No regrets! I took my AT from Bay Area up to South Lake Tahoe last week. One stop for lunch and quick charge midway up to Tahoe. From Tahoe back to Bay Area with about 90% SOC, I drove home nonstop and with 170 miles rate to spare when I got home.
Interesting to see your numbers on 19 inch wheels. I have 20 inch wheels. I get about 290 miles of range with an arrival charge of 9% when driving 83 to 85 on the interstate.
This is the conundrum I experienced as well but it was a $43,000 difference at the time which I couldn't justify for what I really wanted from the GT which was the massaging seats. The Touring is a fine compromise and the "sweet spot" in the Air lineup in my humble opinion. If we are eventually offered the option to upgrade/retrofit our Touring seats to the massaging seats, I won't hesitate to pull the trigger.
Should I tell my "squealing" story again?Personally I view the Touring as the superior car unless you really take a lot of road trips, or the massaging seats are a true necessity. That it is so much cheaper is a nice bonus.
I'd be hard pressed to tell the acceleration difference from a GT without a stopwatch, and the Touring's lighter weight is a handling advantage. Although the car is faster than the all-season tires on 19" wheels can handle around a corner with either trim. The 2.5-3 inches lower floor in the back translates to a pretty big difference in comfort. I don't perceive the extra Alcantara as any more or less high end than the other trims - it's just different. And I like massaging seats but not as much as @Babyrocko1908
Both are great cars, but if money were no object, for my needs I'd personally still take the Touring.
If you drive in places where the legal speed limit is 75, you will not go 380 miles without charging anyway, maybe unless it's all downhill.
I generally find that by the time I, the dog and any passengers have had the requisite bathroom / coffee breaks the car is usually ready to go again.
Let me put it this way... I was never waiting on the car.. it surprised us that I'd get notifications for charging complete 10 or 15 mins into a session.. id usually be grabbing a bite or buying some snacks and would have to hurry up and move the car cos it was done and I wasn't .. but numerically it'll take about 12 to 15 mins .. which is not a lot of time at all by the time you go into a store or something and come out
Oops yes 200.
The battery pack at full charge in the GT is 924V where the Touring is 756V. With the same current, the power to the electric motor will be lower with lower voltage. You are correct that the the power is also software limited so it does not scale with just voltage as we see with the Touring and Pure that have about the same battery voltage but different HP. The differences in charge speed between GT and Touring are also caused by the difference in battery pack voltage.
My days of calculus were so far back, and I'd buy if someone makes an app for these calculations.Ten minutes, very roughly? Depends on your state of charge, preconditioning, charge output etc.
Some crude math:
150kW x .2h = 30kWh
30kWh x 3.6 kWh/mi = 108 miles
So at a constant 150kW and assuming average-ish efficiency you’ll get 108 miles of range in 12 minutes.
Now, if you actually pull 180kW (not unheard of from some 150kW chargers) and drive more efficiently so you get 3.8 mi/kWh, you’ll get your 100 miles in a smidge under 8
9 minutes.
Rock up at a 350kW charger and pull an average of 220kW, and drive at a super efficient 4.0mi/kWh, and you get your 100 miles in a mere six minutes and 49 seconds
YMMV, literally
The issue usually becomes the variability in day to day efficiency for me. So I've settled on being pretty conservative and simple in my range and charging calculations. I figure very roughly that every 1% of my battery is 1 kWh (instead of 0.92 kWh) and that I should be able to get 3 miles/kWh without much difficulty conditions permitting of course. Doing this, I just multiply my remaining battery percentage by 3 and that gives me a decent estimate of my remaining range. Or, wrt this specific issue, how many miles of real world range I get while charging.
