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pcmag is a strange media source to find and publish this news. I'm a little skeptical. It matches what we have seen, that the Ford and Rivian nacs adapter rollout has been really slow, with no explanation. Rivian had about 50-100 people get theirs from media reports, online reports didn't find...

Learned a lot reading this thread and watching that youtube video. I was reading the comments on the video and finally came to an answer of my question, what happens to pre-existing cars with J1772, when you put a tesla AC nacs adapter on there, but with 277v power coming in from a 480v building...

Could make it much easier for an EV to go to Owyhee Canyon, explore the area. That's on my list of places to visit.

Agreeing with these two posts - Tesla values FSD at almost nothing based on the purchase price of used cars and trade in values. The current monthly price of $100 makes so much more sense. Part of my rationale for going for the monthly price on it is that we are so far away from having real...

I think we let people make their own decision if they want an ev and have the ability to use whether they have charging or not make sense. Wealthy people can also live in places without charging, and not understand that their condo without say a place to charge is not a great fit until after...

We are so far away from having the software to do this. And it's likely illegal to arm robots or let them fight people in public - it should be illegal. The limitations of software understanding things in a somewhat controlled environment on the road is at best at a poor quality state, and this...

You want them to be fired because they didn't put a supercharger where you wanted, they didn't spend a million dollars on your whim? There are lots of places that need superchargers, Tesla and all big companies have to trade off. It's not like Tesla has already built them in all the places that...

I wish we could stop pretending that maybe there is some tortorous rationale for firing the whole team, panicing their nacs partners and the 100s of companies that were working with tesla on superchargers, sinking your company morale? Whether it's saving money for AI (which is he almost daily...

What happened, that's unacceptable. I have worried about that transfer if I bought a new one and tried to transfer mine.

there's a charging industry company YouTube channel (Smart Charge America), and they seem to be well connected to Tesla. They said Tesla spent $300 million already this year by their estimates, and so it could mean they are only spending $200 mil more. It's at the least still not a good thing to...

Hi, did you find anything out? I'm interested in this process also. I read somewhere you had to get a minimum of 5 chargers to be in tesla's program, but I can't find it now. I want to buy the universal chargers (with nacs and j1772) and use power sharing. If I got say 5 of them, and they had...

The Ford Dealership there doesn't have a charger listed on plugshare that I can find, you are referring to West Hills Ford? Wonder if Port Orchard Shell Recharge is still free, didn't find anyone commenting about that on plugshare.

I charged at the one in Boise, Sonic Drive In | Boise, ID | EV Station

They put the fence up but did they "break ground"? Most important supercharger status point in today's world, unfortunately.

Went by today, there was a sizable crew working, no way it can be cancelled, eh :-)

I also went on a long drive from Seattle to St Louis in my 2015 S, about 2,200 miles. I had a lot of the same experiences as you. My 10 year old S is still a great car to drive, I love driving it. I'd consider a new S for faster supercharging and more range. My car had lost about 20 miles of...

He should be working to bring those ct v2X features to the other cars, that would increase sales. Maybe start with the more expensive ones. It's very obvious those would increase sales.

It's just yet another poor decision that persists because of one person's stubbornness and instistance that this will get the engineers to solve it. A much better approach would be "we have this easy solution that is low cost and trusted, let's keep using that while we figure out the rocket...

The whole idea was to help low income people get an ev. That's a laudable goal. Limiting state budget spend is a laudable goal too. I'm glad I wasn't asked to figure out the plan. I have read some states (Colorado?) had a limited pool of these ev credits, they'd reach it and no more some years...

I defer to your expertise, but I would think we should call something V4 only if it has the never seen V4 cabinets and V4 posts together? I so want to see V4 cabinets, just to feel like there's going to be progress.

The anti-ev crowed wants to overcharge EV drivers to punish them or something. It's reasonable to charge something since we don't pay gas tax - however the increasing fuel efficiency of cars also reduces the amount in taxes they pay over time. I think there's only a few choices, show them your...

Good but also interesting that they put a relevant and accurate description of the tesla layoff impact here. Sometimes I wonder if people are averse to talking about that stuff with potential future partners or something.

Thanks for all the photos and reports. I don't know how we'll ever know when they have v4 electrical backend instead of v3 electrical + v4 dispensers. I don't even have a e-gmp 800v car, but I still want the capability ;-) 3000 amps, 480v, does that imply anything? Edit, went back and looked...

I looked at Flex EV, I was excited I could join it based on my l2 charger (so as not to share everything about my cars, and also Rivian is not in their listed vehicle types), but they don't support the tesla chargers. I hope they add Tesla, that's got to be one of the most common chargers. I...

Hopefully they can put up some kind of surveillance and figure out who is doing it and stop it.

Is there any support for that view? He fired the most important infrastructure team in the entire EV industry. Everything was working well, except the v4 rollout was going slow. There was nothing really broken. A possibly supportable view would be if you decided the team was broken, but you...

