Graffi
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Now that we have owned our new Tesla for One whole week, we find that my Wife still prefers to use the Leaf as her daily commute vehicle. It is smaller and therefore easier to maneuver in the parking garage at work, plus it would cause major heartache if someone scraped the side of her brand new Tesla, Tessi. Yes, she names each of her cars and treats them as her children. Plus, the Leaf (Graffi) is far more energy efficient than Tessi.
This last weekend my Wife, her children and grandchildren, along with her ex, all went to Disneyland for Fri/Sat. Fortunately I was able to escape the trip (after all, I went to Disneyland in July 1971 so why do I need to go again). Her oldest son (32) who is a big car guy along with her ex, drove Tessi up and back (about 200 miles R/T). I think her ex wanted to drive, but neither her son nor she offered him the chance to do that. Her ex has had a Ford GT for years now, along with several other cars, including a high performance Mustang. Both were very impressed with Tessi. Now her ex wants one, LOL, Actually I think he just wants to drive her's. I had suggested that he set the autopilot at the speed limit and let it do all the work up the I-5 from San Diego to Anaheim. He would have nothing to do with that. He wanted to feel the car the entire drive. I did not tell him about changing the steering to Sport mode. It is set for standard. Oh, and I LOVE the phone app. I was able to follow the trip the whole way, including speed, and satellite view. I was even able to pinpoint the exact parking space they parked in at the motel. I kept texting my wife that her son was going way to fast and would burn up too much electricity. Plus they decided to not fill up at the Santa Ana Supercharger until Saturday night on the way home. Turned out that they got there with only 30 miles left on the charge. By Saturday night it was only 24, but the Supercharger was only 6 miles away. He drove home the same way, maybe a little faster but I was not able to monitor that drive. I was asleep. They got home after 1 am. Sunday morning, with only 17 miles remaining. After my wife got in bed I got up to plug Tessi in, and set the limit to 50%. That is still 37.5 Kwh, so gives plenty of range until I charge it again for our next trip, this Friday morning driving up to the San Francisco area for the Memorial weekend. Should be a fun drive up and back.
I will keep you posted....
This last weekend my Wife, her children and grandchildren, along with her ex, all went to Disneyland for Fri/Sat. Fortunately I was able to escape the trip (after all, I went to Disneyland in July 1971 so why do I need to go again). Her oldest son (32) who is a big car guy along with her ex, drove Tessi up and back (about 200 miles R/T). I think her ex wanted to drive, but neither her son nor she offered him the chance to do that. Her ex has had a Ford GT for years now, along with several other cars, including a high performance Mustang. Both were very impressed with Tessi. Now her ex wants one, LOL, Actually I think he just wants to drive her's. I had suggested that he set the autopilot at the speed limit and let it do all the work up the I-5 from San Diego to Anaheim. He would have nothing to do with that. He wanted to feel the car the entire drive. I did not tell him about changing the steering to Sport mode. It is set for standard. Oh, and I LOVE the phone app. I was able to follow the trip the whole way, including speed, and satellite view. I was even able to pinpoint the exact parking space they parked in at the motel. I kept texting my wife that her son was going way to fast and would burn up too much electricity. Plus they decided to not fill up at the Santa Ana Supercharger until Saturday night on the way home. Turned out that they got there with only 30 miles left on the charge. By Saturday night it was only 24, but the Supercharger was only 6 miles away. He drove home the same way, maybe a little faster but I was not able to monitor that drive. I was asleep. They got home after 1 am. Sunday morning, with only 17 miles remaining. After my wife got in bed I got up to plug Tessi in, and set the limit to 50%. That is still 37.5 Kwh, so gives plenty of range until I charge it again for our next trip, this Friday morning driving up to the San Francisco area for the Memorial weekend. Should be a fun drive up and back.
I will keep you posted....