Recent content by David71201

Tam, the Tesloop data you provided is fascinating. I did click on the link and saw that they were charging to 100%. I am hoping that, by charging from about 20% to about 80%, my degradation will be lessened. Incidentally, when I switch from miles to energy, it changes from (at the moment) 80...

No, I have a house. The problem is that when I try to charge at home, the the charger blinks red twice, indicating no ground wire. But I do have a ground wire. So, until I can solve this mystery, I am unable to charge at home.

I recently purchased a used 2015 Model S 70 with 147K miles. Currently I am only able to charge at a supercharger ten minutes from my house in here in Monroe, LA. I realize that this degrades the batteries more than if I was charging at home. My question is, how much additional degradation...

Thank you all for your input. The reason why I posted it is because of an incident I had. Two years ago I was visiting my mom, who has a Chevy Spark EV. I was driving it to a friend's house. When I was about 5 miles from his house, the car indicated 5 miles of battery left (which we all know is...

I have seen many discussions about using portable solar panels to charge an EV while camping or on a road trip. As has been often pointed out, trying to charge the car's batteries a significant amount just isn't practical. However, suppose you simply need to charge your EV just enough to drive...