Luxrage
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In case anyone doesn't realize this, if you have the feature turned on (knowing Google it's on by deafult) your phone has probably been logging every trip you make every day. Google's Timeline even gives you driving miles.
I pulled up my Google maps timeline for the last four years and looked at my monthly mileage averages, and all of the towns I went to. I averaged 40 miles per day and on the longest trips I did, about 78 miles each way, every town I went to at that time had a charger station.
Even the really long, on a whim, trips, the longest was 159 miles each way. And it looks like there's charging stations every 50 miles. I spent about 4 hours in that town before leaving so I'd have to know how the Slate's charge times are to really do the math. The point is that I think 150 really is enough for something that's gonna be a second car anyways.
The major road trips I did, I always ended up renting a car. One was to BUY a car 6 hours away, and the others were trips I wouldn't take the Slate on in the first place (LTD Road Trip from TX to WI).
Funnily enough I was tempted on the extended range battery, but I really don't need it, looking at the data.
I pulled up my Google maps timeline for the last four years and looked at my monthly mileage averages, and all of the towns I went to. I averaged 40 miles per day and on the longest trips I did, about 78 miles each way, every town I went to at that time had a charger station.
Even the really long, on a whim, trips, the longest was 159 miles each way. And it looks like there's charging stations every 50 miles. I spent about 4 hours in that town before leaving so I'd have to know how the Slate's charge times are to really do the math. The point is that I think 150 really is enough for something that's gonna be a second car anyways.
The major road trips I did, I always ended up renting a car. One was to BUY a car 6 hours away, and the others were trips I wouldn't take the Slate on in the first place (LTD Road Trip from TX to WI).
Funnily enough I was tempted on the extended range battery, but I really don't need it, looking at the data.
