supercharger

If you own a Tesla Model S and live near a supercharger network, charging is not an issue.

There's no reason why Tesla Supercharger stations cannot provide a fully charged battery to swap into your car.

Tesla's supercharger network makes long-distance travel pretty convenient, as long as your trip is covered by the network.

If absolutely nothing is available, spend an hour of your time on the weekend using a supercharger.

And when you're sitting at a supercharger you can do things like eat or read your kindle.

In the US, the overwhelming majority of long trips have a lot better supercharger coverage than this particular one.

For example, Tesla operates Supercharger (that's what they actually call them) stations where you can charge your car for free.

It's well within range of the supercharger at Paramus, NY or Syracuse.

I've spent maybe 2 hours charging at a supercharger in the ~9000 miles so far.

Louis supercharger to the one in Kansas City is 213 miles.

I didn't read the frustration as coming from lack of supercharger access as from the inability of the Tesla's guidance system to plot a coherent, logical course from one supercharger to the next.

Tesla pays for charging at any of their Tesla SuperCharger stations.

And having him get off the highway to stop at a supercharger where he needed "0 minutes" of charging?

Tesla obviously wants these sites to form clear routes, and they advertise when they hit certain milestones ("NY to San Francisco all on the supercharger network!").

They can't be crapboxes that you justify with "at least it doesn't pollute so much." They need to be, "I want that awesome car!" Tesla has achieved this, and a big part of that is the supercharger network and the ease of long-distance travel with their cars.

Either they say "Taking the Tesla was awesome and I never want to deal with a gas car on a road trip again" or they say "I had to take the gas car because I was going through one of the few remaining supercharger deserts and it was awful and I hope I never have to do that again." Road tripping a Tesla does require a bit more forethought.