Tesla Model 3 LFP Summer Range Test, It Was Very Questionable… 

For those who travel by EV we already know that you charge to 80%and go until you reach 20%, taking half the time because charging from 80% to 100% takes as long as 20% to 80%. Different world, some learning required.

The title of this video should be "How to not road trip an EV." Waiting for your EV to get to 100% on a road trip is a complete waste of time! This is not a gas vehicle. 100% is only for at your home when you are not waiting for the vehicle to go. Its most efficient to get to a charger at about 5-10%, then charge to 70% and keep moving. Maybe charge 80% if you really need that extra juice. But waiting for just that last 20% will take more time than 0-80%. For that lfp model 3, 10% -> 80% will take 20-25 minutes at a v2. 70% will take about 15 minutes. I would just keep speeds below 85mph. 80mph or below, and you should fine, ignore the people saying go 70 or below, you only do that if you don't think you will make it to your destination based on what the car predicts in maps. Why did you ignore the car telling you to continue your trip and charged to 100%? Then get mad at the amount of time you wasted😂.

I mean, you took off the aero wheel covers so the range will suffer a great deal because of that!

Please do some serious research before doing this again. You made serious mistakes all around. You never charge to 100% on a road trip unless it is completely necessary. You only need to charge a LFP battery to 100% once a week at most. On a road trip, tell the computer where you want to go and then listen to it. It will do all the math for you. Add 5% as a buffer if you really want to.

Charge to 100% once a week. For best road trip times plan to arrive at the next charger with 5-15% remaining charge so probably no more than charging to 80%. If your estimated remaining charge starts to fall too much, then just slow down to the speed limit to stretch the range.

You don't know how to travel efficiently, using the cruise control and setting it based on aerodynamic efficiency you will discover that you sabotaged your own test with lead foot. Above 80 you will find that even the most efficient car uses much more energy.

EV range / efficiency is opposite of ICE. EV gona consume much more energy on steady highway driving at 80mph compared to city stop and go driving. I drive model 3 in heavy bumper to bumper traffic all the time and routinely get over 100% efficiency - more than expected range. Also didn't have aerowheel cover which makes range worse too. Consumption seen here isn't unusual. Its like taking ICE car for MPG test and doing city stop and go driving only - you're just going to get worse end of efficiency range.

I have exactly the same car. i did 220 miles trip winter time and 20% left in the battery. I have no idea how you managed to reach that extremely high power usage.

You should delete this video do more homework on road tripping a Tesla and then make a new video. 1) Don’t charge your car to 100% on road trips. That’s only for daily use at home with the LFP battery and that’s just a suggestion. You only need to do it like once a week. 2) Fastest road trips take place when you drive the car down to 10% and then ride the charging curve only until you have enough to make it to the next charger. 3) Your hogging the charger from someone else when you charge past 80% on a supercharger unless you absolutely have to. So stop doing that. 4) Your Tesla tells you how much to charge at each stop to make it to the next station and you still can change that because it is very conservative. 5) When it’s hot and you drive fast with any vehicle even if it’s gas you go less far. It’s just the gas cars have “higher regular range” and it doesn’t seem like it affects it as much because of it. 6) How often are you driving long distances? If only 1-3 times a year it’s great to have an EV.

You're going 80 MPH...no surprise your consumption is high and your range is low.

Driving 80 to 85 mpg will kill your range. Back off the speed buddy

You should never charge up to 100% on roadtrips, even with a LFP battery. Charge up to 100% once a week when you are at home.

As others have said, you do not charge them to 100% every time, even Tesla tells you when setting the charge limit to do it ONCE per week.

I had similar estimate on a 2021 tesla model 3 standard plus. EPA with the degradation was 230 miles. With 2 passengers, the AC was running full time. Going from phoenix to flagstaff totaled me roughly 130 mile range with +4.1% elevation on average. But I did a night road trip and the range was so much better going from grand canyon to Page. AC is the second biggest power consumer, some say 0.4% but I really doubt it. Difference between night and day drive was almost +30 some miles with the AC at the same temperature with average trip consumption of 229, while day time was 389. When I turned on manual from auto for the AC, with the fan set at 5. The estimate for range was so much more accurate. Return trip however was a different story since it was mostly downhill (neg elevation), it had estimated 245 miles.

Ignore the comments / haters. I really appreciate someone driving like normal and showing us a real life example of an EV road trip. Everyone else here is delusional. 155 miles between charges is still pretty low. I understand speed kills range but sometimes you gotta go 80 on the freeway.

Drag squares with speed. 85mph sustained is a big ask. This is why ICE cars run gearboxes! Reducing your speed to 75mph will have a big impact.

You should really take this down or change the title. This is straight up ignorance.

Anti EV progress fuel!

I think the ac uses 8 mi and hour. Also your last trip, you went from indio to where ? Indio is below sea level. Also you really burn above 80. Also you only need to charge to 80%. 100% at home.

You font need to recharge at 100%!!! That takes way too much time. Every long trip i make i only charge max 10-15 min tops and the vehicle its already sending me on my way

Thanks, this is the information I really wanted... ~85MPH highway speeds in high heat is my normal driving... I will not change how I drive just to buy a specific car - I expect my cars to be able to handle this easily. ~150 mile range at that speed means I would need to take an alternate route to reach a Tesla supercharger with this car, adding 40 minutes to my drive time (mostly due to traffic). That's disastrous for that particular trip (which I take several times a month). What's really problematic are my 75+ mile each-way trips out into the boonies... those speeds are also 80MPH+, but I only have to run these types of trips once or twice a month (though twice this last week...). Going to have to hold on to my Volt forever.

very expensive!

First, I never drive over 70 which by your example really reduces the range and I usually do not set my AC that low and I have the wheel covers on for more aero dynamic efficiency. You made too many mistakes for the average driver as well as the temperature will not be that high on very many trips. I can see Engineering is not your field of experience or education.

So, according to the comments, you can't go fast, have cold air, or take off the wheel covers to get anywhere. No thanks.

Garbage unless conditions are perfect, not to mention the wasted down time to charge every 100 miles. EVs are bullshit.