Recent content by SVMike

Tesla has been, roughly, doubling the number of stalls in the US every 4 years since the model 3 began shipping. So even if they do not increase that rate, but they start adding longer cables and/or drive thru locations they can allow for different configurations over time without too much...

Maybe "grid connections" are the new real estate?

What you say makes sense. But it also makes sense that if you bought a new car without stalks you'd intentionally limit yourself to driving on nice sunny days for the first week or two until you developed the muscle memory for the new layout, then you'd be good to go on a dark rainy night. The...

You should setup your own account a credit card before you get blocked from using a Supercharger. Last summer I lost my physical credit card while on a long trip. I immediately cancelled the card and started using a different one, but forgot it was the card on my Tesla. For a couple of days I...

I was replying to one-pedal driving. Are you saying you cannot turn this off and on like I could in my 2018 M3 years ago?

No, I love it. But you can chose to use it or not. If you must switch drivers you can change it. You can even setup a guest profile with it off You can't add a stalk when a friend or family member needs to unexpectedly drive the car because of an emergency (like their car is damage or someone...

Logically knowing what to do and having automatic muscle memory just do it are two different things. Now imagine the occasional driver has to drive at night on a congested freeway and has to signal to move over a couple of lanes. It probably won't be a good experience...all to save, maybe $50 on...

For me the biggest problem with no turn signal stalk is for the occasional driver of the car. I have no doubt that after a few days or weeks I'd get used to it as most would. But what about a 2nd driver that rarely uses the car and has to use it on rare occasions. They would hate it. There are...

The savings of $6500 in the first year is highly suspect. This means, on average, a homeowner would save over $500 per month. I have had solar for over 8 years so I have a near zero bill now...but I never even had a bill that high for combined electric + NG, much less been able to save that much...

This has happened to me a few times. I have FSD installed but it has never been turned on when this warning happens. It has always happened just a block or two from my home in almost the exact same spot...a one lane road approaching a major road am I'm getting ready to move to the right to turn...

Are you driving from CA to NH? I can tell you that on I-80, for example, I found every charger I stopped at very easy, at least from CA to UT. Most Interstate Superchargers I found were at shopping centers or restaurants, sometimes at the far side of a large parking lot

I've been to both Reno and LV. In Reno I stayed at a Marriott (Courtyard?) that had a Destination charger and a generic J1772. Dest charger was broken, but the other was available both nights I was there. I even went an unplugged at ~11pm when not yet full but in the morning no one was plugged...

Actually they are ChargePoint. And they are 208v

FYI, looking something else up I found out that each building is 4000 amps at 480/277 volts (I guess this means 3 phase) Depending on how that math works it is 1 or 2 MW. 50 L2 chargers (usually 6kw) would be 300kw, so a pretty big add to a parking garage that has just some lighting and...

The facility was built from 2013-2017 and consists of 3 other similar 6 story parking garages and 8 office buildings ( 6-8 stories each) plus shopping, restaurants, gyms, etc. The ChargePoint chargers are $3/hr or free for the first 4 hours (paid by the various company tenants). Nearby the same...