- Alright guys, so I said we're gonna go for a ride
and we're gonna hop in the model three.
The idea is, can we get a full 310 miles
out of a full charge on the model three?
So I have Tes. I charged it up fully last night.
We're at exactly 310 right now.
We're gonna hop on the freeway.
Go the speed limit and see what we get.
Stay tuned.
And if we make it all the way, we'll end up in Las Vegas.
It's actually almost exactly 310 miles.
So
if we get exactly the rated range,
we'll run out of juice maybe right outside the town.
And for the record, we do have a company lined up
with our own tow truck and all that.
So this isn't like some kinda prank video
or any dumb thing like that.
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Okay, so we're
in
near Joshua Tree.
We went 139 miles.
We have 133 estimated remaining.
So we're not gonna get anywhere near 310
or even 305 and we kind of officially started the trip.
The question is
if we had a big elevation change on the way here,
will we gain all of that back?
Because if so, then this may actually work out.
But as of right now about half way in,
it looks like we're only gonna get about 270 miles or so.
So we'll see.
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Alright guys, so we're here Twentynine Palms Supercharger,
as just to kind of stop.
We were tryin' to think this was half way
and then half way back to San Diego.
We've got 90 miles left of charge
and we've traveled 189 miles so far.
Don't think we're gonna make it all the way back.
And we're not charge here.
So we're just stoppin' in
to kinda mark this as a turn around point.
So we'll see what happens.
The watt hours per mile seem to be pretty good.
But we're not getting the range out of it.
And I don't know if that's because of the
lowering and the rims, or anything else, but yeah--
More to come.
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- Alright guys.
We just got back from lunch
and we went from 88 miles to 67 miles of degradation
in about an hour, hour and a half.
Our goal was to make it down to Temecula,
but I don't know if we're gonna get it.
So as of right now, it looks like
we're gonna get about 267 miles out of 310 mile charge
that we started with this morning.
So a bit of a difference there.
We'll see how far we actually get and then what happens.
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So I know,
when you get close to zero,
it limits your speed and all kinds of things
start to shut down because it wants to maximize.
So we'll see what happens here.
I mean, 18 miles away is pretty quick pretty soon.
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Seven miles.
Alright.
Zero miles, we're officially at 279.
Finally got the warning, "Battery power too low."
We're not quite dead yet.
But,
about 35 miles an hour is as fast as we can go right now.
So my foot is all the way down on the gas.
They have nuts about it so...
We may make it to the supercharger, but...
Okay, so that's... It's officially dead.
We're here.
This is probably a bad place to park in between two cars.
Wow.
Okay so I gotta think that's it.
I think we did it.
The hazards are on.
Now we have to call our tow truck, and see what they say.
We're kind of in the lane
which is probably not the best place to be.
I am surprised that it's still on.
Alright so we're dead in the water here
at...
- [Cameraman] Wipers are off.
- ... 281.1 miles with the watt hours per mile of 267.
And we spent 75 kilowatts, kilowatt hours exactly.
So that goes--
I wonder, I thought it was an 80 kilowatt hour battery.
And we really-- There weren't too many hills.
This was like a pretty mellow drive so
there's a real world range for you.
And we were in autopilot,
doing the speed limit on us the entire way
with very little other driving so...
Yeah, I tell ya that's a real world test.
Now, we just see what happens,
and how you get out of this mess.
Stay tuned for that.
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