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Yes it did. You are thinking only in terms of how the North American ones were configured. Back in the old regime, where there were single or dual chargers, we thought of them here as the 40A or 80A. And so in our usage, we thought if that charger as 9.6 kW or almost 10. But in Europe, when...

@Ponderosa The thing is, there are two opposite things you can do that are at cross purposes with each other. For the best actual health of the battery cells long term, you can use them in a very small range in the middle area of the battery, like 40-50%. But doing that doesn't give the...

Well, that's kind of listing the worst case, because they don't want to be bombarded with complaint calls if it takes 2 days or 3 days. I've seen many reports of it sometimes being completed same day, but sometimes it doesn't. Yeah, I mean that's a way to make sure you can get home, and then...

I'm pretty sure it never has. That is because: Tesla had already discontinued the 22 kW chargers a few years before 2019.

Well I'll be. I see the writing on the side: 50A and 125/250V, so it sure is a 10-50. Those aren't usually used for dryers. But it's not curious to all of us. You've been doing something risky that pushes the envelope here for a long time. It may run fine for quite some time, but it is very...

I second this, that it is very unlikely that you can get the car close enough to simply plug in directly with the 20 feet length of the charging cable itself, unless the dryer is in the garage, and you can park right next to it in the garage. You would really need to find out what type of dryer...

There are a few things in this that concern me. That would be highly unusual. Dryer outlets are almost always 30A type--either 10-30 or 14-30. Are you sure this is a 10-50 and was it there for something else? Posting a picture of it would help because we might be able to identify it for...

Since the location of @Romain Garin says "Brittany", I am thinking that is European settings, so I should help clarify about the mixed up meaning of the term "Rated", which is different between the two locations. In North America cars, it is as @NV Ray says, where "Ideal" is a much higher...

What color was the light next to the charge port? Still normal stuff, like blue when it got plugged in and green when it was actively charging? Or did it show orange at some point?

I think I'm going to ask you to explain the logic behind this. If an arrogant coach has an "internal company expectation" to threepeat on the next three Super Bowls...and then actually does so...that makes it not an incredible achievement and therefore not worthy of the performance bonus?

That one I can totally see. The sycophant "yes men" club of the board is not very independent. This one I find insane that people believe this was already internally known data through a company crystal ball that they supposedly knew the future. It involved a gigantic growth target of the...

Well...yeah, everyone has experienced it at least once at one time or another. It just depends on what you're talking about: 1. You get the failure to latch message once or twice a year because you didn't happen to push it in far enough. or 2. You really can't ever get it to latch. If it's...

This conspiracy theory that everything on Amazon is fake is wild.

That seems like a really wild accusation. I don't think you have that right. https://www.cerrowire.com/products/resources/tables-calculators/ampacity-charts/ If it's 8 gauge regular wire in conduit, like THWN, that is rated at a 50A circuit and can already run 40A continuous. If it's Romex...

Speaking of, I've always thought Mercedes failed in their marketing department when they decided to call their small electric car the "Smart ED". Really? Do you WANT to make people too ashamed to buy it?

Having some charging available at the site is what matters, though, right? That's why a large stall count and a redundant design matters for good reliability. My worst charging problem experience was one time when I was having to try to make a very long stretch from Redmond, OR all the way 214...

We're really missing a lot of information to go on. Specifically, WHAT are you plugged into? ALL outlets are NEMA outlets. It's like the word "metric". NEMA is the system of naming for all outlets in the United States. 5-15, 5-20, 10-30, 14-30, 14-50, 6-50, etc. are all NEMA outlets. So...

Yes. There have been threads on this for years. The Tesla wall connectors just can't connect to a wi-fi network that uses the newer WPA3 encryption, which basically ALL newer wi-fi systems use. And even if it's a mixed WPA2/WPA3 network, it still can't negotiate that, so it can only work if...

@atikovi It really does come down to this. That S60 can be a pretty good car if you got a good deal on it, and certainly a step up from a LEAF, but Supercharging is not going to be a strong suit of a Tesla that is that old and with that small a battery. To help get a picture of this, it's good...

The charger that converts the 240V AC to the 400V DC to put into the battery is inside the body of the car somewhere. That does have a little heat when it is running, so it is creating some heat inside the body of the car. On my old 2014 one, that charger is under the back seats; I don't...

Oh, right. For an existing outlet, that's the right stuff that would be in there. No, that's not what the white is. It's not "negative". The white is neutral, which is a midpoint at 0 volts between the two hot sides. So if you reeeealy wanted to use the term "negative", you could kind of...

That is intended to be a hard wired device instead of a cord-and-plug type, so you're already violating the manufacturer's installation instructions, and thereby violating electric code as well. That "problem" is because it's not meant to be connected to a 14-XX outlet. Yes, those are the Hot1...

The colors are staying in their lane about telling the status of charging or not, rather than telling about battery level. Blue is correctly plugged but waiting to charge. Green is actually running. Red is some kind of error. And orange is the partial connection.

This is very possible if you would lay off the snark for a minute. When you push the plug in, the port has a latching pin that pushes up into the notch that is cut into the bottom of the handle. If it's almost all the way in there, but a millimeter or two short, the electrical pins will be...

