Road trip with a family of 5 over 3500 miles and 12 days. How does the Raptor hold up?

[Swacer_2]

I owned an R1S for a couple of weeks (sold it because my wife didn't want an EV that large) and can provide some feedback:

- Oversteer: never experienced it
- Infotainment: lack of CarPlay / Android Auto was a huge miss. Friend of mine is a director of engineering there and I've told him this at least 5 times and he has forwarded my complaints to the software team
- Roof tint: the amount they tinted in terms of light and heat rejection was pretty spot-on, so this didn't bother me
- Service location distance: closest one to me was 30 miles away and that felt too far, so I feel your 120 mile pain

My biggest concern with the R1S was it being the ~320 mile variant (vs. the 400+ variant I wanted). I drive up to the mountains a lot especially in the winter, so I want as much base range as possible. The tangentially related concern was that I tend to drive in blizzards (on purpose and accident), so I also generally don't feel comfortable in an EV for my particular use case so I couldn't keep the R1S for me. Charge network is another concern, but with Tesla opening up and more EV chargers being built-out constantly that was less of a concern.

Thank you, this was helpful. I do agree on the battery range. I saw the 390mi battery is coming, but you sacrifice 30 miles of range just to have offroad tires.

Overall, i think you will need an ICE around for the near future for more reliable drives, but the EV can offset your other drives. Time will tell

 

[thatJeepguy]

I owned an R1S for a couple of weeks (sold it because my wife didn't want an EV that large) and can provide some feedback:

- Oversteer: never experienced it
- Infotainment: lack of CarPlay / Android Auto was a huge miss. Friend of mine is a director of engineering there and I've told him this at least 5 times and he has forwarded my complaints to the software team
- Roof tint: the amount they tinted in terms of light and heat rejection was pretty spot-on, so this didn't bother me
- Service location distance: closest one to me was 30 miles away and that felt too far, so I feel your 120 mile pain

My biggest concern with the R1S was it being the ~320 mile variant (vs. the 400+ variant I wanted). I drive up to the mountains a lot especially in the winter, so I want as much base range as possible. The tangentially related concern was that I tend to drive in blizzards (on purpose and accident), so I also generally don't feel comfortable in an EV for my particular use case so I couldn't keep the R1S for me. Charge network is another concern, but with Tesla opening up and more EV chargers being built-out constantly that was less of a concern.

Thank you, this was helpful. I do agree on the battery range. I saw the 390mi battery is coming, but you sacrifice 30 miles of range just to have offroad tires.

Overall, i think you will need an ICE around for the near future for more reliable drives, but the EV can offset your other drives. Time will tell

Yea cool own 2 90k cars what a great idea… You’re proving the point ev’s are pointless.

 

[engineer]

We are responsible, we have to dispose of oil and fluids or face steep fines. So why not EV owner be responsible for their batteries?

Do you dispose of your exhaust as well? Last I checked, you simply fart it into the air like I do

 

[shigman]

For me the destination of a road trip makes a EV a no go....period. If i was road tripping all interstate from Houston to Chicago, sure. All my road trips are on two lane roads for the last couple hundred miles to a cabin 20-30 mins from the nearest decent sized town. These cabins don't have 220volt chargers, and I'm not driving into town just to top off every couple days. There are definitely road trip situations, especially shorter ones that would work fine with EV. There are also road trip situations, especially in winter where gas is far better. It also depends on your style of how you complete a road trip. If you turn 1000 miles into a 3 day drive, EV would be easy with 100% charge ups happening every night at the hotel. Also do all charging stations have bathrooms and coffee etc, that means two stops instead of a single full service stop.

 

[engineer]

Thank you, this was helpful. I do agree on the battery range. I saw the 390mi battery is coming, but you sacrifice 30 miles of range just to have offroad tires.

Overall, i think you will need an ICE around for the near future for more reliable drives, but the EV can offset your other drives. Time will tell

Wife and I use the Raptor for longer trips longer than 50-100 miles and use our Model 3 for shorter trips particularly stuff around town. It works out pretty well for us, but there are definitely still times where we'd normally take the Model 3 and we drive the Raptor instead because it's still new to me I love driving it

 

[New recaros]

Do you dispose of your exhaust as well? Last I checked, you simply fart it into the air like I do

Addressing your childish comment, Your kind will try to make us eat a certain way to reduce gas I am sure. They are after cows now.
Why is it you think we should get in trouble if we dump oil all over the earth, but EV owners should be able let the toxic heavy metals in the battery leak all over. Who pays the cost of disposal? The owner of the battery should be held to the same cradle to grave standard industry is held to.
EV economics is manipulated data. They use the best mining economics instead of average and fail to add disposal cost and environmental damage.
EV’s have a place, densely populated urban areas. I get it.

 

[MDJAK]

Not sure EVs place is densely populated urban areas. If I didn’t live in my own home where I could reliable charge it every night, I’d never consider owning one. Densely populated, at least to me, wreaks of apartment buildings with no charging.

 

[engineer]

Addressing your childish comment, Your kind will try to make us eat a certain way to reduce gas I am sure. They are after cows now.
Why is it you think we should get in trouble if we dump oil all over the earth, but EV owners should be able let the toxic heavy metals in the battery leak all over. Who pays the cost of disposal? The owner of the battery should be held to the same cradle to grave standard industry is held to.
EV economics is manipulated data. They use the best mining economics instead of average and fail to add disposal cost and environmental damage.
EV’s have a place, densely populated urban areas. I get it.

"Your kind"

Less tribalism my friend--it's bad for your mental health

 

[EricM]

"Your kind"

Location: California.

Yup, that checks out.

Balkanization here we come!

 

[engineer]

Not sure EVs place is densely populated urban areas. If I didn’t live in my own home where I could reliable charge it every night, I’d never consider owning one. Densely populated, at least to me, wreaks of apartment buildings with no charging.

We have friends who live in apartments that only own an EV. There are a few charging solutions that work in that situation:

1. Newer apartment complexes have EV chargers
2. Workplace charging
3. Weekly trip to a Supercharger, which is usually near a Target or grocer store, so they charge while shopping

Being able to charge at home, particularly from your own solar panels, is super nice though and the most ideal setup.