you
next running low on charge you find yourself just a little bit short of
making it to the next super charger or your stop what can you do to make it
well number one slip common sense slow down slower you go lost power
you're gonna use and ideally 24 miles an hour you'll squeeze a lot more range out
of that pack turn off unnecessary z' like heat AC high drain devices so if
you got that mini-fridge plugged into your 12 volt socket shut that off try
not to run the steer don't run the steering wheel heater if you don't need
to don't run anything that you don't need to run but if it's nighttime please
leave your headlights on I've seen a few people shut their headlights off to try
and make it to charging stations once the battery pack in the in a Tesla gets
below a certain point it stops charging the 12-volt battery so at that point
your headlights aren't drawing any power from the traction pack at all anyways
it's drawing it from the 12 volt which eventually will die but chances are if
you're still driving your traction pack will die before the 12 volt anyways just
worry about driving safely that's number one always worry about safety of the
first instead of using your heat if it's very cold out try and just use your seat
heaters once again those run off the 12 volt as well not your traction pack now
you hear now your cabin heater and air conditioning those run through the DC DC
converter which will draw power from the traction pack
although if you're only a couple miles away even if it's bloody freakin cold
out I'm pretty sure you could probably survive at least four or five or ten
minutes without any heat or even it without any air-conditioning on if it
means making it or not of course touching again draft a semi considerable
power reduction I know this is going to be repetitive but I'm just gonna
reinforce this stuff another thing is look for a non supercharger charging
station that might be in route such as a Tesla destination charger Tesla
destination Chargers will show up on your center screen map don't be afraid
am i late no I'm not don't you know don't be afraid if it's an emergency to
just show up at a destination charger the most places have talked to
definitely understand if you're having problems and if there's someplace you
can patronize patronize them a little bit you know buy a cup of coffee drink
or even just offer to pay for the power you're using using it's better than a
tow truck even a even a slow slow charge point or something stupid slow you know
fifteen or thirty minute emergency charge on a slow station is enough to
give you an extra 10 miles 15 miles that can make the difference between sitting
on the side of the road waiting an hour or more for a tow truck to tow into a
supercharger or home and save you a ton of money on towing as well another
option is if you have it it's kind of long the same lines of if you need it
100% do it 100% spend a just a few extra minutes longer
and a supercharger even if the charge speeds are tapered down a bit and the
cars nav says oh you got more than enough to make it remember cold weather
heat it could be road construction accidents you never know what's gonna
pop up an extra two or three or even five minutes at a supercharger can mean
the difference between arriving with ten twenty thirty my extra miles or even
forty extra miles to spare or coming up a half mile short of your supercharger
destination must have adapters some things that I'd recommend that every
Tesla owner have with them and I don't just mean at home I mean with them now
we all know the the Tesla UMC comes with a 1450 adapter for most people this is
what you're going to be using on a daily basis for charging a 1450
this will charge the card up to 440 amps at 240 volts that comes standard with
the vehicle and the UMC also you get 120 volt adapter if you're in North America
and Japan this will be maximum charge rate will be 12 amps 120 volts you also
come with a J 1772 adapter this allows you to plug in at pump public
standardized charge a 1772 charging stations such as charge points those are
must-haves especially the 1770 1772 adapter these are must-haves another
must-have is the CHAdeMO adapter personally it's not as useful as it once
was but if you have the extra 450 the blow and actually I'm charging on China
most station right now as I'm filming this and I've already gained back fifty
seven miles I plugged in about two minutes before this video started so
I've gained fifty seven miles in twenty two minutes twenty two and a half
minutes yes it is a little pricey but there's a lot of chatting most stations
around at least now there aren't nowadays there are not as useful as it
once was before there were a lot more superchargers I mean the supercharger
networks just grown exponentially in the last couple of years but I still find it
extremely useful I mean right now the Oak Creek supercharger actually they
just completed most of the work today and they're waiting for the utility to
turn it on but it's offline and I did so much driving today and I still got more
to do I needed something fast without having to drive an hour to the next
supercharger station we got a couple of these China most stations around
Milwaukee County so I just stopped at one thankfully this one's free GM arm
corporate mark corporate headquarters for GM own marketing thank you guys
great group of people here but it is amazing adapter to have for road trips
it's another one of those that you won't need it very often but when you do it is
great to have another one that's nice to have
I think they just brought this one back I've had this one for a while and I mean
adapters are cheap these are about 45 bucks from Tesla you can either may even
make your own but I recommend if they have the adapter get the proper one from
them before making your own adapters this one's a 1430 it's pretty much the
same as the 1450 the difference is 1430 will only will plug into 30 amp 240 volt
outlets and the 1450s for 50 amp 240 volt outlets I have it so I carry it a
must have and have to absolute must ABS for the road trippers
huh someone missing my 20-amp well I missing which one is this this is
the oh that's right I never ordered I made my own adapter that's right
that's a they just it was a more recent I made my own adapter before they
released it but another one is the 20 amp 120 volt adapter you got the the 15
amp which permits up to 12 amps of charging 120 volt you have the 20 amp
which permits up to 16 amps because you can only use 80% of a outlets output for
sustained usage now most commercial businesses will have 20 amp outlets not
15 you'll find 15 and most residential 20 amp at commercial the 20 amp adapter
will provide up to 33 30 or 33 percent more power to the to the car so it's a
30 32 33 30 33 percent increase in charge rate overnight especially if
you're in a hotel that can make a huge difference now there's this is the 520
adapter and this is the 515 adapter there's a new one out I don't have it
that's the 620 adapter or is it 6:15 can't remember it's either 6:15 or 6:20
that is designed for 240 volts such as what is found at hotel rooms for air
conditioners so most of your hotel air conditioners are gonna be plugged into a
620 outlet now before they came out with that I actually made my own conversion
adapter because the car doesn't care if it's 120 or 240 going in the adaptors
tell the car how many how much amperage they can draw does it matter if it's 20
amps at 240 or 20 amps at 1:20 so I plug my 110 volt adapter into
there now I can plug in on the hotel air-conditioning outlet that has come in
handy I've only used it once but but one time I had it I was glad to have it and
in other cases I use this for my welder long story so some great must-haves
there remember these are only like 45 bucks you're already spending you know
60 70 80 90 100 150 thousand on a car spend another thousand and you can have
all the adapters they have to offer
now another recommendation I can make is have a second
UMC unless you have alternate charging at home we see our joint I may get into
that later I'm getting to that later let me finish up this okay towing trailers
is the next subject tips for towing trailers and Stila
making it to your next stop slow down again slow down to stay within your
weight limit for your vehicle don't over load your vehicle drag not weight is the
biggest range reducing factor personally factor in about a 50% reduction in range
as a minimum for towing trailers so if you have a newer let's say say your car
has a 300 mile range rated range and the trailer factor in getting no more than
150 miles on that charge towing a trailer does reduce your range that much
it's insane do a couple practice drives locally to get a feel for it slow down
55 miles an hour you will save so much power towing a trailer over going at 7
miles an hour 80 trust me I've already done this done the I've already gone
through all the headaches and whatnot for you guys all so you don't have to
and I do have videos on my channel up talking it in more detail about the
trailers please take a peek