Here's a funny story about those little not secure circular keys. When I went to college, I had a desktop computer from Gateway 2000 (anyone still remember them?). Some of the computers from the 90's era had little circular locks like that on the front, which deactivated keyboard and mouse...

Ah, THAT damned lie. I have seen that disgusting lie posted repeatedly by haters. Here's what's false about it. It falsely claims that the entire $7 billion dollars has ALREADY been spent and only produced two stations, so it can be made to appear as a disgusting waste of money. No. The $7...

It's also about 82 miles to Boise.

Yes, it's still basically the same thing, that the car tells the external DC charger what to send. It's possible the charge curve may be a little bit different just because of the capabilities of the charger. Some of them just have lower amp capabilities than Superchagers, so you may see a...

You're giving partial information. You're being too general when you just say "when charging on 120V". The reason why people are cautioning against that is that 120V can be at various amp levels. So if people have the 5-15 adapter and the 5-20 adapter, they would have to be careful, as the 14...

I think yes. There was pretty broad compatibility across all of the 60/70/75/85/90 battery types in that era. The 100 packs got reworked with some different connections, so it takes more doing I think to get that to swap in.

Those words "heavy duty" in the extension cord world are referring to how thick the rubber insulation is, so it can stand up to being dragged across pavement and gravel and getting scratches and nicks that won't get in far enough to reach the wire. It's not about the wire gauge. I had a couple...

Why would you say that? For garage outlets that are 5-20, which are 120V and 20A rated, they will be running Romex wire inside the house wall to supply that. Look at the ampacity table requirement: https://www.cerrowire.com/products/resources/tables-calculators/ampacity-charts/ It muse use...

I didn't have any hope of anyone actually here in my town, but the only place I can find anyone on this forum mentioning is QC Charge, and they are all the way down in (basically) San Diego. If I could find somewhere in Salt Lake City, Portland, or Seattle, that would be more reasonable.

I just mean a place that would do the service. I am not one to venture into working on my drive unit myself, so I have no interest in buying the part. I have no idea what ballpark the price of this service would even be to compare it. I sent an email to QCC to ask, since they don't seem to...

I've been searching for other companies who do the coolant delete repair, other than QC Charge, and I can't seem to find lists of them. I'm wondering if I have to go to California, or if there is anyone else nearer?

Wow! That is awesome! Yeah, right after the McDermitt one opened, my friend drove through there from Boise, and he said it was still pretty tight for an old degraded P85 with a full charge, so Jordan Valley will alleviate some of the stress and not having to fill to almost 100% if you don't...

That seems really unlikely. I just had it done for my car which was ordered in January 2014, and it was the usual few hundred dollars. I don't think they are doing them free on old cars.

I got that other part of it, where you were talking about some stations already being authorized versus others still requiring the partnership agreement. But where you were telling people to "just bring your own" adapter to a Magic Dock station, that's the part that didn't make any sense.

No, you're kind of missing what the Magic Dock actually is. There is no "bring your own adapter". The Magic Dock IS the adapter. That's the point of it.

It's entertaining that the action movie trope showed up in this thread. The terrorist is threatening the scientist to give him the secret formula. The terrorist starts shooting hostages to force the scientist to comply, and then blames him: "How could you do that? Why did you make me kill...

I don't know if you noticed it, but the prices for replacements at Recell include the cost of the shipping to their shop in Texas, so you wouldn't have to pay extra for shipping both ways. Then you could just add the cost for return shipping or pick it up. Shipping the car back would probably...

Mine just had one of these break off from my 2014 S85. I had scheduled a service appointment, thinking it might be around $200. The estimate came back as $732! I'm not that interested in getting it fixed, since I'm planning to sell this car next year anyway.

I went searching for a thread on this today because this about blew my mind. I noticed the deadfront had broken off, likely in a Supercharger from a recent road trip we were on. So I scheduled the service, thinking it would be about $200, which I was OK with. I was not expecting that $732...

Yeah, that takes some chutzpa to say the wrong thing 9 times in a row, and then suddenly flip and say the opposite thing, and immediately follow it up by arrogantly and proudly proclaiming that what they just told you is absolutely 100% accurate! Um, wellllll...yeah, that is, after you...

Wow, you're really talking to a dim bulb there.

Yeah, I get that's who told you; it's frustrating they don't know how that works. Although I think it is just plain stupid that the adapter is bundled in with it. It is not that uncommon for households to have two Teslas, and if they already had an adapter for one of their cars, and just...

Wow, I've never seen so much crazy jumping to conclusions on several sides of something so fast. So far the last words we saw from the Tesla rep were simply the request to bring the title. That's it. We haven't seen any response that there will be any problem at all. @Killmonger says he's...

@Parsa5 Yeah, whoever told you you need to order that adapter first was definitely wrong. The retrofit kit itself comes with the adapter included in it, and you can't opt out to NOT get it when you get that retrofit.

Wow. You got almost every part of that story wrong. Musk deserves about all the criticism he can get for many other reasons, but I do get tired of people getting about 90% of that particular story wrong and manipulated into aspects that are just blatantly false. Here are the corrections about...

Did people forget how this actually happened?! This was something that was proposed and accepted based on stratospheric milestones that most people thought were crazy impossible. It's like if you structure in a new quarterback's contract that he gets a gigantic bonus if he wins the next FOUR...