My family and I will be heading to Southern California near the end of June for a family get together to honor the recent passing of my father in May. This will be the first long trip for the Y, which is about 380 miles each way. Just like my Polestar, the Y has a built in trip planner that calculates (very accurately I may add) if I'll need to make any stops for charging, the amount of time I'll need to charge each stop. This is based on all types of calculations including traffic patterns, weather and road conditions etc. With the Polestar, I have to make two stops, the first is a 15 minute charge, and the second stop is a 35 minute charge. Since it's about a 7 hour drive, I use these stops to use the restroom, stretch my legs and grab a coffee or a bite. I usually end up at my final destination at 23 to 26 percent SoC.

So I was curious what this same trip would look like with the Model Y, so I put my brothers address in the trip planner. From a 90 percent SoC, I would still need to make two stops, but this time it's 20 minutes for the first stop and 10 minutes for the second stop. I would end up being in the 20 percent SoC range when I arrive. Another advantage of the owning a Tesla...there is a supercharger network with fifteen 250 kW chargers about a mile from my brothers house. The closest Electrify America to my brothers house is about 14 miles from his house!

Since I don't have free charging with Tesla like I have with the Polestar, I calculated the charging costs, and it's about 0.05 cents per mile, or rounded off, $20 for a 380 mile trip!

 

Do you bring your charging cable with you so you can charge at his house (using lower voltage obviously)? Or will you just occasionally super charge in so Cal? I can't remember if you installed the Tesla system at your house which then lets you keep the other cable in your car with you at all times and do slow charges using a standard plug.

 

Yes I have the mobile charger, I'll probably do a combination of super charging and plugging in at his house. At some point he's going to install a 240v circuit and NEMA 14-50 outlet. He needs to install a sub panel as his current panel is full, but he needs to find an electrician that won't gauge him

 

Amirza, how do the Polestar and Tesla compare in terms of the deceleration experience (one pedal driving)? Are they pretty similar in how much/little you remove your foot pressure and how quickly each car slows down? I've gotten very used to it in the Tesla - for some reason to me it feels more intuitive and it actually feels weird going back and driving our LX.

 

It's very similar between the Polestar and the Y. In the Polestar it has 3 settings, so you can dial it down a notch.

Same here, when I drive our Sienna, I forget that I have to use the brakes! I have to readjust. OPD is so much better once you get adjusted to it, IMHO of course

 

Yesterday we finally got to take the Y out on a longer trip to Oakland. About 45 miles each way. About 5 of those miles was street driving and the other 40 miles I was averaging 75 MPH. Total energy used was 13 kWh to our destination. That's 0.29 kWh per mile, 29 kWh/100 miles. 33.7 kWh is a gallon of gas, which means that I'm using less than a gallon of gas every 100 miles! Compared to the Polestar, that car averages about 32 kWh/100 miles. I also want to add that we had 4 adult passengers.

I would have never in my lifetime imagined a 4,555 lbs (curb weight) mid-sized SUV with 425 HP that can do 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds that shames a Prius in efficiency. My next efficiency test will be our trip to SoCal, where road conditions are not as good, lots inclines etc

 

We have a home in Petaluma, 90 miles from our home in Los Gatos, across the GG and up to the wino country. The GS takes premium so say $40 round trip. The Tundra uses rag, but at 16 mpg it's over $50.
I charge the Model 3 with solar and make the Petaluma trip with ease. If I started with say, 130 to 160 mile range, I would charge for $10 somewhere and have plenty of juice.

 

The new car looks good. I like it in black.

 

Thanks, I've alway loved Black. It can get hot in the summer, but thankfully I can remotely cool it down before I get into it!

 

My daughter will be heading to San Diego tomorrow to attend her friends graduation from UC San Diego on Saturday. She told us only last week, so plane tickets are pretty pricey. Plus she would need to get a rental car (or Uber) which would make this trip well into the $1K territory. The trip is about 456 miles, and we didn't want her to take her Bolt, which only charges at 55 kW max, and we also didn't want her to have to deal with Electrify America. So we did what any good parent would do...have her take the Model Y. It will be interesting to get her perspective when she returns on Monday

 

It's sort of a no-brainer decision IMO 👍

 

As I mentioned yesterday, my daughter left for San Diego this morning in the Y. One of the benefits.... you can track the car in the app, get it's location, see how fast it's going, what temp the HVAC is set to, and destinations set in the map, all in realtime:




I can even see what she's listening to. You can bet 100 percent her mother is in full stalking mode

 

She's speeding already 😄

 

Actually 68 mph is ok, but i just checked, and she's currently doing 81 MPH right now . When her mom sees that, she's going to get a call from her LOL! If she sticks to 80 mph, that should be ok as Highway Patrol usually goes after people doing 90 plus

 

80 MPH (or 20+ MPH over a posted speed limit), for many years, used to get you a Reckless Driving Charge in my state (VA)....a serious offense. Recently, it has been raised to 85 MPH.