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To: Eric who wrote (18221)	3/9/2010 1:01:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 86355

So a 54 kwh battery can take you about 250 miles fully charged. But at the end of that you need to be back home so you can charge it up. In theory, you could drive it 125 miles away from your house but that would be cutting it close. Best to limit your distance to have a safety factor. You could drive to anywhere in the Puget Sound area, Mt Rainier, Olympic Peninsula. Vancouver BC maybe. Portland OR would be out of the question. Unless you can stay somewhere you can charge it before returning. You're saying you can charge 35 kwh/day. And thats done in the daytime cause thats when you're creating solar power from your pv. Or I guess you could store that in batteries during the day, say in your basement, and charge the car at night off those batteries. Or you could just charge it at night off the grid but then you're not independent of the grid. And it would take a day and a half of solar energy from your pv to fully charge the car if its close to having no charge. Course, I presume your solar pv has other tasks to perform than just charging the Tesla.

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