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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
On my three-and-half-day road trip in 1985 from LA to Maryland in Dad's Old's diesel, we filled up 4 times and had a half tank left over when we parked it some 3,000+ miles later in the driveway at home. 7 mins x 4 fuel stops (wait! I can do this one in my head... two 7's is 14... two 14's is... 28) = 28 minutes total refuel time!
Do I win something? An N95 surgical mask from BGM's hospital?
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Lets run the numbers backwards and give his model 3 LR a chance. Lets say he averages 100 MPH to avoid a battery meltdown. That's a 30 hour of driving, plus ~11 hours of charge time for a total of 41 trip hours.
41 hours minus a half hour for you to get diesel is 40.5 hours of drive time to cover 3000 miles. You would need to average only 74 MPH. I don't know the top speed of your Dads Diesel, but other diesel olds had as-tested top speeds ~100, so 74 is not pushing it.