Month: April 2021

  • Tesla: How a MY does on a 1,635 mile road trip

    Tesla: How a MY does on a 1,635 mile road trip

    One of the biggest worries electric vehicles is how practical is it to take an electric car on a long road trip. Typically, the first question about an electric car is: “What’s the range.” The short answer is to just give the EPA rated range, but the long answer is more complicated with speed, elevation…

  • Tesla Supercharger opens in Pigeon Forge

    Tesla Supercharger opens in Pigeon Forge

    UPDATE: The Pigeon Forge Supercharger is up and running. It’s at a shopping center on Teaster Lane near Wears Valley Road. It has 12 stalls (up to 250 kW). It doesn’t show up as operational on the Tesla web map on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, but reports in the Tennessee and Western North Carolina Tesla…

  • Post-Pandemic: Return to normal after COVID-19 pandemic unlikely

    Post-Pandemic: Return to normal after COVID-19 pandemic unlikely

    As more American get COVID-19 vaccinations, people are looking forward to a “return to normal”; visiting relatives, eating in restaurants, nightlife and concerts, and even casual shopping in a store. That all will happen as we progress along, but going back to normal? Probably not. Just a couple weeks ago, futurist Amy Webb and her…