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Don Burke
@doyendon
Doing what I can to keep the dead dinosaurs in the ground.
Mar 5, 2022 • 46 tweets • 21 min read
For about the next 10 days, this is my playground. 😄🎆🚗🛣️

Will post interesting bits of the trip as a thread. Image Starting the trip off by making my first visit to the Garner, NC @Tesla supercharger. Follow @superchargefeed for crowdsourced updates on the status of superchargers coming online. See a map at supercharge.info. Image
May 15, 2021 • 50 tweets • 23 min read
And the 2021 road trip begins. About 80 Teslas will converge on Custer at the end of the week for the @Tesla rally. It'll be nice to see everyone there. Image Central Ohio is next. I've been trying to get to Chillicothe Supercharger for some time. The whole first part of my journey revolves around that location. Image
Dec 17, 2019 • 10 tweets • 11 min read
Don's FSD Challenge: A thread.
I'm quite proud of this work. It took a lot of effort to set up the framework and learn video editing and how YouTube works.

The result is this video grading the first run of a repeatable 100-mile FSD challenge loop.

youtube.com/watch?v=52-og_… Image The video is part of a playlist that allows you to see the entire run in real time, a condensed run that speeds up the boring stuff, the grading of the run, and an overview of the route.

youtube.com/watch?v=52-og_… Image
Sep 28, 2019 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Okay, so it looks like it'll happen. Long range multi-coat red Raven with FSD. They are updating it right now but it wasn't V10. ☹️ A little sad to be letting Lenny go but his younger sister is a whole different generation of @tesla.
Sep 12, 2019 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
Back in @meijer territory for @tesla superchargers. This one is in Gaylord, Michigan. This is a long stop because we are headed into the UP where there are no superchargers. We will get a little extra juice in Mackinaw at a L2 and then into the void we go. Many thanks to the @MackinawCityMi for putting destination chargers at the marina!

We are doing a little bit of sightseeing of this beautiful city while giving ourselves a little bit of margin for our trip to Escanaba.
Jul 18, 2019 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
Roadtrip underway to attend @RebuildsRich's Electrified Garage grand opening in New Hampshire Friday.

I will be taking a circuitous route through long island and Massachusetts to notch up more superchargers. 1/x 2/ the roadtrip is not starting out very fun as I've been driving in this heavy rain the whole way. It appears to be moving at highway speed right along my route.

Autopilot intermittent
Very hard to see
Increased energy consumption
May 28, 2019 • 17 tweets • 12 min read
Thread 1/x About to begin a quick trip to Walnut Grove, MN. Who knows why that town might be a destination?

This will be a tough trip in the Tesla given our time constraints and the first trip in a long time where I feel an EV makes life harder. Follow the thread to learn why. 2/x This trip has all of the elements to make it difficult in an EV, even a 260-mile-range Tesla:
1) Wed evening family event back at dad's.
2) no superchargers
3) no destination chargers at our stopping point
4) we will need to add at least 120 miles of range using L1 and L2.
May 24, 2019 • 29 tweets • 18 min read
Supercharging at Strasburg, VA, one of my top 3 superchargers in the USA for the kick-off of another EV road trip.

I'm going to do a tough range run straight to Parkersburg West Virginia. This leg is at the very limit of what my car can do. Can I do it? 1/x

Cc @TeslaRoadTrip With so many @tesla supercharger locations in the USA and even longer-range cars than mine, a leg with an energy graph like this is now largely a choice.

My bail out is to divert down to Weston once I get West of the mountains but I don't think I will need that. 2/x
Feb 2, 2019 • 45 tweets • 28 min read
My first big @tesla road trip of 2019 is about to begin.

Destination: A ribbon cutting at the Fort Stockton supercharger.
teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/3358…

Grabbing 6th place on the Most Superchargers visited competition is possible by the end of the trip.
public.tableau.com/profile/don.bu… And we are off. First stop, the just-opened supercharger in Staunton Virginia.