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by rymate1234 2589 days ago
Cars are able to drive outside of populated areas, so the satellites might be useful for that purpose
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Teslas aren't really able to drive far outside populated areas.
???

People have driven them around Australia. Can't get much further away from populated areas than that.

e.g. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/woman-drove-her-te...

watch cpg grey drive on a desolate road in Nevada. can't get much further outside of population in the lower 48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_naDg-guomA
Neat video, really drives home how essential super chargers are to the usefulness of electric vehicles. Sitting for 12 hours in a trailer park to get another 200 miles of range is insane.

Also, this guy has some serious driving PTSD or something, he's so scared of cars that he thinks its dangerous to drive on an empty highway at night. Yikes.

You can only drive about 1h30m if you want to make sure that you are able to come back from where there are no chargers...
That's really a weird way of looking at it. Most people won't drive in one direction and turn back and refuse to use a super charger.

https://i.imgur.com/leKbJ4k.jpg (Map from April this year)

Most super chargers are within about 120 miles of each other, so at 65mph, you have about 2 hours between them. They've done a pretty impressive job building out the infrastructure

I thought that most people wanted to avoid having to stop their trip for charging while driving because it takes too long (I don't even like to stop for gas and it is much quicker)... it's weird that you would not choose the best solution to your problem (and spend more money while doing it), but I guess some people don't care about time or money.

Also, what are those white spots on the map? Unpopulated areas with no charger in a 2h radius?

Your idea of what a tesla is like is far off. My 2012 tesla can drive over 250 miles. If I really gun it in the winter in the mountains its over 200. Then 30 mins charging at a supercharger. The new S can go over 370 miles without charging. 60 miles an hour * 4 hours, people stop to eat or pee.