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Best car for cross country trip1/5/2024 ![]() ![]() The overall Supercharging experience is great, period. We also don’t have Full-Self-Driving.) Supercharging from Florida to New Hampshire We also knew how to manually reboot the computer if necessary – hold down both scroll buttons on the steering wheel until it reboots – and knew it could be done while driving. It was a bit unnerving, but we knew what was happening. Performance-wise, everything in the car worked fine, bar about five minutes where the screen froze and then rebooted itself while we were driving through South Carolina in the dark. Like with the Manhattan rerouting experience, sometimes you have to route from stop to stop, rather than to your final destination, to force a route you want, but it was easy. What I learned: Your car, for the most part, will get you from point A to B efficiently. Once we left Tarrytown, we reset the route planner to Hanover, New Hampshire, and it was a straight, uncomplicated shot to New England. So we kind of forced it to reroute us, and that worked fine. That’s not much fun, either, but it was better than Manhattan. So instead, we navigated to Tarrytown, New York, thus bypassing Manhattan, crossing the George Washington Bridge and skipping the Bronx. I lived in New York City for six years, and despite it being familiar territory, that was not my preferred route. Tesla wanted to take us straight through Manhattan. On day three, we took a slightly different approach. We didn’t miss a single turn or exit, even right in the heart of the city and heavy traffic. But all we had to do was look at our screen and listen carefully to voice directions. ![]() If you’ve ever driven in DC traffic, then you know that it’s not for the faint hearted. The car did a great job directing us through Washington, DC, traffic on a Friday afternoon. On day two, we drove from Smithfield to Chester County, Pennsylvania, where we stayed overnight with family. Tesla Supercharger, Springfield Mall, Virginia, in the Washington, DC, suburbs Here’s what our cats looked like in the backseat: We also have rubber floor mats, which were handy for when the cats needed to use the litter box (when they gotta go, they gotta go). Just to make sure, we put wipe-clean mats on the seats, and they came out unscathed. He knows because he’s got kids and a big dog and cats as well. Seth Weintraub, Electrek‘s publisher, told me when I was about to order our Model 3 that white Tesla seats wipe clean like a charm. To our relief, our cat-transport strategy worked great. So we put our cats in their beds, buckled them in using retractable car seatbelts that clipped to their harnesses, and hoped for the best. Like babies, cats travel with a lot of stuff.ĭriving with two cats was initially a bit of a quandary, as the Model 3’s backseat isn’t big enough for larger animal carriers, and cats can’t sit in small enclosed carriers for three days. We put valuables – jewelry, important documents, and a fragile Victorian skeleton clock – in our frunk and shared a large suitcase that we put in the trunk, along with winter coats and boots, and cat paraphernalia. We like it here.) Movers took the bulk of our stuff, and we pared our car gear down to the essentials. We undertook this mammoth drive because we’ve moved to New England. It did great, so when it came time to head cross country with our two cats from Florida to New Hampshire over three days, we decided to give it a go. Last autumn, we took it on its first long voyage – 10 hours round trip to Florida. We got our Tesla Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive, estimated range of 267 miles, in June 2021. ![]()
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