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Also, losses due to time a linear (the awake car uses the X Watts continuously while charging), but losses due to resistive heating are exponential (square of current, P=I^2*R), so the curves are guaranteed to cross somewhere. My old S had dual chargers (80A capable) and my parents have an 80A...

I've never seen this type of "faulted state" occur. The J1772 spec has no "physical insertion without power" state. A J1772 car only knows the charge handle is connected when it sees the pilot signal from the charge statiom. I've never seen any evidence of a physical "plug inserted" detection...

Sorry to hear. To be clear, that is an L3 DC fast charger, combo CCS and Chademo, not an L2 AC charge station. The 2 different charge handles are clearly visible in the picture. A similar thing happened to an F150 Lightning on an Electrify America charger. I don't know who ultimately paid for...

Trying to use departure/charge-end time is the Tesla owner's version of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."

According to this post, the South Burlington, VT store finally got it's dealership license from the state, so they can start selling cars there. Construction is underway at Londonderry, NH. There's no legal reason a ME buyer can't pick up at either location.

Either your circuit is on a lower voltage tap at the substation, or there's lots of load on the circuit (either in your house or the neighbor's). As @Cosmacelf mentioned, you need to see what the voltage is before and after the charge current ramp up for the full picture. But you're with 5% of...

I checked last night. The free 80A/277V HPWC and free 32A Clipper Creek are gone. They have been replaced with a pair of paid Blink stations. Plugshare shows the old HPWC/CC as "restricted" in the correct location, and the new station on top of the building (obviously wrong location). I've...

I should have added 8pm-5am tonight: Nighttime Paving on I-93 in Hooksett I don't know if the southbound rest area is impacted. Plan to charge in Manchester or Concord if necessary.

The Hooksett NB rest area is closed Wed night 6/12/24 (tomorrow) due to repaving.

As long as it's a modern (<3 year old) car. Those of us who own (or owned) old 85kWh S's will disagree with the second sentence...

Does the wire have to be completely hidden in the walls? Depending on the layout, you could install a surface mount receptacle and conduit along the garage wall/ceiling before going into/through the wall. That could greatly reduce labor in general and drywall repair specifically. Of course...

I would counter with turn off all the scheduling crap in the wall connector. Turn on scheduled charging in the car, and set it to start at midnight. Done. I've been doing it this way for years; it works fine. I start at 8pm and let the car go until it's done (my off-peak is 8pm-8am) The...

Yes, parked outside for 8 winters. If your inside parking area doesn’t get below 8C, I wouldn’t worry at all. Also, I would expert your usage to be very predictable, with a similar state of charge at the end of your day and target charge in the morning. You could slow down the charge rate if...

We definitely get colder in New Hampshire than Queenstown; avg lows in Jan/Feb are around -10C, but we’ll have a few nights close to -30C. I could get some pack temp data before/during/after charging sessions next winter.

If I'm looking to get nearly 100% before a road trip, I'll set the limit to 80 or 90% the night before and start charging when off-peak starts at 8pm. Then when I wake up I kick the slider to 100% and give it an hour or so before I leave. Even in the winter, the battery is usually warm enough...

Then why bother? My off-peak rates are 8pm-8am. I use scheduled charging to start at 8pm, that way the car will always be charged before a 6am departure, regardless of whether it needs 30 min or 8 hours of charge time. IMHO, people get too wound up about worrying about when the charge ends...

This is not really accurate. Preconditioning for supercharging will happen any time you set a supercharger as a destination, regardless of how far away it is. If you're an hour out, it will defer aggressive heating until you are closer. Even if the "preconditioning for fast supercharging"...

If I leave sentry mode active, which keeps the car from sleeping, my LR will burn ~8%/24 hrs. If the car was actually charging to 80% overnight, then not sleeping through the night, it would only be down a couple of percentage points max, not almost 20%. Another way to look at it. Assume 82kWh...

Because they are too busy adding new fart sounds and video games to the toybox to add useful features.

You need to get Tesla service involved to see if there is anything in the logs to explain why it is not charging all the way to your set limit. DON'T frame it as a range question, or they are (more) likely to blow you off with the "less than 30% degradation is normal" BS. You are specifically...

But then drive it down to <80% - don't store it at 100%

Good thing I set it before powering up when I replaced my parent's that was giving false overheat errors. I had just finished making the connections, set the dial to D (I think it's D) before going inside to hit the breaker. @hydro - I regularly charge my Y @ 48A on my parent's gen 2 that is...

And I just noticed that my car has downloaded 2024.14.9, installing now...

I did a quick search here last night for 2024.14.8 and found several bugs mentioned. Tesla Update 2024.14.8 Statistics & Roll Out show negative daily installs for .8 and says "Negative numbers mean that an update is no longer available for some vehicles. It can be caused by installation...

