A Better Way To Road Trip In Your Tesla

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Tesla, there is an app you should get. Hello, I'm happy, welcome to my channel. If you're new here, I'm sharing my experience as a Tesla Model 3 owner to help new and future owners learn. Learn more about this car, if you find my videos helpful and informative, please consider subscribing A few weeks ago I went on an impromptu

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driving from Los Angeles to the Fremont Tesla factory. This was the longest road trip I've taken with my car so far. I had a great time meeting the folks from the Silicon Valley and East Bay Tesla Owners Club for this trip.

I decided to use an app called Better Route Planner to plan my charging stops instead of using Tesla's native navigation system after using this app. For my road trip, I highly recommend anyone going on a road trip to use this, so come with me on my road trip. Today is a road trip day and I am very excited because it is the furthest I will drive my car. Since I had it two years ago, I'm going to go to the Fremont factory, well, not today, I'm going to the hotel next to the factory and tomorrow I'll be at an impromptu meeting of the Tesla owners club in Silicon Valley, it was last minute, suddenly.

I decided to drive over and join in the fun, so I'm super charging right now and I wanted to show you what I brought, so yeah, the Tasmanian cooler, why do I have it here in the car instead of in the trunk? Because I decided to carry this and store my sodas, so I wanted to have easy access to my water and green tea. I also have snacks on the way so I'm ready for this road trip and normally when you go on a road trip and I use Tesla's built-in navigation, so if I go to my calendar and this is a hotel, I go to the Tesla navigation will automatically calculate on a long road trip where it will stop to recharge and then continue on its way, but a lot of times it's reducing it pretty close to around 10 percent and when I get to the hotel I'll only have 16 left, so I really want keep my battery's state of charge at around 15 when I get to a supercharger and when I get to the hotel I want.

This needs to be 30 percent because I want to enable sentry mode while my car is parked at the hotel and as you know sentry mode would drain the battery much more than just having a car parked there, so instead of using the scheduler Tesla's integrated travel system. I'm going to use an app, a really nifty app that I highly recommend called best route planner. This is a best route planning app. They also have a website version that you can use. I will navigate from the Tesla design studio where I am. super charging right now to the fifth in fremont and all I have to do is press this, you can set this up, so I'm actually charging up to 95 and I'm hoping to leave around two in the afternoon.

He recommends I go to the Kettleman City Supercharger, which is a supercharger I wanted to visit anyway and says I would only need to charge there for about 16 minutes from 24 to 63 percent. That supercharger right now is not very good. busy, it gives you the weather conditions and the estimated cost of supercharging and then I'll go on my way and go through the Hollister supercharger and charge for another 13 minutes from 15 to 48 and then when I get to my destination I would have 30 percent of Battery. on the left so this app is really wonderful because on a road trip you want to get to

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destination as quickly as possible so this app will really optimize your trip load and tell you where you can make your pit stop very quickly, like when you are Going to a gas station, this app can go to the settings and it is free and you can use it.

However, I am testing their premium features for this trip, so for the premium features you can check out the availability of the charger right here, the free version you have. This has been disabled and will also give you real-time traffic. It uses real-time traffic data to calculate your trip time and also has real-time weather conditions in the premium feature. The premium feature costs five dollars for a monthly subscription or you pay. for an entire year for fifty dollars, so if you take a road trip once a month, it would be worth it. Kettleman City, here we go, your destination is on the right, okay, I arrived at the Kettleman City supercharging station.

This is one of the largest super charging stations in the country so I think these should be the v3s yes up to 250 kilowatts okay so let me park in the shade it's 5:02pm m. and I've been driving since 2:11, so 2 hours and 50 minutes. It's 102 degrees outside, that's super hot and I left Hal Thorn with 95 battery, now I'm at 26. So let's see what the best route planner says. I need to charge for about 18 minutes to 64 here. Let's go ahead and do that and I'll take a quick break and we'll check the room, but before we go to the room, it went up to 255 kilowatts for a fraction of a second, now it's stable at a charging speed of 250 kilowatts.

Oh. At this rate my biobrake will be pretty fast, but that's okay, I enjoy seeing these v3 superchargers, so let's go, yeah, this is huge, a lot of posts. Hello, well the room is closed unfortunately so I can't review it, but. I'm trying to take a look inside a little bit, well a

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planning app says I would only need to charge up to 64 percent and it should take about 18 minutes, but right now it's been 11 minutes of supercharging v3 and I'm already at the 65 percent. of battery so I just walked through the lounge which was closed and then walked to the bathroom came back took a quick photo and now I have to go it's at 65 so yeah this v3 overcharge is incredibly fast and I'm just charging for 11 minutes.

I think I'm going to let it go up to 68 or maybe 70 just so I can take a breather so yeah this is like a gas station which is why people complain that it takes a long time to charge a car on a road trip . v3 superchargers and the availability of all the superchargers along the road and that is completely debunking that myth so don't be afraid to get a

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and go on a trip. Everything will be fine at the next stop in Hollister. I'm about to get to Hollister. supercharger and this is a cute little place, they have these fruit stands and the little town restaurant.

I like this place. 500 feet, turn right onto Pacheco Pass Road, the destination will be on the left, let's see where the superchargers are. Now turn right onto Pacheco Pass. I walk well, now your destination is on the left on the left oh I see you, it's back here this is nice I like this place there aren't many stalls or not, I'm wrong wow, there are quite a few stalls, okay, let me park that one that no one else is using and that I'm not going to share with anyone else, okay I got here right now, it's 701 so I've been driving for another hour and 40 minutes and 122 miles so let's see what a

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planner says routes. for 13 minutes up to 48 percent fine, so I started charging at 702 with 23 battery.

