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As for the suggestion that EA, or some other CCS/Chademo network, is the answer. The Chademo adapter hasn't been available from Tesla for years — and is a nearly dead format anyway — and CCS adapters won't work at all with older cars, so far as I'm aware. I'd love to be wrong about the latter...

Yes. My last time limping from Farmington to Albuquerque at slow speed in March, I charged at the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center on Level 2 to make it the rest of the way. If a Supercharger Station came to Grants NM I'd just go the slightly longer way and skip the US 550 direct route (223...

When I investigated Bluetooth transmitters some years ago I found that they did NOT work with Tesla. They were intended for home use and were not compatible, for reasons that I no longer recall.

I use the FM radio to listen to audiobooks on my little Sansa Clip MP3 player, using an FM transmitter. Kludgy, but it works. Tesla couldn't be bothered to include a 3.5 mm jack to plug the MP3 player in directly. Given that many of us, myself included, use phones via Bluetooth to listen to...

"Higher taxes" is relative. It isn't widely known but Colorado has the fourth lowest property taxes in the country (source: Kiplinger's). My property taxes for a house on five acres in a rural county are currently $1382 (although I paid $988, due to the senior exemption). That's rather low...

^ I have MCU1 without the emmc upgrade (so far, still waiting). It is LTE (4g) and voice commands work fine when the car has a bar or two of cell reception, which is most places nowadays.

While I agree that parking lot solar offers significant benefits from shading cars, at least in sunny and hot areas, suggesting that it reduces the heat island effect gives me pause. Solar panels are dark colored hardscape that get plenty hot. I would guess that they would contribute to the...

^ Two cars at the same time. That is a crowd for Lamar!

Not likely! Simple attrition will cause the early cars to disappear. Even now the old S-85s and S-60s are just a tiny number of cars on the road and at the superchargers. Next time you are at a crowded Supercharger Station see for yourself and do a count. We aren't the problem. I've only had to...

Lucky you! I routinely charge for an hour to an hour and a half in my S-60 to do longer trip legs. And I've had to turn back three times due to headwinds when I just couldn't make it and there were zero Level 2 options enroute (very common in the Intermountain West). This is over 128,000 miles...

My last 90,000 miles have averaged 266 Wh/mile in my S-60, so your numbers seem high to me, given that the Model 3 is so much more efficient than my old 2014 Model S. Perhaps you do mostly high speed driving? I realize that I am an outlier, but I usually make my overnight stops at campgrounds...

This is in the category of "suggestion" since I've only done your route 1, a moderately scenic and easy drive through the mountains via Payson. Albuquerque to Holbrook strikes me as a rather short day, only 233 miles, about three hours. So, I'll suggest a side trip through Petrified Forest...

Supercharger rates have gone up a lot recently. However, they are still cheaper than gas by most measures, unless one is comparing to a Prius. I charged at a new Supercharger Station (Lamar CO) last week that was at 43 cents/kWh. That works out to less than 13 cents/mile for my old S-60 or...

Westbound to Walsenburg there was a fair amount of traffic for so late on a Sunday night on obscure roads. I was surprised.

Gallup and Holbrook were part of the original transcontinental Supercharger route (along with Grand Junction, Moab, Blanding, and Farmington). Tesla was still learning about where to install Supercharger Stations and likely had to take what they could get. Now, I would guess, Supercharger...

I can't see this location getting much use. Lamar? The number of drivers using that stretch of US 50, versus the Interstates, figures to be tiny. Yet Tesla never gets around to putting in a Supercharger Station in Alamosa, gateway to Great Sand Dunes National Park, or Cortez, gateway to Mesa...

Yes, by thirty minutes or less! I did a 99% charge and didn't make it to my campground in Lathrop State Park, near Walsenburg, until after midnight. I was wondering if anyone from Custer was going to head here. Eastbound Amtrak train came through and did a slow and go while I was waiting. I...

22 May 2022: 362. Lamar, CO (possible first) Have camping reservations at Lathrop State Park, near Walsenburg, a favorite of mine.

Then there are those (few) of us who still have FUSC (Free Unlimited SuperCharging). 126k miles at zero fuel cost... :cool:

I have found myself doing the opposite at times when nav doesn't think I can make a destination and routes me to an intermediate stop or recommends returning to the previous stop. I end up selecting my next destination and using "remove charging stops" to force nav to calculate the actual stop I...

IIRC, Cedar City UT and the second site at St. George UT (Convention Center) also were pallet Superchargers. Not unusual, as you know.

It was a long (600 miles is a lot for me) hard day in the rain: 7 AM to about 1 AM when I stopped for the night at a rest area south of Ellensburg. I didn't post my list until afterward to keep the posts more compact. I haven't been trying to keep track of where everyone is. There are a lot of...

15 May 2022: 347. Tumwater, WA 348. Lacey, WA 349. Auburn, WA 350. Federal Way, WA 351. Seattle, WA - NW Ballard Way 352. Seattle, WA - NE Northgate Way 353. Bothell, WA 354. Bellevue, WA 355. North Bend, WA 356. Leavenworth, WA 357. Entiat, WA 358. Moses Lake, WA 359. Ellensburg, WA - Canyon...

