1000 Mile Tesla Road Trip (Iowa to Alabama Coast)
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2024
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In this video, we hit the road again and go on a Spring Break road trip with the Tesla Model Y. 1000 miles from Iowa to Alabama. This is part 1 in a 3200 mile overall trip. Come along for the ride.
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My Tesla Road Trip Emergency Kit:
1. 100 Foot 10 Gauge Wire Extension cord (to use with Tesla Mobile Connector). Let's you reach a 120v outlet up to 125 Feet away.
2. 25 Foot Lectron NACS Extension Cord for Level 2 chargers that might be ICE'd.
FYI this extension cord also works with Tesla's Mobile Connector with any of the 120 volt and 240-volt pigtails.
3. Modern Spare Tire Kit with Jack and Wrenches.
4. Cordless 20v Impact Driver with 21mm Deep Impact Socket for changing tires the easy way.
Remember to keep the charger for the battery in your tool bag with the impact wrench!
5. Extendable 12"-24" Breaker Bar to loosen up stubborn lug nuts. Also a good backup if you forgot to charge up the cordless impact driver's battery before the trip.
6. Torque Wrench to make sure the lug nuts are put back on at 130 Foot Pounds so they don't come loose.
7. Tesla CCS adapter to use on 3rd party chargers, AND Tesla's Mobile Connector Adapter Kit so you can use any 120v/240v Outlet in North America.
This will give you the opportunity in an emergency to rent a parking spot at a trailer park and charge overnight with the shore power hookup outlet.
You can sleep in the car with Camp Mode on and you have access to a restroom / shower building while the car charges up.
If you are creative like me you could come up with an interesting solution with all of these connectors.
Especially when you wake up like me with a 5% SOC on your car at a friend's house because you forgot to charge up the car the night before you got there. 🤦♂️
To make matters worse the nearest supercharger was 58 miles away. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I used the adapter kit with my mobile connector (with one of the 240 volt pigtails) to plug into my friend's dryer Outlet at his house.
I ran the Mobile Connectors Cord out the window and used my Lectron Level 2 25-Foot Extension Cord to reach my car in his driveway to charge. The two cords combined gave me about 50 foot of length.
8. AAA's top tier Membership which covers towing up to 250 miles. Tesla's roadside assistance does not cover far enough IMHO.
9. Useful Apps on Phone like: A Better Route Planner, Plugshare, ChargePoint, EVgo Charger, Electrify America.
Setup accounts with all the 3rd party charger companies AHEAD OF TIME so you don't have to fuss with it on the road.
10. Three-Pack of LED Emergency Flare Pucks that are USB-C Rechargeable.
You can get them on Amazon in a nice little carrying case and you can recharge them in the car as well. They are visible from a FAR distance at night!
11. A couple of 2x6 Wood Planks about two feet long to drive up onto with your flat tire.
This will raise up the flat tire/rim enough so you can get the Jack underneath the car.
EV's sit lower to the ground, and the wood planks will raise it enough so you can get the jack under the car.
12. A Set of Four Jack Rubber Pucks. These look like a hockey puck made out of rubber with a center section that sticks up to go into the hole underneath the jacking points on a Tesla.
These are absolutely necessary to jack up the vehicle! Without them you risk a jack slipping and damaging your high voltage battery pack!
Needless to say that would be a super expensive mistake! 💸💸💸💸
This is in addition to normal emergency supplies you should have in your vehicle. I mainly wanted to cover all of the ones that relate to a EV that you may not have thought of.
Advice from a Professional CDL driver with 1,000,000+ Miles of experience. 😉
I've done 7 long distance trips and I have learned (the hard way) to always select hotels that within 5-10 minutes of a supercharger.
We don't generally say more than 50-60 miles from the next Supercharger. It does require a little more planning - especially when it's cold.
I select hotels that are nice and affordable. In my Camry, I can buy gasoline anywhere.
@@DerekDavis213 Deals can be found, even for more expensive hotels. For example, I stayed at a Hampton Inn for only $55 with a discount card.
They also had two free Tesla destination chargers at the hotel. So I charged all night for free. I set the battery to charge to 100% so I could maximize the next leg of my trip.
Total of 1,250 Miles of driving for only $110 (mix of free supercharging, third party DC chargers, and cheap charging at relatives homes) for the the whole trip.
EV's are roughly 1/3 the cost when paying for the DC fast Chargers. When charging at home, I'm at 1/5 the cost ($0.06 kWh/Night, $0.09 kWh Day rates).
That's cheaper than my 2013 Chevy Spark, which was replaced by my 2023 model y long range.
Although the topic of insurance is a different discussion as EV's are way more expensive to insure!
I really like how I-55 follows the Mississippi River course. It is a pretty area of the country. Cool steering wheel display you have there. Looks sweet. Thx for the vid. I enjoy watching road trip videos.
Great video man! Thank you for sharing. I can’t wait to take the model y on a long trip. I did it with the model 3.
Awesome trip video Jim you guys have a blast keep the videos coming
Great video. I live in Gulf Shores and have been watching your channel for a while. Welcome to lower Alabama. We finally got the supercharger at the wharf open thank God🎉
I‘m looking forward to my first long trip from Berlin to southern France. Save travels.
Nice trip. Hopefully the nav funkiness solved with an update. Well, let’s hit the road!
I might do this in June...thanks for the preview haha
Have fun!
Ah great video, interesting stops I haven't used but will when we head down to Fairhope. (Hope you guys stopped in this little secret Alabama town), only Tesla charger is back up at Spanish Fort. Usually the Best Westerns have Tesla destination charger available. Looking forward to testing FSD on the month trial as well here in Colorado!
