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Sorry, now that you describe it, I realize the emphasis on the "round trip" part. Yes, doing a 4 day roundtrip with that many miles (and only 2 'travel' days) means a lot of driving for a brief stay. I was thinking more in terms of a relatively continuous trip where 4 hours a day for 4 days is not very much (for example).

My parents' house is about 500mi away from where I live, and I generally don't drive unless I'm staying for a week rather than just a few days, so this is a good point-- for a trip to visit someone, and return, a good % of your time is spent driving. As a typical "see the sights" type roadtrip, you might be doing 8 hours a day every day for an extended time, which is more what I was thinking.

(FWIW our 3 can easily get its rated 310 mi range so really you'd only need to stop once, assuming you can charge at your destination, but of course that assumes there's a supercharger relatively close to the 'middle' of your segment.. OTOH if you did stop twice they'd be quite brief stops, probably like 20 minutes).



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