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What a 500-mile day looks like before you pull out

From the Driver’s Seat · Jul 6, 2026 · Road Trip
Tesla trip planner showing a 505.7 mile route with three Supercharger stops and the battery percentage on arrival at each one.
The car planned the whole day before I pulled out: 505.7 miles, three charging stops. Start and end addresses blurred.

Before I left for Alabama I put the destination in and let the car do the math. It came back with 505.7 miles, a little under nine hours, and three Supercharger stops already picked out. It also told me what I'd roll into each one with and what I'd have left when I got there. Twelve percent, if you're curious. That's the part people who don't own one of these never quite believe. The range anxiety everybody warns you about is a planning problem, and the car solved it before I backed out of the driveway. I didn't look up a single charger the whole way down. I just drove to the next pin on the screen. The only thing left for me to decide was where we were going to eat.

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