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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/11/16 1:29 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 13:02:31 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:56:40 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:09:10 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:54:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:59:23 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

When I walked out of the airport in Amsterdam, I was astonished at
the number of Teslas waiting to
pick up passengers. The Tesla has gone over big as taxis in A-dam.
Besides the half dozen or so at
the airport, I saw another 8-10 on the highways during the nine
days I was there. In the past couple
years, I've seen only one on the roads around here.

Of course, Holland is not a huge country.

I looked and there are a few charging stations near me (~20 miles) but
they are all in high end hotels so I assume you have to be staying
there to use them

Ah, with your skills you could install a 50amp outlet in your garage
and charge it in no time. The
Cypress Bend RV resort would probably let you hook up to the 50amp outlet for $5.

Getting 50a in the garage is trivial. that is where the main panel is.
The "charging" I am worried about is the hundred grand Musk charges
for the car.
The issue with stations is what to do when you are not home although I
am not that far away very often in a car.

Campgrounds?
I think you need more than a handy 14-50r
Perhaps you could carry a charger in the trunk and put an RV plug on
it but you better have a few adapters.

Nissan's "Leaf," which lists at about $30,000, gets just over 100 miles
per charge and is opting for a larger capacity battery for the 2017
model, a change that promises about 150 miles per charge. I don't know
if that includes running the AC. I drive about that many miles per week
unless we're going somewhere out of the local area.

The leaf does OK in cool areas. Hot areas, and the leaf battery has a high
failure rate. Bad cooling circuit. Talked to a Leaf guy last year in San
Diego, and his complaint was the $100 a month t charge.My friend has a
Volt, he says about 40 miles on a charge.