2015 Tesla Model S P85D Road Test | Edmunds.com
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2015 Tesla Model S P85D Road Test | Edmunds.com
Edmunds tests the 691-horsepower, all-wheel-drive 2015 Tesla Model S P85D.
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There is no issue with charging times whatsoever. I only charge at home and at night. I have NEVER used a public charging station nor have I ever needed to and i have NEVER ran out of charge. You would have to be a complete dumb*ss to run out of range or purposely do it because there is no possible way you can legitly run out.
Model S greatest car ever made, cant wait till i get mine soon!
therefore, this car is the best choice if you drive in the city or nearby.
While a Tesla presents challenges for long-distance trips that make the car a dodgy proposition for people who do not also have an ICE (internal combustion engine) car, its range is more than adequate for the great majority of driving the great majority of us do -- even assuming that its real range is only about 75% of the advertised range, or 190 miles a day.
In fact, I have ordered a Tesla P85D because my daily driving will soon average MORE than it currently does as I am building a house about 12 miles further out into the countryside than my current house. I want the benefit of the lower energy costs of recharging a battery compared to filling a gas tank for my daily errands and socializing. (My local electric company has not raised its rates in six years, while gas prices have bounced all over the place. At my current electric rate and current local gas prices, I will drive the Tesla for the equivalent of paying about $1.26 a gallon for gas.)
Before ordering the car I checked the mileage from my new house to the furtherest away semi-local place I have driven in the past four years. It was 39 miles. I could make that trip, detouring to pick up friends, doing some visiting, and hitting a few stores more or less along the way and still have plenty of mileage left in a day. And that's assuming I didn't return home amidst all this running around (which I often do), where I could add another 29 miles of range for every hour I have the car plugged in to my garage. And that's even without investing in the dual charger that would double that charging rate.
I tried and tried and could not come up with a scenario where the Tesla's "true" range would be inadequate for me on anything other than a long road trip. As it happens, there are Tesla Superchargers along the interstate routes I have traveled on my past six long-distance trips. So I could actually manage those trips well enough in the Tesla if I didn't mind a 30-40 minute recharging stop every couple of hours. If I want more flexibility than that, I will have my ICE minivan on hand.
All the much-discussed "range anxiety" of owning a Tesla would probably not trouble nearly as many people if they would sit down and really analyze their driving.
Then, if they actually went for a test drive and experienced the intoxicating dynamics of driving a well-engineered, high-powered electric car, they'd be hooked. And you're hearing this from someone who is trading in a 2011 Audi R8 V10 Spyder for this car.