He actually has a guest book of folks (most of them strangers) who he’s allowed to drive his 2018 Tesla Model 3. I did as an EV Veteran
. But my 2011 Nissan Leaf, while dependable and fun, is a first-generation EV with limited range and has tethered me to an 80-mile radius of home. So, when I was planning to take a road trip from my home in Kentucky to visit my almost 94-year-old dad in Connecticut, I was resigned to take my wife’s trusty old 2012 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid like I have in the past, and drive the majority of the trip on dirty and expensive gas.. Daniel is an EV evangelist par none.
It seems silly in a way to be even writing this, as so many Tesla owners already know how easy it is to drive from state to state with the robust Tesla Supercharger network. But even though I’ve been living in the EV world for years, this was all new to me. The Tesla seamlessly took us on our route going from Supercharger to Supercharger. It even calculated the ideal amount of time we should spend at each stop to make it as efficient as possible.
I even got my sports-car-loving and Corvette-owning brother to take it for a spin and he was quite impressed. The other thing that was a bit of a challenge was getting the wipers to work at the correct speed on our way back home. Eden and I had a system of me pushing the button and her gauging what speed the wipers needed to be on and she would press that setting on the screen. I understand this function probably could have been done using voice commands, but we didn’t learn that beforehand and that wasn’t something I was about to attempt on the fly.
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