Our 5,727-Mile Tesla Model Y Road Trip to the Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Coast

Videos coming later. This trip has not yet been edited and published on our YouTube channel. Until then, here is the trip data I tracked along the way.

Driving vs charging

• 117.75 hours driving vs 23.07 hours Supercharging, about 1 hour of Supercharging for every 5.1 hours of driving (11.76 minutes of charging per hour of driving).
• 49 Supercharging stops, adding 1,719.26 kWh. Another 217.4 kWh came from AC (Level 2) charging over 78.72 hours (time we weren't waiting on it).
• 1,936.66 kWh charged in total (DC + AC); 1,805.42 kWh used driving.
• Average efficiency 315.24 Wh/mile at an average temperature of 74°F, with the Thule hitch box on the back for every drive. That's the lowest Wh/mile of any trip we've done, so the hitch box has either zero effect on range or it increases range.
• Longest single leg: 173 miles from Salem to Chemult, Oregon in 2 hours 47 minutes, using 85% of the battery (94% to 9%) at 335 Wh/mile.
• The trip started on new tires at 10/32nds and ended at 8/32nds.
• ℹ️ Two energy numbers: TeslaFi: 1,805.42 kWh at 315.24 Wh/mile over 5,727.16 miles. Car trip meter: 1,769 kWh at 308.3 Wh/mile over 5,739 miles. TeslaFi totals each logged drive day by day, while the car’s trip meter measures continuously, so the two come out a little different. The rest of this page uses the TeslaFi numbers.

What it cost

A 27 mpg vehicle would have cost about $854 (15¢ per mile) and a 32 mpg vehicle about $721 (13¢ per mile), so without free Supercharging the Model Y would have cost about the same as an efficient gas car. The big savings come from charging at home: over 33,000 miles and 264 Supercharging sessions our average Supercharger price has been 37¢ per kWh, while home electricity in our area is about 11¢, 70% less.

That's $133.24 per day on average. Food of all types came to $904.22, or $129.17 per person.

Where we went

Parks and monuments: Glacier National Park, Banff, Jasper and Mount Robson, North Cascades, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Olympic, Crater Lake, Redwoods (including a drive-through tree) and Lassen Volcanic.

Other stops: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site, the Jasper SkyTram, Dunster Station, the Vancouver area and Point Roberts, Cape Flattery (the northwesternmost point of the lower 48), and Multnomah, Wahkeena and Bridal Veil Falls.

States and provinces: Utah, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada.

Nights: 9 dispersed camping, 6 in campgrounds, 5 in hotels, 3 in an Airbnb and 1 with family.

All data tracked with TeslaFi.

Day by day