My surroundings are always filled with two voices:
One tells me that it is absolutely inconvenient to travel long distances with a Tesla due to the charging issues;
The other says that charging a Tesla at high-speed service areas is not a problem at all.
However, I believe that paper talk is useless, so I decided to take this trip from Shanghai to Hefei after spending one minute preparing for it.
The distance from Shanghai to Hefei in Anhui province is about 480 km. The actual EPA range of my Model X 90D when fully charged is 390 km. In actual driving, I only need to fully charge the car once halfway through the journey, and according to the route, I can recharge at the superchargers in Wuxi/Changzhou.
Nevertheless, for this trip, I arranged it so that I would not use Tesla’s superchargers halfway through the journey and would instead try to charge at every service area using State Grid’s charging stations to see if they could be charged successfully.
- Can Teslas run long distances?
- How can a Tesla be charged using State Grid’s charging stations?
- Can State Grid’s charging stations based on the 2011 national standard can charge Tesla cars?
- Do all service areas have State Grid’s DC fast chargers?
- What are the speeds of these DC fast chargers?
- What are the charging rates of these stations?
The answers to all of these questions are presented in the video.
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