> At 1.5 hrs/day, we will only ever need to
    > charge when stopping anyway to eat or sightsee,
    > never just for charging itself.

You wouldn't get a lot of people buying a normal gasoline powered car if it took 1.5 hrs to fill it up each time, so electric cars have a lot to make up for in other features if you're using them for road trips like this, rather than just commuting where you're charging overnight.

Wonder if he uses the air conditioning? Wonder how many people are in the car? Are there places he can't visit specifically because there aren't charging stations - sorry I don't know his route. I wish him success, but he seems to gloss over a lot of details ...

He should do it in 7 and take some breaks to see some stuff.

Source: I've done it in 6 and 7 days, 7 was way more fun, way more relaxing and I learned more.

I was wondering why someone hadn't done this. It's a bit of dangerous press. If the car breaks down, or runs out of battery for some reason, that's not going to look good. Bit of a gamble.

Remember that this answers the question "Can you get an electric car from coast-to-coast?" and not "Can you use an electric car for your coast-to-coast vacation?" And that Tesla wants you to think it's the latter.

Clever marketers.

Is there plans on making the supercharge stations available for other manufacturer's electric cars (although not for free)? The thing that could really make this take off is if they can standardize this technology. After all, I don't think gas cars would be as convenient if you had to fill up only at a Ford gas station, or a Honda station, etc.

Even if there are multiple charging standards, just have several charging cables at each "pump".

Anyone know if he is only charging at tesla stations? What's the route he is planning on taking? Is the idea to get food at each stop? Lastly, doesn't he have like 5 kids, how will they all fit in the tesla???

Edit: He does have 5 kids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Family

I'm surprised they don't develop a really cool looking mini trailer battery pack to double (or more) your range. It could have some extra room for storage. It'd be great for longer distance camping trips and such outings. The other option would be a clean fuel cell technology (hydrogen?).

It would have been much more impressive if he were to execute a non-stop trip making use of the recently revealed battery swapping technology. Is there some reason why they can't yet install them alongside all interstate Tesla superchargers?

The big question is when he's going to take that trip. They're supposed to have the cross country capacity only at the end of the year. Why announce it now and wait 4 months to actually do it?

Have the trip details (like route) been released yet? Is he only stopping at Supercharger location? I'd like to meet him and follow along a while. I'm not a stalker. Really. :)

It's great that he has that kind of free time with as much going on as he has.