Recent content by wayner

Assuming that you have a thermostat with a schedule you should be able to set your cooling schedule to cool more before 4, then raise the temperature setting by a couple of degrees from 4-9, and lower it after 9. That's what I have done here in Ontario where we have had TOU billing for years...

Port Hawkesbury is also less useful to those going up to Inverness along the west coast of CBI. I do this 2-3 times per year, but in rental cars.

I am still at 95% of initial capacity after 9.4 years. That's assuming that I can trust the rated range as much today as I could in 2015.

Almost four months ago since this site was noticed and not much going on.

Elon has reversed course and Tesla is now apparently re-hiring some of the people that were just fired: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-rehires-some-supercharger-workers-weeks-after-musk-s-culling

Good to hear, but I wonder who is going to do this expansion if there is no one left in the SC group.

Well of course prices have dropped because new prices have dropped. Your not going to buy a used Tesla for the same prices as a new Tesla, even if that is wll below what the original owner paid a year or two ago. I would expect the used market to fall as much on a percentage basis as new cars.

By that do you mean that they have all been fired, or that there never was a Supercharger team in Canada? If it was the latter and the team was in the US, which I suspect, then it is likely that they are gone.

There hasn't been an uptime issue, but that is one of the main differentiating features of Tesla SCs vs other high speed chargers - they are very often down. The worry is that now that there is no one overseeing SCs that uptime will become an issue in the near future.

The last photo was posted about two weeks ago but that shows little progress from the original photo from Jan 31.

Yes, and if that other story is right about cancelling the four SCs in NYC that isn't good either.

They announced two weeks ago that they are laying off 14% of the staff in Buffalo. But it isn't clear if that staff works on charging. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-layoffs-include-14-buffalo-workers-warn-notice-shows-2024-04-17/

It looks like even previously announced sites are not safe: Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team

Elon fired a huge proportion of the Twitter staff within days of taking over. He didn't have weeks or months of prep work when he did that. And it seems that he didn't give people proper severance and has been subject to lawsuits.

I wonder how this will affect the SC build out in Canada. But I can't imagine it will be good. It appears that SCs already in the pipeline will be built out, but it isn't clear if there is anyone left to build new SC sites. I also wonder if it will affect the reliability of existing sites...