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Electric Vehicles Are Great for Long Trips

That''s when autopilot is so nice. Let the car handle the detail driving and you focus on watching for anomalies.

At least most Tesla owners can charge at home and avoid the traffic, smells and mess of a gas station. I often charge at a Sheetz, but at least I am some dozens of yards from the stinky gas pumps.

You will likely be free for some years to continue to drive your carbon pump. But sooner or later either the gas tax will make them prohibitive to drive or the cars themselves will be taxed off the roads.

That won't matter anyway. In a few more years cars will be driving themselves and that technology will only be on electric vehicles since they won't be upgrading any ICE products... if they are making them at all.

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Wow! I just reached my destination and the car says I traveled the last 30 miles with only 260 Wh/mi consumption! I've never seen it that low. That was with the AC and headlights on. The car consumption was 280 Wh/mi sinc e the charge 70 miles back.

I've seen it at 300 Wh/mi before and typically it's 330 or more on highways . Right now with 74% charge it says I can travel 240 miles. Of course tha t wouldn't apply at 70 mph. Still that works out to be 325 miles per full charge. That's surprising since this car is the Queen Mary of the Tesla l ine.

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Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Now, all you need is a BTTF 'reactor' on the trunk (in the trunk) that produces enough to 'locomote' the car as well as 'refill' the 'fuel storage'. Feed it a beer can and a banana peel, and it gets you across the country.

If you do it just right you can drive into a mountainside and into the 8th dimension, or go 88 MPH and backward or forward in time. :-)

Just don't let a space herpes loose in your car.

(how many movies references and what are they)?

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Back to the future and Buckaroo Bansai. Not sure about the space herpes. While I was looking it up turns out herpes is detected in astronauts while in space more so than while on earth. They speculate it is because of the stress of space flight. Go figure.

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Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

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Oh you'd like this one...

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

snipped-for-privacy@decadence.org wrote in news:qgcq6e$1hfa$1 @gioia.aioe.org:

Bwuahahahah!

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

snipped-for-privacy@decadence.org wrote in news:qgcqa1$1hfa$2 @gioia.aioe.org:

$1

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figure.

Three big brutes...

Robert Urich John Matuszak Ron Perlman

I never knew Robert Urich was that huge.

Also Anjelica Huston back when she looked hotter.

It is actually a pretty funny movie. Drive in kind of stuff. Turned into a cult classic thing.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Try the open-source autopilot upgrade for ICE cars IF YOU DARE

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bitrex

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  Rick C. 

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Rick C

Just wait until you are TENTH in line for the supercharger...

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Flyguy

That's why they call it a long trip.

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John Larkin

s to driving cross country. Very few people won't want to stop periodicall y to eat and use a bathroom. Here is a perfect example of what a trip in a Tesla is like.

20,000 miles and no lines yet. Most of it was done with Supercharging. I realized that with my particular driving routine, it did me little good to charge at home. Because of where the chargers are placed on the route I ta ke, I'd still need to charge twice to get home. That will change when they get charging station in Frederick in a couple of months. Then I can charg e at home, charge in Frederick and make it home again.

I think there are something like 20 charging sites around the country that have lines... out of almost 800 stations in the US presently. While Califo rnia has 120 charging stations compared to no more than 40 in other states, they also have most of the congestion. I guess Teslas are pretty popular there.

I remember driving the 500 miles between TN and VA in my truck. I was read y to fall out of the truck by the time I got there. In the Tesla it is a m uch, much nicer trip.

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Rick C

And the gasoline supply 'infrastructure' doesn't suck? Anyone without a good local knowledge has problems finding diesel, and self-serve stations get a LOT of slowpoke customers, at the most inconvenient times.

Oddly, Oregon (which has mandatory attendants at all fueling) works out well.

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whit3rd

Except that they don't sit in a charging station for hours.

If you have a charger when you normally park your car (and it is typically parked for 95% of the time), slow charging isn't a problem.

Public charging stations can't afford to be tied up for hours at a time cha rging just one car.

But you don't seem to be all that successful in avoiding the problem.

On the other hand, your attitude to anthropogenic global warming suggests t hat you real interest is in not feeling anxious, and you value maintaining your ignorant complacence above retaining contact with reality.

Or you could just be hopelessly gullible ...

John Larkin keeps on claiming this without ever providing any evidence that he has ever done it - he seems to confuse persistent tinkering with actual design.

He also seems to think that somebody pointing where he is failing to think things through is resorting "insults and swearing".

DLUNU does go in for swearing from time to time, but "horse blinders" doesn 't qualify. It may be perjorative and insulting, but doesn't qualify as any kind of swearing. And it is difficult to point out that somebody is exhibi ting defective cognition without being somewhat insulting.

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Bill Sloman

Baloney. Ever hear of Gas Buddy?

Really dumb. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to fill a gas tank.

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krw

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