Cross Country Rally: By the Numbers
The Tesla Team, February 3, 2014On Sunday morning, the Tesla Cross Country Rally team completed its record setting trip across the US. We brought you daily updates from the road on our blog. Now, we’re bringing you the numbers.
Total trip time
76 hours, 5 minutes
Total time spent driving
59 hours 34 minutes
Other “non-drive” time
34 minutes
Total charging time
15 hours 57 seconds
Total miles travelled
3,427
Longest distance between Supercharger locations
247 miles from Flagstaff, AZ to Blanding, UT
Longest drive time between Superchargers
4 hours, 56 minutes, 29 seconds to travel 162.5 miles from Silverthorne, CO to Cheyenne, WY
Total number of closed roads & highways encountered
Two (I-70 and I-25, both in Colorado)
Lowest temperature encountered
-4F / -20C
Number of gasoline-powered support vans that broke down
One
Energy drinks consumed
Enough to power 1,400 lead-acid batteries
Fuel saved per car
136 gallons
Dollar amount of fuel savings per car
$435
The Route
The new Supercharger route that spans the US cuts a northern pass, taking drivers close to natural and man-made attractions, such as Arches National Park, Colorado Monument, Mount Rushmore, the Black Hills, Badlands National Park, the Grand Canyon, and the Hualapai Mountains. We didn’t have any time for sightseeing, but the views out the Model S windows were amazing. Here’s the exact route we took, including the distance between each Supercharger.
Hawthorne, Los Angeles to Barstow, CA | 109 miles |
to Kingman, AZ | 210 miles |
to Flagstaff, AZ | 152 miles |
to Blanding, UT | 249 miles |
to Moab, UT | 75 miles |
to Grand Junction, CO | 109 miles |
to Glenwood Springs, CO | 90 miles |
to Silverthorne, CO | 94 miles |
to Cheyenne, WY | 165 miles |
to Lusk, WY | 158 miles |
to Rapid City, SD | 149 miles |
to Murdo, SD | 137 miles |
to Mitchell, SD | 141 miles |
to Worthington, MN | 127 miles |
to Albert Lea, MN | 116 miles |
to La Crosse, WI | 127 miles |
to Mauston, WI | 66 miles |
to Highland Park, IL | 201 miles |
to Mishawaka, IN | 121 miles |
to Maumee, OH | 151 miles |
to Macedonia, OH | 131 miles |
to Somerset, PA | 176 miles |
to Hagerstown, MD | 108 miles |
to Newark, DE | 137 miles |
to New York City | 128 miles |
Superchargers skipped
Our goal for the cross country trip was to achieve the lowest possible charge time for an electric car traveling across the US. With that in mind, we selected a Supercharger route that let us spend minimal time at each post. That means the Tesla team necessarily had to skip some of the Superchargers along the route.
Holbrook, AZ |
Quartzsite, AZ |
Gallup, NM |
Farmington, NM |
Normal, IL |
Rockford, IL |
Angola, IN |
JFK Airport, NY |
Eau Claire, WI |
Madison, WI |