I recently took a 400 mile road trip in Canada, 800 miles round-trip, which was the longest drive. I’ve ever taken in this car. I have a 2025 limited. The weather going out was about 55°C and going back. It was 75°.
I have to say the car performed perfectly. I used the lane tracing on highways the entire way and I think I had to manually drive maybe 5% of the time and that was inside of cities.
Going 100 km an hour around winding Highways in moderate mountains it was a little scary, but although I kept my hands on the wheel and handled it very well.
There’s a robust charging infrastructure in Canada, I used mostly Tesla because I have a subscription. I saw the fastest charging speed I’ve ever seen on this car at 97 kW for about 15 minutes when I pulled into one station.
ABRP suggested multiple stops about three stops at about 30 minutes each. I did that on the way out but on the way back I just charged 45 minutes each time and only needed two charges and an overnight at a hotel of course to 100%.
Because I can only handle being in the car for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours before I need a break anyway this is truly not problem. I was often ready to go after the car had come close to finish charging to 90% anyway. I did confirm that it was 30 minutes to go from 20 to 80% in good weather.
So yes, charging the electric car adds for that trip about an hour and a half of charge time but on a road trip I need that time anyway. I would take an ICE vehicle only if you had to get there without basically stopping so you couldn’t afford the extra hour and a half… Or in the winter. In the winter, the range would go down by 30 to 50% and then you’d be stopping every hour and that’s ridiculous. lol
It was great in the spring though. Just beautiful.