Thanks for all these additions over my partially correct descriptions of the v2 & v3 chargers. Glad to learn about these other details like the possible extensions for v2 chargers to have ccs and the other info. More than anything I want to see widespread v4 chargers built out all across...

I wonder whether they will make some easy revisions to stimulate sales - they could do basic simple body changes, bring back things people wanted. I'm not whining for stalks again (but I'd take them). Some minor body changes like regular car makers do to "update the look"? Bring back am radio...

They did software locked/limited batteries even at the start in 2012.

Normally if you just work within your allotted power to your house, your 150 amp service or whatever, there's no notion of "don't use a little more, the neighborhood is close to the limit". You house has a service allotment, you stay within that, but you are allowed to use your service level...

Might be useful to explain the reason. Originally, Tesla had their own internal protocol from car to chargers (v2 chargers at the time), call it Tesla protocol. V3 and later chargers speak both the ccs protocol and the Tesla protocol. Old tesla cars only spoke the tesla protocol, but starting a...

@SourJellybeans: tesla doen't have to be the beall/end-all for dcfc, also eventually all chargers will be nacs @mborkow: maybe they'll be nacs What changed so that non-tesla dc fast charger sites will now be well run, fixed, reliable that wasn't available to them before? Nothing - now there is...

Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting to see his perspective. Tesla will still make supercharger hardware, someone else will have to decide where to put, run the service. I'm skeptical that will work out well. Only tesla has done a good job at this. I learned recently some of the other dcfc...

Can you name and shame the electric company? That's just such a bizarre and likely ideologically oriented request. Also, the power company is not involved if I add a new circuit breaker in my house, unless I need to increase the service level to my house.

I should have been more specific. I meant tech that would matter much to customers, things that would increase sales or encourage people to buy a new one to replace an old one. Many features came to competitors in that time frame and Tesla chose not to add them. Such as outlets in the cars, v2g...

I want to replace my 2015 S with free supercharging. And I don't want to lose stalks, gear selector, sonic sensors (the cheap easy stuff to add back). I don't have FSD, I have wondered if I could buy an old used Tesla with FSD and do a double move to a new S. My ultimate hope, they cut the price...

Tesla should be doing both. IMHO: there is nothing to gain by destroying the main value creators of the company today (product teams and supercharging teams)! It won't save you much money. They aren't expanding into new factories because their sales are not growing and they have plenty of...

That's the best non-insane summary I've seen yet to explain current actions. Except it doesn't account for firing the supercharger team - that was extremely foolish.

There can't be that many people defending him at this point. "He did great before, therefore ..x y z something.. profit" is the nicest thing you can say about his destructive, childish, angry behavior now. There was one report claiming he was cutting $10b in costs to put more money toward AI...

I just repeated a drive from the west coast to the midwest to see the family in my 10 year old S. It was fun but I'm not doing it again unless I get a longer range car, 400 miles sounds good to me; I decided going from 250 to about 400 is what I need more than anything else. I'd like to keep my...

I think the phev marketing already started. I just dont want tesla to lose superchargers, that's the key thing for the entire industry.

Add the kiddie seats back and save me 7.5k. also stalks and USS. then i'm ready to upgrade, even in the new age of Tesla chaos.

That doesn't make any sense to me - the reason is that all the other charging companies that spent billions of dollars already had that motivation, but mostly what they have is a continuing trash fire of broken chargers, very slow chargers, incorrect status, doesn't work randomly with a certain...

I was planning to trade in my 2015 s with free supercharging at the next option to transfer the charging, for a LR S. If they'd added USS, stalks back, drive selector I would have done it already. I had this fantasy they'd add back all the easy and cheap stuff that doesn't take AI.

This is what I was just thinking about. Make the S somehow able to be qualified as an SUV so under 80 gets the 7500 off. Adding weight or battery to get to 6k is a lot of change. I wonder why the Y counts as an SUV, a web search didn't answer the question.

I noticed it's on the charger map and still says 2024. I just voted for the nearby Winthrop location as a charger site in the quarterly voting.

See if you had free supercharging on FSD as a start. Batteries can be recycled at redwood materials and other companies, there's battery value just as a "crusher vehicle". Also there are battery repair shops in California that know how to fix a few bad batteries (that Tesla won't fix). And now...

I was hoping this would be a magic dock site. Also the location name should not be Leavenworth, how about Coles Corner? Anything but L.

I wish I had a local place in Seattle that could have replaced them for me, but I paid tesla the $1800 or whatever it was. That particular repair seems like highway robbery since the parts are cheap and the videos make it look fairly easy. If I had any guts I'd have bought some heavy duty lifts...

Thanks for that, it's a great resource. Is there a mailing list that would tell me when there are new magic docks, kind of an addition to your tableau viz? I missed the one at Forks, WA until I saw it on your tableau viz!