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Originally Posted by NomoTesla
The tradeoff when on a road trip is the difference between greater efficiency and skipping a charge stop versus accelerating and driving faster but with increased charging stops. I'm not sure which one is faster in the real world. But at least when I drive efficiently I'm also saving wear-and-tear. Not a bad thing when driving 3,000 miles roundtrip.
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I don’t understand what wear-and-tear you think you’re speaking of. It’s nice that you want to hypermile like a grandma in a Prius but driving the iX slightly faster isn’t going to wear it any quicker other than a few more thousand miles out of your OEM tires. I’ve driven my iX hard in all sorts of conditions for the last 84k miles and it’s as quick and comfortable as the day I got it. I’ve done 6000 mile roadtrips and there’s no extra “wear and tear.”
Now it’s your car you drive it how you want. The other 90% of us will probably push it on the daily and semi-hypermile on trips to save a charging stop but not drive 70mph on a 70mph speed limit and have the 85-90mph speed of traffic blow by us.