¶We pulled into the driveway this morning at about 12:30 AM, completing The Drive in nineteen hours and forty-five minutes, give or take. It certainly took longer than our runs in a gas-powered car. I think our record “from the old days” is just under 18 hours, but that only happened once that I remember and had to be under ideal conditions. We certainly had those conditions yesterday, with zero rain, normal traffic, no backups, and an easy passage through Atlanta, providing the basis for a best-to-best comparison for The Drive with an EV versus a gas car. We did make use of the Express Lane south of Atlanta, mostly because it was open to us and, well, why not (it never seems to be open to us and we’ve always wanted to see what it was all about). Some quick math on the trip computer in the car told me, at the time, that it saved us about twelve minutes, so, to be fair, we likely need to add that to yesterday’s time when making any comparisons, putting our final time at just under 20 hours.
¶So, under ideal conditions, taking the Tesla adds about two hours to The Drive.
¶Not bad.