I love the frunk! Iāve already used it more in four days than Iāve used the Model 3ās in four years!
I'll comment on this. It's $4 per month/$48 per yr, to get the discounted rate. You will get that back and then some the first time you use EA. On a trip from Knoxville to Baltimore I covered close to 4 months of membership just on the trip there. Round trip I covered most of the year in savings.
Where in South Bend was this fast charger? I drive up to St. Joseph often and need some good chargers to use around that area. Thanks and cheers!Ok, we have over 500 miles under our belts with our Lariat and are starting to get the feel for this machine. Weāre seeing avg mi/kWh in the 1.8-2.2 on highway (avg speed of 70 mph) and 2.8-3.4 in town (speeds varying 25-50 mph).
Love, LOVE the hands free āBlue Cruise,ā but still need to play with it a bit more. I like that it truly is hands free so long as youāre looking ahead. I like that it accelerates when changing lanes instead of hesitating like auto pilot does on Tesla. I like that it doesnāt try to maintain the middle of an unmarked/unlined merge lane. I didnāt experience the jockeying that @oneguynick experiencedā¦so no nausea here.
This thing is POWERFUL! I took some friends for a test drive yesterday and even I, as a former Model 3 owner, was BLOWN AWAY by the torque! It continues to pull hard well beyond posted speed limits (which, I, of course didnāt exceed). Case I point: one of my favorite tricks in the Model 3 was to stomp on the āgoā pedal at 40/45 mph and hear the gasps for air from my occupants. Never once did I hear tire squeal from it. The Lightning, on the other hand, spins the fronts when I attempt that. BE FOREWARNEDāmake sure to keep both hands on the wheel; the torque steer threw me for a loop when I was one-handing it. I predict lots of crashes if people arenāt mindful of the power this thing has. Oh, and this was all in āNormalā mode, too
In preparation for the rides yesterday, I took it to a touchfree car wash to clean off some of the bugs and mess from our first trip over the weekend. The āmega power frunkā stayed nice and dry inside, but the interior fenders were splashed/wet. I donāt think itāll be a concern, but as a handyman, I intend to keep tools up there on the daily. (See pics)
Finally, itās going to take some getting used to if youāre coming from Tesla. (We traded our Model 3 in and are no longer Tesla owners). And this is just one use case *with a brand new truck*. I accept my husband and I are early adopters and trust this will get better with time.
We left our cottage in SW MI with enough projected range to get to a DC Fast charger along our route (roughly 50% battery or 139 miles of projected range). When entering I-94, the navigation had us stopping at an EA Charger in Evergreen Park IL with a delta of 20 or so miles. Sunday was a very windy day and we were driving SW into SW windsāmassive headwind. While we got 2.2 mi/kWh going up to the cottage on Saturday, our efficiency was shrinking to 1.6/1.8 during this leg of the journey. As we started driving home, the projected range and destination delta began shrinking significantly.
Hereās where I missed our Model 3. Weād normally top up at a supercharger before hitting the road (our cottage doesnāt even have grounded outlets so charging wasnāt happening there). The supercharger network made traveling so simple in a Tesla. We do lots of road-trips each year and have taken our Model 3 to all of them since purchasing in 2018.
As we were nearing the Indiana state line, the nav system began redirecting us 34 miles in another redirection to a DC Fast Charger along I-80 (we were traveling along I-94). We were basically in a DC Fast Charger dead zone. First, we hopped on PlugShare to see what nearby chargers existed. We found a Chargepoint charger at the next exit and headed that way. Upon arrival, we watched a Mach-E plug into the only CCS at that station. He planned on being there for 20 minutes. Impatience got the better of us so we decided to head to the next nearest āfast chargerā which brought us to a travel stop on I-80 East (yes, opposite from our destination). After 38 minutes, we only mustered 62 miles and plugged in our route home, which still took us farther East to a DC Fast Charger in South Bend. Theyāre, we used 62 or 63 kWh of our 250 kWh balance from the Blue Oval network and did a plug and charge. Tty minutes later we added 142 miles which was plenty to get us home. Whatās typically a 2.5 hour ride, turned into a 4.5+ hour trek home.
I admit I was frustrated. Was it the sunburn? Was I hangry? Did I contemplate pulling over and listing on carsandbids.com? Yes. Itās just the trade-off of being an early adopter in a vehicle thatās still getting used to us.
edit: updated tag for @oneguynick.
What is the temperature? 70's?
My badāit was in Mishawaka at the University Park Mall.
Sunday was quite warm in the mid-80s with gusty SW winds (the direction we were headed). We had the climate at 72Ā° and the seats on the middle ventilation setting.
That is ideal for battery. So for 70 mph 2miles/kWh is achievable and 2.5 miles/kWh is doable for local. This is not bad actually.
Iāve been exceeding 3-3.5 mi/kWh locally, but I drive easy. I even saw it creep over 4 at one point during my errands today.
That's fair...but discount subscriptions is not limited to EA and across all industries(loyalty card programs are the norm).
Wow, cannot wait to drive it.
Figure about 2 miles per kWhr.
