Tesla is planning a “super long range” Model Y
Maybe I&#x27;m weird, but I feel like range anxiety is overblown. Most people don&#x27;t go that far in a day and while recharging isn&#x27;t instant, it&#x27;s getting quite fast. Back in the day, it was easy to be bored. That was so little to distract you while waiting. Now, I have a smartphone with me all the time. Even when I&#x27;m home, half the time I&#x27;m on my smartphone by choice. Ok, that&#x27;s an exaggeration, but it&#x27;s so much easier to wait half an hour. Get a drink and a snack, derp around on my phone, etc.<p>If I&#x27;m doing Boston -&gt; DC via Tesla Model 3 Long Range, it&#x27;ll add two stops for 20 minutes and 25 minutes. However, I&#x27;m going to have to stop for gas along the way at least once so the 45 minute penalty should maybe be a 30 minute penalty. Realistically, it isn&#x27;t a bad thing to stop a couple times, get drinks&#x2F;snacks, stretch my legs, etc. It feels like it&#x27;s a 5% penalty which just doesn&#x27;t seem significant for something people rarely do.<p>I think some of it is the psychology that a 20 minute stop feels like a real stop while a 5 minute stop doesn&#x27;t feel like a real stop. Even if you spend 10 minutes in the convenience shop or get lunch, that&#x27;s your &quot;choice&quot; rather than the car&#x27;s need. A lot of gas stops are longer than 5 minutes on road trips.<p>I think people buy cars for things they almost never do - and have a weird hate of themselves if their car can&#x27;t accommodate something. I had a friend whose car couldn&#x27;t fit a piece of furniture and he had to pay $100 to have it delivered. He said that he hated himself for not buying the larger (and $5,000 more expensive) vehicle he was also considering the three times this had happened. In my mind, that&#x27;s not something to regret. You&#x27;ve come out $4,700 ahead! Yes, sometimes your car won&#x27;t accommodate everything and that&#x27;s ok. Maybe your car will need 5% more time to do Boston to DC, but that&#x27;s not a big deal in your life.