Recent content by Portland Blue

Plenty of places to eat near the Supercharger, including the restaurants at several hotels that are close by

Great to see Portland get its first in-city charger. Nice location with plenty of businesses. My personal hope is we start getting urban chargers as well. The one at Fox Tower did not end up getting completed IIRC. Hopefully more to come!

This is clearly an oversight. Pretty simple fix that already exists with radio stations. Tesla fix this!

I can confirm the location is up and running. Charged today while scoping out the Columbia outlet store.

Rocky, my post was not stating there is free parking in downtown Portland. Only that Portland has other nice areas that are not as close in that you can put free Supercharger parking. I'll note that Tesla has been posting on their website plans to put in Superchargers not only downtown, but in...

Comments on the comments. 1. Yeah! Waiting for this for a long time! 2. Yes, this is a great location. Multiple restaurants, shopping, bars.... Smack dab in the center of it all 3. Agree, don't want to pay for it. Side note- we are the consumers and can influence policy. Surprised how folks...

Cool. Just to be clear, making the frunk smaller for the far majority of the people that didn't get a HEPA filter was absolutely terrible. A major waste of space that could have been a big positive.

If you put 5-10 superchargers in a single city, 99.999% of parking spots in the city can be with fees and the 5-10 spots could still be free. You only need a few free spots.

There are plenty of places to put superchargers in urban cities that are FREE to park (depending on the city). If that's the case, I would hope Tesla would CHOOSE to place them in free areas to park (e.g. Shopping areas)

Portland.

Tesla can get improvements remotely. People can keep cars for 10-20 years now. Maybe not here on this forum, but in real life. Those two things make exchanging a battery an option. Market will drive the price.

Thanks Tao. Very helpful. Looking at the website, it's $7.50 per DC session and $4 per level 2 session. I sent them a message asking about within the city chargers. There are definitely CHAdeMO stations close to my place on Plug Share map, and I saw one that was EVgo, another that was Blink...

I'll see if I can find a cheaper option with the home charger. There are CHAdeMO's close to my condo, so that would not be an issue. Just to clarify the costs using CHAdeMO: 1) fixed one-time cost of charger adapter: ~$500 2) monthly fee option of $20/month (I suspect I would use 2 times per...

The 49 cents is for commercial chargers. Home is around 10 cents like you said.

Thanks for estimating the mileage. That seems to be doable. I "lose" on cost for charging (40 cents/kWr vs 10 cents at home), but I don't have to pay any up front costs for what appears to be an expensive charger. This also assumes that the stalls are open. How many kWh's for 20 mile charge?