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While the OP has confused level 2 charging cables with DC Fast, it's not out of the question to make a cable which did liquid cooling and plugged in. It would not be easy, you would need to get a good and verified coupling on the cooling fluid link and it might not be worth it. And overall...

Well, now that there's almost nobody working on the Supercharger team, an interesting question to monitor will be how long it takes them to replace these cables.

I'm pretty sure Tesla builds a mathematical model of expected traffic. They have precise data on how many Teslas drive every road and what SoC they are at when they drive it. They have forecasts for their future sales. They also have less precise data on total traffic of non-Tesla...

Perhaps talk to a company that does thin film panels, which are lighter, and might be within the tolerances on your roof. Or talk to a neighbor who has a strong roof, and see if they want solar. Fill his roof -- you pay for more than half -- and share the power between the homes with a...

That Tesla feels they must try to work on the 2016 hardware is their curse, not their blessing. All the other teams followed a fairly sane development process. Let the team use not just the best sensors of the day, but to plan to use newer and better ones which are not yet available, or...

Yes, we know that given the power of the human brain, it is possible to drive at human level with just vision (and sound and acceleration.) "Human level" isn't that great but it's acceptable at present. Given the power of the human brain. Not simply its perceptive power but its reasoning...

Well, while it's not a settled question, the prevailing opinion is that Tesla FSD as it stands won't ever be able to self-drive. I would not say it is impossible, but with that hardware setup it seems low probability. There's a silly canard about how because humans can drive with just their...

They aren't a taxonomy of autonomous driving. They are a taxonomy of roles of humans in partially autonomous systems. If that's useful, it's only for a short time. They mostly confuse people, and make them think that a self-driving car and a driver assist car are two "levels" of the same...

People don't get that the levels aren't a real thing. I mean they're a real document that was created by NHTSA around 2012 before anybody had deployed anything, then taken over by SAE, which is engineers from the legacy auto industry. They weren't created by the leading teams working on...

To Whitehorse are planned, you can see them on plugshare, but not yet under construction. CCS/CdM though. And two to complete the road to Yellowknife are also planned.

Juneau is no problem. I mean the only way to get there is by ferry, and you can charge before getting on the Ferry. It's unlikely you would drive 200 miles while there -- there's only 44 miles of road to drive! If you plan to overnight, just get one of the hotels with or near Level 2...

Tesla has said otherwise, and so far have acted otherwise but it's changing. Today they say they want the charging network to break even, so they can run it without cost, and it provides the benefits above. SC continue to be better for Tesla drivers, with lower price, better experience...

Well, sort of. The old cars are the old cars, but the number of non-Tesla EVs out there is only a small fraction of cars. Now I would have said now that everybody switched to NACS and wants Tesla SC, nobody would design a car that doesn't put the port where it can reach Tesla SC, but in fact...

I disagree. They know where Tesla owners would go if they could, because they can get data on where gasoline powered cars are going. What they should do is start by saying, "Where do people go with gas cars that they don't go in Teslas?" In particular look at the ratio of miles driven by...

I feel Kenab is a bit of a waste of the voting system, but then most of the voting winners are wastes (though Bryce is an example of a good one.) Kenab has a quality CCS station, which like most CCS stations will add NACS soon. So while it's nice to have an SC, it wasn't needed. Where one...

The NEMA connector is not to spend time at an RV park, except in emergencies. On the other hand, I have used it fairly often when staying at motels which have an RV park (or just a few RV hookup spaces) or at RV parks that also have cabins, which are fairly common. In fact, the 14-50 will...

I also recommend stopping at Zion, where a large fraction of the hotels have charging. There is also charging in the parking lot of the park, and since in summer you have to park there and take the shuttle, it's a perfect time even for level 2 charging to boost you up. It costs $5. You...

While in theory you can do this without a long range, there are a number of side trips along that route that made me wish I had one. So instead I've stayed in Hanksville to fill the car overnight. Green River is a boring supercharger -- the museum is always closed, and there's just the one...

I will confess that at least for now, there is a bit of fun in the challenge of doing an EV road trip well off the beaten path. I carry the CCS adapter at 14-50, 5-15, 5-20 and TT-30 adapter and have used them all. But I've never had to stop mid-day for level 2 charging (though if there is...

I suspect not. Is FSD enabled in BC yet? Otherwise, the non-BC parts of the trip were 99% highway it sounds like.

Yeah, for some time white was the free colour, and I guess folks in Vancouver like saving money because it seemed every Tesla there was white.

I've stayed at Ruby's twice in the last year. They have Tesla destination chargers and an RV park (though the RV park is closed in winter, turns out they have a few RV spots at the main hotel which are open.) So I've charged up my car on those stays. The first stay I took the last spot...

Well they certainly *can* do it, but I don't know if they will. For Teslas they just change your charge target and you can change it right back, even in the app. I will admit more than once to eating in a restaurant, and finding the car hit 80% or whatever level I needed, and increasing the...

As you know, when stations are high usage, Tesla dials down your charge limit to 80%, though you can raise it again if you need to. I don't know if Tesla would be able to change the charge limit in a Bolt, but they could just stop charging and put an alert into the app explaining what has...

I did a long Tesla trip through BC in 2021. Highly recommended, but I had the CHAdeMO adapter and today I would use the CCS adapter. At the time, there were few SC except on the trans-Canada highway but lots of other stations, and in the rural areas, many of the fast chargers stations were...