I think it may have been pulled back. It started to download, but I stopped it.* Now my car says I’m up to date with 2024.3.25 as of today. It doesn’t have any interest in restarting the download of 2024.14.8. * - The car started downloading it on a long trip last Tuesday. I hotspot from my...

I disagree (sort of). I wouldn’t advise it and I’d avoid it if at all possible, but if you plug in as soon as you get home, you can get some decent charge. I have a friend in NH that only has 120V charging for her 3 and hasn’t told me of any serious problems. But she is retired and doesn’t drive...

Pictures? Could you come up with some sort of suction-cup mount? Either in place of the existing hardware or use suction cups to mount a metal bracket that the magnets grab onto? I’m working on a similar mounting problem for a 2 foot wide amber LED emergency flasher. I’ll let you know what I...

Gen 1 and gen 2 adapters are completely different. Gen 1 are small cylinders (~2" diameter/~3" long). Gen 2 have the wire pigtails and are ~1 foot long. If it looks like your new Gen 2's adapters and physically fits, it's Gen 2. There's no way you could try to connect a Gen 1 adapter to a Gen 2...

When using 120V charging in sub-freezing temps, you must plug in and start charging immediately upon arrival while the battery is still warm enough to accept a charge. If you wait and let the battery cool to below freezing, you're SOL, since 12A@120V is nowhere near enough power to reheat the...

I'll check in a week or two when I'm in the area, if no one beats me to it.

Correct. I charged my 2014 w/ dual chargers at an 80A/277V HPWC back in the day:

Empirical evidence seems to imply that all that is necessary is to stop app/car comms over bluetooth for a bit, allowing "something" to reset. If it happens again, try any one of these: Shutting off your phone’s Bluetooth for a few minutes (10-15?) Power off your phone for a few minutes Take...

That's what the release cable is for, but ONLY after you stop charging (or nasty arcing is a real possibility)

Please people, stop pulling the cable!!! You only risk breaking things!!! If you pull the wrong thing (wires), you will completely screw up your charge port (see post #60 above). The cable releases the MECHANICAL lock pin so you can remove the charge cable in case of an electrical/electronics...

It's not a plug-in mobile connector, so no plug adapter to replace, unfortunately. It's a hard-wired, second gen Wall Connector on a 100A circuit (the car has a 72A charger), with the single red "flash of death" (overtemp). Fortunately, I have a new-in-box Gen 2 that I can replace it with...

All fine and dandy until one goes bad and you have to junk the MC/WC. The temp sensor in parents' Gen 2 WC crapped out and reports overtemp, even on a <50F morning when it has been unplugged all night.

Core charge laws vary by state. @Fourdoor needs to confirm if not in CA, especially if a long distance from the SC. I'd be pretty PO'ed if I drove two hours to pick up a battery and got charged an extra $20 for a core after counting on the opinion of someone 1000's of miles away in another state.

I assumed you were trying to protect it from passengers or people borrowing the car, not the owner/driver. Does the trunk work? You could use a cigarette lighter to USB-C power cord in the accessory outlet behind the left rear wheel.

Power it off the USB in the glovebox, lock the glovebox with a PIN. Use a small hub if you want to leave the dashcam enabled. I use this Anker hub: https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Extended-MacBook-Surface-Notebook/dp/B07L32B9C2/

No specific recommendations, but I'd check the websites of local car clubs that do track days for lists of tech inspectors, then start calling around. COM, PCA-NER, BMWCCA-Boston, and Audi (NAAC and NEQ) immediately come to mind. https://porschenet.com/information/tech-inspectors/...

I picked up my Y in Paramus on 9/13/23. I scanned the docs on 9/25/23 (based on the file date; wanted to keep a copy). I waited until October to register, in hopes of saving a month of fees and getting a 16-month inspection (vs 4 months), but that didn't work (had to re-inspect 2/24).

Bigger is not necessarily better. Resistive (heating) losses increase with the square of current (P=I^2*R). As you increase charge current, there's a point where energy wasted due to heating will outpace energy saved from go to sleep earlier.

I heard the NH State Police closed the highway at Franconia Notch for some reason. That was us. I carpooled w/ friends to Newport VT and watched it from the park on the lake. Waze took us back roads through rural VT, getting back on 91S at Wells River (US 302), about halfway from Newport to...

Thanks for the nudge to go all the way! Although, in hindsight, I think the people who stopped at 91 rest areas just inside the zone of totality did it right. Watch the eclipse from the rest area, then get out before the endless wave of traffic hits.

28 cars en route, >25 min wait, and one stall out. Safe post-eclipse travel, all!

In-car nav shows all 8 now available.

I wound up carpooling with a couple of friends to Newport. Never saw that much traffic on 91 that far north

“Damn flat-landahs!”

PlugShare shows 4 of 8 open, despite Tesla’s report of closure

I was just in the car planning a trip to the border - in car nav shows St J temp closure, 15 min wait at West Lebanon.