Videos Teaching the Tesla EV Experience for Charging and Managing Range

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Various readers have expressed concern about running out of charge if they drive an electric car.

The Tesla driving screen will show percentage of charge of miles of charge remaining. The tip is to start thinking about getting recharged when the EV has about 30% of charge or less. This is similar to driving a gasoline car. When I drop below a quarter tank then I will think about getting more gas. There are some gasoline cars that have about 2 gallons of gas left even when the fuel gauge says empty. However, cars like my Subaru will actually run out of gas when the gauge shows empty.

On longer road trips, the Tesla will tell you where to go for a charge and provide information like you will have 10% charge left when you reach the charging station.

Think of it like making sure an important smartphone or laptop needs to stay charged when you need it for important business reasons. If you were are oncall for an important job.

Most Tesla owners with houses will be able to charge overnight at home.

There are Tesla beginner videos that explain the charging light colors and how to connect to a charger.

There are various sites that give realtime status and mapping for charging stations including Tesla charging, but as indicated the Tesla vehicle will guide a user to recommended charging.

Most Tesla public chargers will charge speed at up to 250KW but new version 4 (some in Europe) will have up to 350KW of charging and new Semi truck chargers will have 750KW to megawatts of charging speed.

Tesla has the best and most reliable charging network in North America by far.

If you drive 18,000 miles per year with a gas car (assuming 30 mpg), then you would need 600 gallons of gas each year. In California, this is about $3000 per year. Tesla owners mostly charge at home, which would have no added costs if they have fully paid off solar power. Charging overnight in the USA tends to be 10-20 cents per kwh. Tesla Model Y and Model 3 get about 5 miles per kWh. 18000 miles would need 3600 kWh. If this was 20 cents per kWh then it would cost $720.

5 thoughts on “Videos Teaching the Tesla EV Experience for Charging and Managing Range”

  1. “Most Tesla owners with houses will be able to charge overnight at home.”
    Until about half the neighborhood is charging … then the blue fireballs start dancing around the local electrical substation.

  2. Rented a Tesla in Dallas, liked driving it but just to downtown and back to the airport didn’t need to charge.

    Looked at renting one for an upcoming trip to Maine, looked at where Tesla superchargers are supposed to be and went – I’m not sure that’s going to work so rented an ICE vehicle for a few dollars more.

    What would have helped. Probably an AI assistant that could walk through my itinerary and give me charger locations and expectations for when I should consider diverting from my route to recharge.

    Maybe Tesla has it, but didn’t come up in the search results.

  3. Well, sure, that much is obvious.

    But the question remains, what do you do if you DO run out of charge between chargers? You have to resort to a tow truck? Not like some passing car can provide you a box of D cells…

    With an ICE car, all you need is somebody to bring you a gas can with a couple gallons of gas.

    “Tesla owners mostly charge at home, which would have no added costs if they have fully paid off solar power. ”

    Whoa, talk about apples and kumquats.

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