Well, I love French and Spanish road trips and do one every year (and I live in California.) So that makes your trip make sense. But even in a Tesla with its low energy cost and low maintenance you must realize you are depreciating the car and paying other costs -- amounting to probably 40...

Is that a Tesla facility, or just a bar near the supercharger (of which there usually is one at most superchargers.) Tesla built a custom Tesla lounge at a couple of superchargers in the USA, but didn't go further with it. It's a building with a coffee bar, vending machines, lounge areas...

While all of these have been suggested many times before, I think Tesla resists anything that needs maintenance. The one on your list that doesn't need maintenance actually comes with a cost benefit for Tesla. Not free wifi, but wifi for those who have premium connectivity, both if there is...

Hopefully there won't be a lot of contention. Certainly there are Tesla drivers who will resent the appearance of any non-Teslas at the stations, and certainly of ones that will block a charger they aren't using. They might act, even if they got there after the Ford, to quickly move to the...

Tesla shows you how full every station is. If a station is near full, and you have a Ford type car, you might want to try for another station, or a CCS station, because you are very likely going to have to wait, or be an asshole at that station. If you have no other choice, you may decide to...

Again, there is little point of arguing "what is L5" because no leading self-driving team cares about it, or is trying to make it. It was made up by people not building self-driving cars, it is of no particular importance. Now, you can have debates about what service area a car might work in...

The leading self-driving teams also have no expectation of reaching this "level 5." Understand that most of them don't really even use the "levels" for any engineering or design purpose, though they get used in conversation. The levels were created by government regulators, then taken over the...

That would work for you but of course is quite selfish, and since you would need to be waiting by your car, you have to be a dick in front of everybody who is waiting in the line, which of course some people will do but there is some pressure not to. If this becomes a problem, Tesla could...

Road tripping in EVs is reasonably easy in Teslas but not without adventure at present. However, getting caught at zero just almost never happens because there are many possible ways to avoid it. Predictions by the Tesla in-car system and ABRP will have error, not just because of the system...

Station for every EV driver (or most drivers) is definitely the way to go. You want to just park and plug in and forget about it, so it's no effort out of your day. That's the ideal EV experience. Definitely not level 3 which is not only hugely expensive but a worse experience. Level 3...

If a Ford parks in the empty space next to the right most stall and plugs in, a Tesla can plug in the space on the other side of the right most stall, and use its charger, and no stall will be blocked. Additional Fords can continue to park on the right, and additional Teslas (and similar...

She worries how she's blocking a stall for a Tesla, but doesn't figure out if she just goes to the right hand side, she won't. No surprise as Tesla and Ford don't explain this.

I could see people wanting one. As it is, stations that are more than half full, and certainly those that are 75% full, may have no space available for a Ford configuration car when one arrives. As long as all empty slots have a Tesla on their left, a Ford can't charge, unless the...

The car would not take up 2 spaces if it parked on the right hand side of the bank, and in particular, Tesla could force that by refusing to let it activate charging in anything but the right most stall available. (If that stall is broken the user could say they need another.)

It's not so much about thought, as cost. Tesla's more common curb stalls with short cords is very cost efficient. Other chargers cost $150K to $200K to install. Tesla seems to pull it off for about $30K-$50K per stall through a variety of techniques. Yes, Tesla is really that much...

There have been many hardware vendors who sold products that need constant remote support to be operational, and those vendors went out of business, or just decided to end support for the product. Sometimes this results in the product being bricked after a period of time. Sometimes the...

I think the ethos is to do what you need to do to charge. Now, if a station is low-usage, have at it and do whatever is most convenient. If what you do is going to block other people from charging, then you do have an ethical consideration. It would certainly be courteous to unhook...

As I said, if they have the money, then of course have more EVSEs. But parking spaces already exist, you are not building them. It's a question of do you space the EVSE every 2 spaces or every one. Doing it every 2 spaces costs somewhat more as you must trench an extra 10 feet of...

It always seemed like overkill. There was one thing that would have been very useful on a two-cable station, which would be to give it two parking spaces, so that when the station is full, people would plug into the other cable and start charging when the first guy is done. You could keep...

In the early days, Tesla put chargers up on the curb, and made the cords pretty much exactly the length to reach a Tesla and not much longer. This is, quite simply, the lowest cost approach so no surprise they took it. Charger docks in the asphalt is a fair bit more expensive, you have to...

I have not charged a Tesla in Europe, but every picture I see of a supercharger has the stalls configured for easier access than many of those in the USA. In the USA and Canada it's common to have a parking backstop and you need to get your tires right up to it (going under your rear bumper) to...

Of course they do. It's basic safety for electrical circuits at this level of power and lets you adjust current based on conditions rather than fixed spec. There are also temperature sensors at multiple locations in your Tesla Mobile Connector, and I presume the wall connector and the car...

Of course, these cars all have access to the CCS stations they use today. And I use CCS stations myself when in certain areas, or I simply use knowledge of their existence to remove any range anxiety in more remote areas -- I know that if I detour and won't make the SC, I can top up at them...

This has been widely talked about. There were many teardowns and discussions when the Tesla/CCS adapters and clones came out. I googled it for you, here's a ford rep talking about the sensors in the Ford adapter.

The Tesla/CCS adapter for Teslas has temperature sensors in it, and I will presume the magic dock adapter and the customer owned adapter have such sensors, so I think a cable could also have them.