I want to go to the bathroom at that gas station convenience store. I walked around the convenience store for a few minutes. I went out and it was 7 12. and my battery was already charged to 54 initially I just wanted to charge up to 50 so it was like 10 minutes and it charged 31 like that on the supercharger so wow this is really fast like I said it's like the gas station pit stop. The stop is super quick, let's get back on the road and get to the hotel. I arrived at the hotel, guess what it's 8:10 p.m. and I left the Hawthorne Supercharger at 2:11 in the afternoon, so I'm one minute shy of six hours. of driving, including two stops to recharge, was pretty incredible, so since leaving Hollister I have driven 55 and a half miles in 53 minutes and so far at this stage of the trip I have driven 358 miles and consumed 94 kilowatt hours of battery, so This best eyebrow planning app is great because it really optimized, like I said, your trip to reduce the charging time needed and to make sure you get to your destination with the amount of battery charge you want, so I still have the 32 for hundred. of battery left and I initially wanted to arrive with 30 left so I can enable sentry mode in the parking lot when I park my car overnight before going to the free assembly factory and overcharging my car tomorrow before the meeting, so yeah.

Check out this app, it's really amazing, even the free version is great, but like I said, if you road trip a lot, I recommend that maybe the month you're traveling you do the five dollar subscription and get the premium features or if you road trip almost every weekend you'll definitely get that fifty dollar a year subscription so I'll go check into the hotel and get some sleep and tomorrow will be more fun see you in the morning oh yeah one more thing I want. mention is the Tasmanian cooler so I took this bottle of water out of the cooler before I got into my hotel room and it's still really cold so after about seven hours of being in the cooler this is pretty impressive if you're outdoor. person and you go camping or do a lot of outdoor activities.

I highly recommend the Tasmanian Ice Box. It fits well in the trunk of your model 3 and works very very well as you can see the birthplace of Joy Mobile and this is great, it's great. being able to bring her back here after having her for two years, so I'm wondering. Oh, I'm seeing people from Tesla Silicon Valley and East Bay Group and I'm going to tune in, so this is going to be fun, guys, let's see. I've set this to 95 percent and I'm starting with 23 battery charge, so it went up to over 200, not 250, because my battery's state of charge isn't that low, but that's okay.

I'm going to let it charge up to maybe a hundred percent while I can because we have to drive to Oakland and then have lunch with the Tesla, Silicon Valley, and East Bay ownership group, and then I'm going home, so uh, it's well, I actually left the meeting early because it was so hot and I was getting dizzy, so I came to the lunch place first, which is the best burritos on the Oakland coast and their store is right there. This place is actually owned by one of the Easterners. The founders of the Bay Tesla Oven Owners Club and I had an impromptu meetup here in December 2019 when I had to work in San Francisco and met a lot of Silicon Valley and basically Tesla owners in the Bay Area, so I had a great time and I'm having some of the delicious ones. fish tacos for before you hit the road so there it's delicious delicious I'm going to eat and unfortunately I didn't get to meet some people at the Tesla Fremont factory just because I was getting hungry and dizzy next time I guess , but this has been a really fun road trip, a super impromptu trip, I'll see you on the road.

I just got to this ramen diablo plaza supercharger and it's actually a 72 kilowatt urban. Charger site let's see how much I need to charge this in 9 minutes up to 85 so yeah I'm at 75 right now so even though this is at a slower speed it's charging at 60 kilowatts right now I don't mind will take too. long, so this is just a quick resupply, almost a resupply before we get to Kettleman City. I get to Kettleman City and I actually only have 15 batteries left and it's almost 6 o'clock. It's still very hot, 107 degrees Fahrenheit. and I'm going to do the v3 super charge and we'll be on our way, but let me check what the app says.

Let's see, it charges fine for 31 minutes up to 84, so yeah, I'll be here for a while. but I think with the v3 supercharge it will probably get up to 80 percent in about 20 minutes, so here we go, let's see how quickly it will go up to 253 kilowatts. I watched it for a second and now it's stabilizing at 250. If I set this to only charge up to 90, it will actually only take 35 minutes to charge, it's 6:36 PM. m. and started charging at 6:00 p.m. m., so it took me 36 minutes to go from 15 to 90 battery. I decided to let it charge up to 90 percent and now let's go ahead and navigate to the supercharger in the Tesla design studio.

I just got to the Hawthorne Supercharger, the starting point of this trip, and right now it's 901, so it's funny it'll be back in a minute. Less than six hours into the trip, I left on the 302 and this included two supercharge stops, one 10 minutes and one 36 minutes, and it was taxiing at a fairly high speed on the way back, so it consumed a lot more energy. Let's see this whole journey. This is the whole. trip card 782 miles traveled and 208 kilowatt hours of battery power and the average watt hours per mile is 265 so that concludes my road trip, the longest road trip I have done so far in my model 3 to the Fremont and Oakland factory and I hope you enjoyed your trip with Joy Mobile returning to its place of origin.

You can visitBetter Route Planner.com to sign up or simply download a better route planning app on your mobile devices to start using it if you are interested. Check out my other road trips, you can check out the playlist right here. Thank you very much for watching, don't forget to subscribe. See you next time and God bless you.