Leawood911:
ModelS currently gets that on the highway at 70 mph. Level 3 superchargers @250 amps peak at 1000 miles per hour. So this would be on a planet in our solar system. Plus or minus 10 minutes or 30 miles.
The point is that you are spending a ton of extra money and bypassing lots of safety and convenience in exchange for a few minutes not fueling. Meanwhile you don’t count all the time you constantly go for a drive to get gas. Having lived with an EV and being a fan of long road trips I would take the Tesla if the charge time was double.
You may have a point when it comes to cost of power in Europe making the Tesla less attractive but in my experience recharging vs refueling is much faster and cheaper overall.
I have only one road trip of experience so far. Low air temperatures, extra drag from active precipitation and some drag-coefficient corruption on the way home (crusty snow partial covering on some body panels) reduced the range by 15-20%. The only Tesla Level-3 charger I used was a 150 kW version. The charging rate peaked at 135 kW (according to the dash display) and trailed off to 50ish kW as the battery "topped off". It took 30 minutes each of the two times we used it (once going, once returning). Dry, Summer weather would eliminate one of the stops.
So, ... we "wasted" 20-25 minutes two different times on our road trip. It turned a 5.5 hour round trip time into a 6.3 hour commute. In the grand scale of things, not too bad.
Depending on how one values "wasted" time, an extra several hours divided among several yearly long-distance trips seems a small price to pay for never visiting petrol stations the entire rest of the year (charge overnight in my own garage). With the density of existing Tesla Level-3 chargers, it's a no-brainer for me. The density of CCS/J1772 Level-3 chargers (Electrify America, et al) is not satisfactory at the moment and using a Taycan for the same trips is not attractive at all.
EVs are already the best city/commuter solution. Some day, they'll be very attractive all around.
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Mike
918 Spyder + Taycan Turbo + Tesla Roadster 1.5 & Model S P100D AP2 + BMWs (Z8 + 3.0 CSi) + Bentley Arnage T