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IT’S NOT OFTEN you need to employ slipstreaming on the road, but these are desperate times, my friends. The Tesla Model 3 Long Range is currently indicating five percent battery and displaying a warning to stay below 75km/h if we want to reach our destination.
At this point you’re probably thinking, ‘Oh great, another story about electric car range anxiety’, but no, while there is a degree of anxiety within this story, it’s all the fault of the driver not the car. Inspired by the Model 3’s ‘Long Range’ moniker, we thought it would be instructive to see how far we could drive Tesla’s baby on a single charge in the real world.
As part of its recent facelift, the Model 3 Long Range is now claimed to be capable of an impressive 657km; this doesn’t make it the long-distance EV king – that title belongs to its bigger brothers, the Model S Performance (704km) and Model S Long Range (722km) with their monster 100kWh batteries – but 657km puts the Model 3 LR into a solid third place, on paper at least.
To test Tesla’s claim, we devised a simple test: starting at Tesla’s Melbourne service centre in the YouTube channel).
