Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:03:17 +0000
Part 3 of Tess’ adventures in the land of coal. Driving an electric vehicle means that you have to plan ahead. One day, high-speed chargers will be ubiquitous, but we aren’t there yet. We were invited to display our Tesla Model 3 at the upcoming Gladstone Ecofest and thought that it might be nice to […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:45:27 +0000
These are the signs that met us as we started our wedding anniversary stay at Rice’s Log Cabins in the Bunya Mountains. The dingo notice was on the fridge in the cabin. The wild dog notice was at the beginning of the nature walks in the national park. Although we saw (and photographed) lots of […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:33:53 +0000
We recently had the extreme pleasure, bucket list quality, of traveling from Tampa Bay, Florida, to Austin, Texas, to report on the Tesla Giga Texas Cyber Rodeo grand opening celebration for CleanTechnica. The frosting on the trip was driving to Austin in our new Tesla Model X Plaid delivered on Valentine’s Day. With less than […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:25:18 +0000
Yeppoon (Queensland) gets pretty hot in February, so Arthur Hunt and his wife decided to go on a road trip to visit family in Tasmania in 2021. It’s 2,600 km away. Not only would the distance be an issue, but there was a Covid-19 outbreak in New South Wales and Victoria, through which they would […]
Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:00:04 +0000
I’ve been driving an EV for some time now. But my 2011 Nissan Leaf, while dependable and fun, is a first-generation EV with limited range and has tethered me to an 80-mile radius of home. So, when I was planning to take a road trip from my home in Kentucky to visit my almost 94-year-old […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:24:28 +0000
How do you get your car serviced when you live over 700 km from the Tesla service centre? What is long-distance Tesla servicing? Here is Arthur Hunt’s recount of his first service in Queensland, Australia. By Arthur Hunt As planned, the first service on our Tesla Model 3, after 2 years and 35,000 km, has […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:54:25 +0000
With 2 Million Teslas Sold, Is the Tesla Supercharger Network Keeping Up? We’ve recently driven our Tesla Model 3 from our daughter’s house near Charlotte North Carolina, to Salt Lake City Utah. Just now we finished the last leg of our transcontinental Model 3 adventure on February 14, 2022, driving from the Salt Lake City, […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:45:57 +0000
During my first real road trip with my Model Y, I learned a lot of cool stuff.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:28:56 +0000
2019 has been the year of epic Tesla road trips and adventures. We have seen Teslas exploring in the Arctic Circle, all over Norway, in the Scottish highlands, and pretty much all over the world
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:41:21 +0000
The latest Tesla software update (2019.36.1) has unlocked the full DC charging potential of the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus (SR+). The Model 3 SR+, with this update, has a 170 kW charging peak, up from the previous 100–105 kW peak. This means that the SR+ battery charge rate (C-rate) is now approximately in line with that of the Model 3 Long Range variants, albeit scaled for the different battery size