Range to zero

[SadHill]

My wife took my truck instead of her mache for a work trip so that she wouldn’t have to stop to charge. On the way home she didn’t leave at 100% so when she was 45 miles away she called me and said that it says there is 48 miles of range left. I said, eh, you should be fine. She limped into the garage at 0 miles and 0%. Gotta love it!

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[COdogman]

Actual footage of me when I did that same thing:

 

[Big_Ike]

My wife took my truck instead of her mache for a work trip so that she wouldn’t have to stop to charge. On the way home she didn’t leave at 100% so when she was 45 miles away she called me and said that it says there is 48 miles of range left. I said, eh, you should be fine. She limped into the garage at 0 miles and 0%. Gotta love it!

That is impressive!!!

 

[JackRussellRacing]

Yikes! If that was me (or my wife) you can bet we'd need to re-upholster the seats and do a load of laundry quickly.

 

[R1TandMe]

Good for her. My wife would have said it was my fault

 

[usulio]

If you drive slower than 60mph you can extend the range a lot. Not my first choice but if you are down to the wire...

 

[SadHill]

If you drive slower than 60mph you can extend the range a lot. Not my first choice but if you are down to the wire...

Funny you say that. When she got home and we chatted I asked how fast she was driving (thinking she would say 65 so she had more range). She said oh 75-78. I was like, that is why you were so low on range! Duh! It was her first time driving it for a long distance and she said she loved it more than her car. So maybe R2 is in our future??!!

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Glad she got home safe. I couldn't do something like that, the stress would not be worth it.

 

[BCondrey]

I think I read somewhere that there is a reserve capacity beyond the 0% for situations like this. The real question is how many more miles could she have driven past 0%?

 

[GRC]

When you are down to the crunch, also turning on conserve (for those that have it) will give you a few extra miles. I cut it to the 0% mark once also and made it home just fine. I think there is a few extra miles that it can run even after hitting the red (0%)

 

[OverEasyGoing]

My wife had a similar episode recently. I had to give her the explicit instructions to go ~60 and to drop it into conserve mode. She was surprised to learn that speed affects range

Of course, the next week her R1S leaked fluid and had to have the rear drive unit replaced (which apparently may be tied to using Conserve mode) so that ended up being my fault.

 

[Supratachophobia]

My wife took my truck instead of her mache for a work trip so that she wouldn’t have to stop to charge. On the way home she didn’t leave at 100% so when she was 45 miles away she called me and said that it says there is 48 miles of range left. I said, eh, you should be fine. She limped into the garage at 0 miles and 0%. Gotta love it!

Oh that really ups the resale value....

 

[SadHill]

I think I read somewhere that there is a reserve capacity beyond the 0% for situations like this. The real question is how many more miles could she have driven past 0%?

I saw a YouTube video a while ago from someone who did just that. They drove them till 0%/miles then drove another few miles. Then left them on while sitting in front of a charger and they never turned off.
my sister had a model X for a bit and she said if she goes down to 5 miles left it would shut down. Not sure how accurate that is but she said it was like that for hers.

 

[iamnid]

I saw a YouTube video a while ago from someone who did just that. They drove them till 0%/miles then drove another few miles. Then left them on while sitting in front of a charger and they never turned off.
my sister had a model X for a bit and she said if she goes down to 5 miles left it would shut down. Not sure how accurate that is but she said it was like that for hers.

I had a few Teslas and they all continued to drive past 0. A few miles after zero they start to be power limited though and have trouble keeping up with highway speeds. One time, in our Model 3, it would only go about 30mph at the very end before we made it home.

The real scary part with doing this is that if your BMS (battery management system) is out of calibration, it could be wrong and you have less than it shows. This could be why your sister's Model X died at 5 miles -- that's certainly not typical.

 

[lawmangm]

Actual footage of me when I did that same thing:

Literally laughed out loud!

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