Tesla Model 3: highway and 1,500km journey | How long, how much does it cost

How much does it cost to travel with an electric car and how long does it take on the highway considering the fast recharges? Impossible to answer this question univocally, more & ugrave; It is easy to give you a real example by bringing you the numbers and data that speak for themselves: unequivocal and objective, even if contextualized in a subjective experience.

• TRAVEL PLANNING WITH ELECTRIC CARS
• AT BETTER ROUTE PLANNER, HOW IT WORKS
• 1,500 ELECTRIC KM, COSTS AND TIMES
• PROBLEMS OF TRAVELING WITH ELECTRIC CARS
• ALL THE TRIP NUMBERS
• LET'S TALK ABOUT IT LIVE

TRAVEL PLANNING WITH ELECTRIC CAR TESLA MODEL 3 CONFIGURATOR

Mercedes and the Volkswagen group (Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen …) are the most ; promising in terms of planning tools perch & eacute; their cars have or will have (with OTA update) software tools that are close to that of Tesla.

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For everyone, however, apps like ABRP allow us to get an idea of ​​the trip, here are the specific forecasts of A Better Route Planner:

And here are the parameters that I set manually in the app to have a greater correspondence to my specific conditions:

• columns : use Tesla Supercharger network only (no IONITY, no others)
• additional weight: 200 kg with the load on board the car
• state of charge at departure: automatic (the app reads the state by connecting to the car), it was 100%
• SoC at arrival: 20% minimum
• SoC at post: 10% minimum
• Speed: 100% (maximum speed from limit)
• Speed max: 150 km/h

With SoC upon arrival/at the column , it means that I asked the app to never let me get to a charging station with less than 10% battery. This is serious; an emergency buffer useful to have the equivalent of a thermal reserve (a hundred kilometers) to go and find an alternative column nearby (or a hotel) if the reload should be subject to a catastrophic event and suddenly disappear from the map.

There are more strategies; extreme (get to the columns with 5% or less) but it depends on your degree of risk and your confidence in the infrastructure. In the case of Superchargers, trust is; very high , in the case of the other infrastructures & egrave; more low, and I speak from direct experience after several electrical tests throughout Italy.

ABRP: HOW IT WORKS

A Better Route Planner it works and & egrave; a very valuable help for those who have to plan an electric trip. Why & eacute; c & # 39; & egrave; inconsistency between ABRP and actual data? First of all ABRP & egrave; a simulator, rich in customizable parameters and very precise, but it cannot; know the unexpected. The app considered, for example, that I was always going full speed at maximum speed; from code, which in real life hardly happens.

The expected 18 hours of travel are realistic if we consider that ABRP cannot; know unexpected events such as the waiting time at the ferry, the queue at the barrier of Catania because hardly anyone had the Telepass (and whoever had it was forced to wait anyway) or my forced break for a tactical nap in Morano Calabro. On this last occasion, in fact, I recharged the battery to 100% (recharging slows down a lot after 80% as in all electric) just because I had need & agrave; to sleep so I can get back to driving.

If for & ograve; manage to be more faithful to the parameters to be configured, activate the traffic in real time, always respect the limits and follow the ABRP instructions to the letter, the gap is considerably reduced and & egrave; It is therefore easy to use the suggestions of the app to plan stops for lunch, dinner, snacks or various and possible needs.

MILAN-SICILY IN ELECTRICITY: HOW MUCH I SPENT

With one foot more light at speed by code, the journey is also covered at averages below 19 kWh/100 km, a sign of the excellent efficiency of the Model 3 with climate always active, two adults on board and the trunk (and part of the rear seats) loaded. In summary:

• How much does a trip on the motorway cost by recharging with superchargers for 1,500 km with a Tesla Model 3? 140 euros, about 9 & euro; to cover 100 kilometers
• How much does 1,500 kilometers cost with a Model 3 charging at home ? 50 euros, about 3 & euros; to travel 100 kilometers

For the sake of completeness of information, I also report the other costs associated with the trip but valid, obviously, for any car, at least as long as; will not extend toll discounts for electric cars everywhere:

• Toll: 65.8 euros
• Ferry Strait of Messina: 39 euros
• Total: 243.38 euros

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CRITICISM? TO SOLVE

For the section & quot; it also has some faults & quot;, let's see what were the critical issues; main. The first is about Tesla's software . Traveling & egrave; excellent and automatically recalculates stops for recharging in the event of unforeseen events or driver choices that deviate from suggestions. For & ograve; is not; customizable, not & egrave; made for geeks : on the one hand the choice is; ideal because & eacute; most people want something already; digested. For control freaks it can & ograve; be a bore not to have that minimum of options that ABRP offers instead (he like other similar apps, free and paid that they are).

The Superchargers are all very close to the motorway exit : in the most cases; extreme it takes less than 5 minutes from the toll booth to the outlet. Traveling during the day you will have no problems using the services of the nearby accommodation facilities (or the shopping center as in the case of the two V3s visited, Arese and Catania). Only Dorno, for & ograve ;, & egrave; installed in a traditional service station and the lack of a support place & quot; 24/7 & quot; such as the & quot; autogrill & quot; yes & egrave; felt, except for the minimum services (the bathroom) that the hotel still makes available.

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