Recent content by bjrosen

Under normal circumstances Vermont is in pretty good shape Supercharger wise. Yes it would be nice to have a couple more Superchargers along 89 and they certainly should upgrade Berlin to V3 but you can get anywhere in the state pretty easily. The eclipse was a once in 90 years event. We go to...

I tried the EV Connection charger at the Chevy dealer in Montpelier, it didn't work, communication error. I would have saved myself several if CCS wasn't such a mess.

We left at 8:30, by then the line was twice as long as when we got there at 5, the line reached out in to the street all the way to the intersection.

It was unimaginably bad. I charged to 100% before leaving which turned out to have been a wise decision because it allowed us to get to our destination in Montpelier without charging in West Lebanon or Berlin. On the way home we waited 3.5 hours at the Berlin Supercharger which could have been...

I charged at Rockland today. Only 4 of the 8 chargers were working. The V4s are a downgrade for Tesla owners, the cables are much heavier and they require a hard tug to get out of the posts unlike the gentle pull required for V3 cables.

Plugshare shows a couple of CCS chargers that are under construction, the only working ones close to Freeport which has a Supercharger. Also those chargers are pretty much useless, 62.5KW. I just got the chargeport upgrade for my Model 3 on the theory that it would allow me to go some places, I...

What's happening at Rockland? In the app it's offline, yesterday it was offline for a while and then went back on line. It's also not in Tesla's navigation system. I'm planning on going to Camden on Saturday, was counting on using Rockland but if it's not up I'll have to do a deep charge in...

There are two Superchargers near Burlington and another in St Johnsbury, both of which are in the path of the eclipse. I'm going up to East Montpelier which is at the edge, I have a friend who has a farm there. The Berlin Supercharger is next to Montpelier.

The app is showing that it's live, can anyone confirm.

By cabinet I mean the big back end boxes that contain the transformers and power electronics, not the charging posts. The V4 charging posts are taller and have long cables but that doesn't make the installation fully V4. The back end cabinets will list the max voltage, if it's 500V then they are...

The 150 rule is to allow CCS chargers to add Tesla plugs. V3 chargers can do 250KW to all of the cars connected to the cabinet. CCS chargers can only do 150 at 400V, they were designed for higher voltage and lower current than Superchargers. When CCS chargers get Tesla connectors, or when the...

It's still on the app

They are both still V2s. The downtime must have been because of a failure not an upgrade.

I see 0 of 8. It's not live yet.

It looks like St Johnsbury is in the path of the eclipse, there is a Supercharger there. What are you using for eclipse glasses. I just bought a set off of Amazon, they claim to be ISO 12312-2:2015(E) but they are worryingly cheap. Also will phone camera's work or id there a filter for those also.