reach Mt. Everest Base Camp (Video)

Credit to Author: Iqtidar Ali| Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:01:52 +0000

Even 5 years back, no one would’ve imagined an electric vehicle reaching anywhere near the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma in Chinese). But the ever-expanding network of Tesla Superchargers has made it possible. A Tesla Model X and a Tesla Model Y have reached the Mt. Everest Base Camp. The incredible journey was […]

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A Tesla Model 3 Road Trip to Corsica (with Pictures)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 02:20:29 +0000

My friend Marco “Speedy” Jeanrenaud, a resident of the Lake Geneva region of Switzerland, is a lifelong car lover — over the years, he has owned, among others, a 1976 Cadillac, a Dodge Charger, several Ford Mustangs, a Range Rover SUV, and Harley and BMW motorcycles. In 2016, he bought a Model S, and soon […]

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How Long Do Electric Cars Last? This Tesla Has Gone 1 Million Miles!

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 22:45:25 +0000

A Tesla owner in Germany, Hansjörg Gemmingen, recently shared that his Tesla Model S P85, which he purchased in 2014, had reached a milestone of 1 million miles. Gemmingen shared this achievement on Twitter, and he expects the milestone to be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. https://t.co/UyOkqXK8zR pic.twitter.com/Z7HzmibkGg — Hansjörg von Gemmingen […]

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