Norwegian hypermiler drives Tesla 452 miles on a single charge

The fear your car will run out of battery before you get where you're going—also known as range anxiety—is still the electric vehicle's biggest PR problem. It's a little odd when you think about it, since most of us travel under 30 miles a day. Still, people worry about not being able to just grab their keys and drive from coast to coast without lengthy visits to a plug socket along the way. Bjørn Nyland suffers no such fear. Nyland is a Norwegian-based computer programmer and Tesla evangelist, and he just hypermiled a Tesla Model S more than 400 miles to prove it.

Nyland is already well-known in the Teslaverse, having won a Tesla Model X SUV for referring another 10 buyers to the EV manufacturer, quite some feat, even in EV-mad Norway:

@BjornNyland Provided all ten take delivery, you have indeed!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 8, 2015

Nyland's journey took him from Oslo, Norway, to Rødekro, Denmark, a distance of 452.8 miles (728.7km). That's more than double the commonly assumed Model S range (200 miles/321km) and also nearly 30 miles (47km) better than the previous record for long distance Tesla driving, held by David Metcalfe of Florida. Whether everyone is capable of getting that kind of range is another question. According to Teslarati, Nyland's trip took 18 hours—10 hours longer than Google Maps suggests—and he drove at an average of 25mph (40km/h). Now that's some committed hypermiling.