{"id":70976,"date":"2014-01-30T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=70976"},"modified":"2014-01-30T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:32:11","slug":"tesla-devotees-charging-across-the-country-to-set-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2014\/01\/tesla-devotees-charging-across-the-country-to-set-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Devotees Charging Across the Country to Set Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A team of four is attempting to set a world record by driving a Tesla Model S from Los Angeles to New York using only the maker's network of superchargers in just three days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s founder, has been threatening to take his family on a cross-country vacation in a Model S using only the company\u2019s recently completed Supercharger network to power up the vehicle.<\/p>\n

But before he even powered up his car, one family\u2019s already done it and a team of four is seeking to set a world record for the trip.<\/p>\n

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A Profitable News Source!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A father-daughter team drove from New York to Los Angeles in five days. Now, the four-man Cross Country Rally team is currently attempting to break the newly established \u201crecord\u201d by completing the 3,400-mile trek in reverse \u2013 Los Angeles to New York \u2013 in just three days.<\/p>\n

The team left the Tesla design studio in Hawthorne, a Los Angeles suburb, at 12:01 a.m. today. The trip will take the cars through mid-winter conditions across the middle of the country, with stops only at Superchargers, which will provide a 50% charge in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

As of about 10:15 a.m. ET, the team had made it to the supercharging station in Arizona.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sun is just starting to rise over our Kingman, AZ \u202a#Supercharger! The team is making good time so far! \u202a#DriveFree,\u201d the team tweeted.<\/p>\n

The first team to accomplish the feat, John Glenney, 62, and his 26-year-old daughter, Jill, ran into just two problems during their journey: a flat tire in New York and the possibility they wouldn\u2019t make it to a charging station in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

(Nissan becomes first company to sell 100,000 EVs. For more, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The pair planned to drive form Newark, Del., to the next supercharging station in Hagerstown, Md. However, the Hagerstown station was not complete. So they had to travel more than 100 miles to the next station in Somerset, Penn. The pair made it with 11 miles to spare.<\/p>\n

The pair blogged about the experience, much to the delight of other Model S owners, who followed along \u2013 some in real time. Glenney set off on his trip with the simple goal of being the first to complete the cross-country journey relying only on Superchargers, but he didn’t expect it to attract so much attention.<\/p>\n

(<\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong> to see what Bob Lutz wants to do with electric vehicles.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“One thing I really loved about the whole trip is it inspired so many people,” he said.<\/p>\n

When the pair arrived at the company\u2019s Hawthorne studios they were met by a congratulatory group of Model S owners. They traveled through 16 states using 28 Superchargers along the way.<\/p>\n

(For more about Tesla\u2019s fourth-quarter revenue increase, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The senior Glenney is no secret to driving a Tesla product cross-country: this was his second time around. Two years ago, he drove his Roadster from Washington DC to San Francisco, charging the car at campgrounds along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s founder, has been threatening to take his family on a cross-country vacation in a Model S using only the company\u2019s recently completed Supercharger network to power up the vehicle. However, two others are going to beat him to it. To see the how they did it, please go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":70978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70976"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=70976"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=70976"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=70976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}