Really cool to see the footage from the drone at Cape Girardeau. That stop is only a couple years old and I'm pretty sure they're V3 chargers. I drive by it a dozen times a week. 😁
The utilization has sure gone up it seems in the last year. Easy stop literally at the exit ramp. Only bummer is the gas station closes around 10pm so bathroom and snacks aren't available for late night travelers. The sc is of course still good after that, just no amenities.
Re: Bucees, check out the restrooms! Large and clean! (Always welcome!) The snack & food options are decent too. And lots of chargers. A welcome stop for us along I75 too.
Been to many. Just don't like the crowds.
Great video. What app are you showing on the right of the video displaying driving statistics? I haven't seen anything like that in the official Tesla app.
what software are you using for the information that you superimposed on the screen showing "overall efficiency/Avg. Speed/Overall Change/Avg. Temp" and "charge report" in your videos? Thanks!
Bro 322 is kinda high. Today I was getting 349 on my MYP going 85-90 racing a raptor. He could shake me loose. When I passed him, he had a perplexed look on his face 😂😂😂
Love the video - just have some questions.
How come you charged strictly on a supercharger? Was that the intent of the video?
Wouldn’t it been easier to pick a hotel with destination charger and level 2 charge to 90-95% while you sleep? Or a hotel with a j1772 charger and also charge to ~95%??
@IowaTeslaGuy - what equipment do you use to record your video in your cabin.
Enjoy all Tesla content. I am on "the fence"about getting a Model Y.
On my cross country trips, now in a Lexus GX460, I start with a full tank and stop onece. Typically around 650 miles. Teslas Need A LOT of stops and time for charging....
But you save time the other 50 weeks a year by never going to the gas station and waiting in line. Takes 5 seconds at home to fill up.
I find stopping every 1-2 hours for 10 minutes or so is refreshing, and I physically feel better at the end of the day.
Maybe get a plug-in hybrid. I think Lexus offers one. Edit: they offer a TX Plug-In hybrid.
I know you will miss the quality and feel of a Tesla if you switch. My family has a 2012 RX350 and it is a wonderful car. Heated and Vented seats work better than those in more modern cars. It has large mirrors, it is very quiet, smooth, etc.
Any dealerships with level II or level III chargers near the hotel?
Nice. Hindustan south.
What’s better for long trips, a new Y or a used s ? An s would have some room for a modern spare tire. I’m planning a cross Canada bucket list trip. The S also has a longer range.
I bought a MY LR in December 2023. I've been averaging about 280 MI of range.
This is at 70MPH speed, with the AC Cranked on High Output, and the 600Watt Stereo System jamming the tunes.
Most of my supercharging stops from 20% to 80% have taken about 25 minutes on the 250 KW Chargers.
Very comfortable car IMHO. Under 80 mph its handling is superb. The cars weight faster than that makes itself known quickly! Also it has a ton of storage inside! 👍
I have a modern spare tire in my model y. However the storage area underneath is not big enough to hold the tire.
I rigged up a strap system that utilizes the child seat anchors on the back of the rear seats to make sure the spare tire won't fly around in an accident.
The Modern Spare (it's Jack and wrenches fit in the middle of the rim) includes a nice heavy-duty cover to keep it from getting the inside of your car dirty.
how much was the charging time per stop?
Any thoughts on how FSD (or Auto Pilot) affects the battery pack? I am now demoing the "Supervised" FSD. Enjoy your vacation!
Really hard to tell. I don't think it has much of an impact at all. We use it as much as possible. Thanks for watching!
Autopilot barely makes a dent in battery usage.
The stereo system uses the most power from my observations. Especially when cranked up loud as it's a 600-watt system.
The air conditioning would be second in energy usage.
Really the only time the computer uses quite a bit of battery is when you have Sentry mode running with the car parked, and it has to keep all eight cameras powered up and recording.
I took the FL trip and tried to book my overnight hotel that had a charger.
Did you precondition in the morning after your hotel stays or drove off on a cold battery?
No charger at hotel = he left on a cold soaked battery.
With the car starting preconditioning with a cold soaked battery at the hotel when he left.
I doubt it had time to get fully warmed up before he got to the supercharger.
That definitely would have impacted his charging speed.
@@LordTimelord idk, if I were at a hotel or friends house and had a vehicle that I could precondition the second I get up or before I get in the shower from an app by simply starting the hvac system, I would.
So what happens to your FSD it you get 4 strikes.
I go into Tesla jail and they take it away for 1-2 weeks. After that, I can get it back.
eww the Meridian charger is way back in a mall parking lot. Make sure you stop and take care of your business at a nearby facility before you go to that one unless you want to walk a mile inside the mall.
100%
Road Trip #1 Rule: Bathroom Break before running around. You'll never know when you'll get stuck in traffic!
Waffle House! Hope you got your hash browns Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered and capped. 🙃
You know it!
Excellent way to show us that ev's are actually a worse version of something we take for granted on a daily basis
You don't like Buc-ee's?? 😮😂
Not really. Too busy for my taste.
@@iowatesla but....WALL OF JERKY!!! 😄
Buc-ee's are a zoo. Been to one, haven't felt the need to go to another one.
Just had a bucees experience this week on a 12 hour trip and I didn't like it either. It was a zoo inside and out. Even the interstate exit was intense . The women's bathroom has at least a 10 minute or more line. I just wanted OUT.
I wish we had Buc-ee's in AZ. You know what I avoid? Walmart. I'd rather watch Walmart-people on the Internet funnies
At 0.54 , so many charging stops required.
In my Toyota Camry, I can make a 1000 mile trip with just two 5-minute stops at the gas station.
My Camry has Traffic Aware Cruise Control. I drive the car, but don't have to hold the gas pedal down for 16 hours.