Indian Creek in a Tesla

Looking to go to the creek again soon and wondering if anyone else has brought their Tesla. I know there's a supercharger in Moab and a CCS1 in Monticello but looking to see if anyone here has done it before and can comment on charging/range.

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Connor Dobson wrote:

Looking to go to the creek again soon and wondering if anyone else has brought their Tesla. I know there's a supercharger in Moab and a CCS1 in Monticello but looking to see if anyone here has done it before and can comment on charging/range.

Use your Tesla navigation system to calculate the charging and range. Good luck with the clearance! 

Andrew Rice wrote:

Use your Tesla navigation system to calculate the charging and range. Good luck with the clearance! 

A better route planner seems to think there should be lots of margin but more was looking for first hand experience. If there is none, I'll write a TR after I go.

Connor Dobson wrote:

A better route planner seems to think there should be lots of margin but more was looking for first hand experience. If there is none, I'll write a TR after I go.

I'd be more worried about getting the Tesla keyed or otherwise vandalized by surly locals and haters. Certainly plenty of people have gone to the creek in other sedans. It's not The Maze. 

Don't understand the hate. Back in the day there was someone who was always there in a Geo Metro and a "vote the environment" sticker. Mad respect 

bearded sam wrote:

Don't understand the hate. Back in the day there was someone who was always there in a Geo Metro and a "vote the environment" sticker. Mad respect 

Comparing a Geo Metro to Tesla tells me everything I need to know about this post lol

Wtf is wrong with Americans. Just let the man drive his tesla, why do people get to have $100,000+ sprinter conversions or a giant f150 but it's not okay to have a reasonably priced electric car. Atleast try and be helpful. 

that guy named seb wrote:

Wtf is wrong with Americans. Just let the man drive his tesla, why do people get to have $100,000+ sprinter conversions or a  giant f150 but it's not okay to have a reasonably priced electric car. Atleast try and be helpful. 

There are several answers to this question. The first is that we also treat people who have $100k sprinter vans the same way on the internet. We don’t segregate. Second, I‘m not sure Tesla’s would be considered reasonably priced by many. Thirdly, and most importantly, the OP’s question can be answered just as easily by his own research, which he alludes to already doing.

If someone has actually traveled to IC with a Tesla they will inevitably chime in with useful information and all of your comments, along with everyone else’s will be forgotten, until then the jesters will jest. Until that happens we are giving the man free bumps to the top. We are doing him a favor, one irrelevant post at a time, if you think about it. 

If you hate OP you hate freedom, thats the America I know. You do you OP, get some extra range out of these haters' energy and send from sea to shining sea 

bearded sam wrote:

Don't understand the hate. Back in the day there was someone who was always there in a Geo Metro and a "vote the environment" sticker. Mad respect 

Where's the hate? My comment wasn't negative. I just said I'd be worried about taking my Tesla into a place where it might be the target of vandalism. I'm not promoting vandalism. 

Not Not MP Admin wrote:

There are several answers to this question. The first is that we also treat people who have $100k sprinter vans the same way on the internet. We don’t segregate. Second, I‘m not sure Tesla’s would be considered reasonably priced by many. Thirdly, and most importantly, the OP’s question can be answered just as easily by his own research, which he alludes to already doing.

If someone has actually traveled to IC with a Tesla they will inevitably chime in with useful information and all of your comments, along with everyone else’s will be forgotten, until then the jesters will jest. Until that happens we are giving the man free bumps to the top. We are doing him a favor, one irrelevant post at a time, if you think about it. 

What do you consider reasonably priced?  Tesla Model 3 is $42990 (Tesla Model 3) with $7500 federal tax credit and often state tax credit ($2000 in Colorado).   That's $33490.  Last year the average new car prices was $47077 (KBB Average car price 2022)

climber pat wrote:

What do you consider reasonably priced?  Tesla Model 3 is $42990 (Tesla Model 3) with $7500 federal tax credit and often state tax credit ($2000 in Colorado).   That's $33490.  Last year the average new car prices was $47077 (KBB Average car price 2022)

Good luck getting a new Tesla for $43k unless you are building /custom ordering, which I don’t even know if you can. Most new Teslas are going to have at least $7500 worth of add ons which negates any “federal tax credit” that one would receive. Secondly, you don’t automatically get $7500 when you buy a tesla, you can get “up to $7500” if you qualify and buy in the months of January or February iirc. My point about being reasonable hinges around the assumption that the individual buying a Tesla is not buying the absolute cheapest option. To me, they are not reasonably priced, if you disagree that’s cool too. Opinions are pretty neat huh?

Genuinely curious, what percentage of car owners buy new compared to used In 22/23? 

Y'all need to lay off the haterade.

I haven't tried in my Y, but I did drive my Wrangler 4xE PHEV there last November. I charged at the AirBnB we stayed at using the 120V (after asking permission of course!) overnight each night. So I at least used a little less gas, yay.

Let's see, from the Monticello, where we stayed, to Supercrack and the lot is ~30 miles. So that's a 60 mile minimum round trip to the creek. The Y gets around 4 MPH from the 120V, so you'd need 15 hours to put that energy back, assuming ideal consumption. Add more for super cold weather, fast driving or crags deep into the creek. Yeah, that's either not going to work, or will barely work with steadily decreasing state-of-charge over your climbing days.

Of course if you both do that, and blast the thing up to 80 or 90% SoC with the Moab supercharger, it would probably work fine. I'm considering taking my Y next time to find out, honestly. I also have the CCS adapter and have used it around CO, but I have no idea how good the Monticello station is.

Why don’t you just bring a generator to charge it? 

oldfattradguuy kk wrote:

Why don’t you just bring a generator to charge it? 

I was going to say the same. Run a diesel generator at camp. 

Darren Mabe wrote:

I was going to say the same. Run a diesel generator at camp. 

Can't be worse than all the RVs running their generators deep into the night so they don't miss their Tucker and Hannity fix 

Tesla hybrid. 
But no one gets upset when you pull up in a Prius. 

Could tow it on a trailer with a RAM 3500 Cummins to use as a commuter once you're there. 

Greg Miller wrote:

I always wondered… if people want us all to go electric.. where do all the gas cars go and where do you think all the materials to make batteries for the electric cars come from?

I mean, it's not like making a vehicle in general is super green. But even factoring in grid (in)efficiencies, your pollution production per mile is generally less in an EV than in an ICEV. I think the core argument is that, over the lifetime of the vehicle, from resource extraction clear to eventual disposal, an EV produces less pollution. Lithium mining is an ugly process, but oil extraction isn't great either and it's way more widespread.

Lotta folks disingenuously let the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to EVs. As to Teslas specifically, well, that's a whole other issue.