14 May 2022: 344. Kelso, WA 345. Aberdeen, WA 346. Forks, WA Rained all night at L L "Stub" Stewart State Park in Oregon but this morning was pleasant. Did several hikes, including part of the "Rails to Trails" path:

I routinely use L2 public charge stations in the city where I go grocery shopping or to see a movie. I plug-in and walk to the store or theater. The 7 kW L2 stations there are well used. The public L2 stations in the small town (Ridgway) nearest me get well used; helps that they are 8 kW. They...

9 May 2022: 342. Hood River, OR 343. Troutdale, OR Pretty drive over the east side of Mount Hood. Some visibility problems with ground fog from fresh snow evaporating from the warm road surface. Camping in L. L. "Stub" Stewart State Park for the next five nights, while dealing with family...

8 May 2022 341. Hines, OR I've been waiting for this one for years, to take the direct route from Ontario to my sister's house near Terrebone. (So now she's thinking of moving back to the wet side because she's tired of drought, smoke and fire danger.) ^ Hines OR Supercharger Station. Wild...

Not so! I think there is a naming confusion between the two new ones in SLC. My previous one was the one at the SLC service center. This new one seems to be called the same on Tesla nav: ^ Note that this is the new V3 station with eight stalls. I think supercharge.info has it as Marketplace...

7 May 2022: 340. Salt Lake City, UT - S 300 W That's it for today; slim pickings on a route I've done seven times before, at least here in the Intermountain West.

With regard to arcing, when unplugging: if you were to unlock your port with your fob, screen or phone, wouldn't that shut off current? Do that before unplugging and I would assume that the car is no longer drawing current and the adapter is safe to remove from the CCS plug.

As I guessed, even though the block of 1st Street is closed the Superchargers can be accessed from the alley, from either end. ^ The orange cones at the left mark the Uncompahgre Avenue entrance to the alley.

As best I can tell from a thirty mile distance, parsing news reports, the block of 1st Avenue used to access the Superchargers may still be closed. It should still be possible to get to the parking lot through the alley, although I am guessing about that. It appears that power has been restored...

There was an explosion and fire this afternoon at a medical supply company adjacent to the Montrose Supercharger Station. Access to the Superchargers may be closed off for a time.

Another Greenworks sale at Amazon today. With so many other brands of battery electric garden tools available, this is likely only of interest to someone who already has Greenworks tools. Things sure have changed since this thread was started...

Yes, good point. I've been told that my NG connection fee is going up from about $12/month to about $20. So, $144/year to about $240 a year. Would be nice to get rid of that cost.

Being energy conscious was a goal in designing my house and using an on demand water heater: it only heats water when the water flows, rather than heating a tank that just sits most of the time. Back then I was on propane and it was expensive and had annoying yo-yo pricing patterns. Back in...

Depends on the water heater, I suppose. Mine hangs on a wall, well off the floor, and measures 18 inches wide by 30 inches tall by 8 inches deep. Does have a five inch flue above it, however. I gather that this thread was created to dis on demand (tankless) water heaters and that's what mine is...

That electric rate does close the gap with Supercharging costs considerably! I don't have much in the way of shading issues with my ground-mount solar arrays (I cut some trees), although I do have to pull snow off of them frequently in winter, something that you don't have to do where you live...

Those things in that article are gigantic! Serious McMansion stuff. I haven't the space for something like that. My water heater is a small unit that hangs on a wall. I hope they make smaller ones that don't take up so much space. My NG use for cooking and water heating is 2 therms a month...

And another one: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/opinion/climate-change-gas-leaf-blowers.html?smid=url-share Haven't had a yard with a lawn since 1984. Even back then I used an old style reel push mower.

Since Tesla almost certainly pays Demand rates for electricity, it is very hard to gauge how much their cost is. Stations that are heavily used, even just once per month, can lead to significant demand charges. As you say, we Supercharging customers use our home electric rates as a proxy to...

The Model 3 is pretty efficient, as you know. EPA par for my my big and old S-60 is 300 Wh/mile. I do a lot better than that overall — my last 70k miles has averaged 266 Wh/mile — but I would guess that road trips are about EPA par, due to high speeds on Interstate highways. So 3 1/3 miles/kWh...

You likely won't be able to see April charges until May but you can keep track of your Supercharger visits on the Tesla website: https://www.tesla.com/teslaaccount Login, then select the "Charging" tab on the menu on the left. You should see your charging history through the end of the...

Nobody here in my little Ouray County, population 5000, knew what they were for. Green lines aren't much used for EV charging spaces over here. However, I do routinely use the public charge stations, in part because I want people to see them getting used and in part because I helped pay for...

I've been putting the EV sticker on my cars since it was first introduced around eight years ago but don't really know what it is for. Exempt from emissions testing in the Front Range? Special EV only parking somewhere? I don't really care because I thought it was fun to have on my car. I'll be...

And Tesla calls grey (or gray) "Midnight Silver"! Huh? At least the now-discontinued "Titanium" had a cool name.

I see that you are about to blow past me on the list. Congrats! Meanwhile my car is in the shop for in Denver for some January parking lot damage; April 1st was the earliest appointment I could get at Tesla Collision (lot of pranged Teslas in their lot). So, driving a rental during prime road...

31 March 2022: 339. Denver, CO - 1st Avenue Finally got a chance to clear my home state again. At least until Lamar opens; I have no need to go there

Congrats on the early retirement! I did that too: I retired at age 45 twenty-three years ago; still doing fine living off of savings and by being thrifty. Waiting to take Social Security at age 70, now less than two years away, to get the largest payment, as insurance against the possibility...