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I drove 2000 km in a single day, on a number of occasions, when I was younger. I don't see how anyone could do it in less than 3 days with this many charge stops.

I had no idea the range of electric cars was so short. I expected that they'd do better at cruising speed on the highways, because the mpg in my car goes up as I get up to 70 MPH. Apparently a Tesla Model 3 is only good for 289 miles at that speed before giving up the ghost.

13*40 --> 520 miles is what I'd expect to get out of our car.




Electric cars tend to be the opposite as far as highway vs city MPGs. Range at 80MPH is far worse than at lower speeds because of air resistance. On the other end of the spectrum, around town they do better because of regeneration capturing a lot of the stop and go that kills gas car range.




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