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    Supercharger - San Ardo, CA (LIVE 28 Jun 2023, 12 V3 stalls)

    We have stopped here a total of four times since it opened, most recently this past weekend. I have roadtripped up to Vancouver, B.C., throughout the Sierras, and down to SoCal a dozen times, and this SC is in my top 3 of favorite spots to charge. The people running the olive mill are outgoing...
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    EV1-A to EV2-A

    Thanks for the help in finding the tariff, which I did manage to find earlier on my own through some more sleuthing and was able to manually program my Powerwalls with the settings. Since I've now been migrated to NEM 2.0 from 1.0, I know we'll be earning a few cents less on our exports. But...
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    PG&E EV2A rate went up by 20% March 1

    I am indeed on NEM-PS billing. I just checked the black and white bill and it says "EVA/NEMPS" which is consistent with the description of my rate plan when I compare rates to other plans on the PG&E website. We'll see how long my luck lasts, although in searching around TMC I stumbled across a...
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    EV1-A to EV2-A

    I also am still on EV-A after having installed two Powerwalls in early 2022. I was just about to re-program my Powerwalls thinking I was on EV2A but fortunately I didn't screw that up and I kept the same TOU periods that I manually programmed in for EV-A. I've been searching for the rate...
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    PG&E EV2A rate went up by 20% March 1

    Quick update/edit: I checked my account info on PG&E's website which says I'm still on the EV-A plan with its TOU periods, which are quite a bit different than EV2A. AFAIK the Tesla Powerwalls don't have a pre-programmed setting for the EV-A rate, so I manually programmed my two PWs for these...
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    PG&E EV2A rate went up by 20% March 1

    I'm on SVCE. I previously was on EV-A for years and then added a couple of PowerWalls last year and now have paired storage. My monthly PG&E bill says my rate plan is "NEM E-EV". This may be a dumb question, but do the TOU windows for the EV2 schedule apply to "NEM E-EV"? My monthly bill...
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    Tesla Virtual Power Plant in CA

    Oh, ok, thanks for the explanation, I'll try again tomorrow assuming we have another event then. Maybe it's just me but the messaging on the Tesla app was not super clear, at least when my PWs started reporting again this afternoon, as I read it to mean that discharging would start at 4 p.m...
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    Tesla Virtual Power Plant in CA

    I'm with SVP/PG&E and just signed up for the VPP option yesterday. I apparently was approved as I received a push notification this morning for the event today. All this morning my app was showing my home's kW # as well as fleet home numbers, both of which were being updated continuously...
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    Not a Supercharger - King City: permit for EV chargers at 560 Canal Street

    Crossing my fingers. I echo the thoughts of the posters who noted the congestion at Atascadero and SLO and hope a new Supercharger in King City would be a most welcome addition.
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    New PG&E EV2-A Rate?

    I am grandfathered in on EV-A until July 2021 but am still considering whether it might be worth investing in a Powerwall or two now while there are still federal tax credits for it available just as a future hedge against rate changes like this. Out of curiosity, I did a rate comparison...
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    Good body shops in So SF bay area?

    I recently used Arseen body shop in San Jose to replace my Model S liftgate and would highly recommend them. I had never heard of them before but a friend told me she had been in the shop just a couple weeks ago and had seen a large number of Teslas being worked on. Before going to Arseen, I...
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    Supercharger - Petaluma, CA (EXPANDED Jun 2018, now 20 V2 stalls)

    We visited this SC last Friday (5/18) and Sunday (5/20) on a roadtrip to Fort Bragg, and in theory there should be 8 operational stalls. On Friday, there were 7 operational stalls (of the 8 that are currently in service), with the one inoperative in the middle of the pack (might have been 2B)...
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    Supercharger - Kettleman City, CA (LIVE 15 Nov 2017, 24 V2 + 16 V3 stalls, lounge)

    I haven't read through all of the posts to this thread so apologies if this was covered before. When I visited this site earlier this week on a road trip, I spoke with a Tesla employee who was working on site (he was in a company MS and taking some data outside, not exactly sure what). I asked...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Yep, looks like my memory was spot on (for a change). These rate increases are much greater than the rate of inflation, and with PGE facing enormous potential exposure from the wildfires in the Fall, they aren't likely to stabilize any time soon.
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Got it, thanks. I'm aware that it basically makes virtually no difference whether we switched over to SCVE or opted out of the transition to stay with PG&E, I mainly just wanted to know the overall cost increases and what you just provided shows that clearly. If SCVE/PG&E wants to keep raising...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    That chart is confusing to me, and perhaps purposefully so. One column has the unbundled generation rates effective April 1, 2017. The next column has the bundled rate effective March 1, 2018. Then another column has the PGE rates also effective March 1, 2018. But I don't see an apples to...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Miimura, thanks for sharing that billing info. I just received my first bill a couple days ago. It took me a while to parse through it and figure out what was going on. The one line item that jumped out to me was the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment which you have flagged in your...
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    bubbles on touchscreen

    I'm at 55,000 miles with an MS60 delivered in Feb. 2013. Bubbles just started appearing a few days ago, and now seem to be multiplying. I did purchase the extended warranty, but still given the frequency and number of people reporting this problem with cars manufactured in 2013, what is the...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Anyone with solar who transitioned over to SCVE receive their new bill(s) yet? Anyone confirm that there is no signficant change to the overall economics from NEM?
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    Seat Belt Malfunction - Had to Cut it to get my son out

    This is great advice which I learned in a first aid course years ago. I've kept a seatbelt cutter with a pointed end in my car and my wife's car as long as I can remember.
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    My annual true-up is not until the end of July so I'm going to wait until then to make the switch (assuming that the economics are essentially no worse on SCVE for NEM if not a hair better). But please post an update to this thread if you see anything that gives you pause when you get your...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Anyone with solar who has switched to SVCE receive a bill from PG&E showing the various credits?
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    $500 PG&E Clean Fuel Rebate

    Mine took close to two months by the time I received my check in early to mid May.
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    Supercharger - Santa Ana, CA (12 V2 stalls)

    I didn't have a chance to post a follow up until now. We visited the Main Place Mall on Thursday around 3:30 in the afternoon. My NAV (hopefully my phone's auto correct won't change this spelling to navy before I hit the post button) was still saying it was closed. When we arrived, all of the...
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    Supercharger - Santa Ana, CA (12 V2 stalls)

    I was unaware about the issues with this SC until today. The navy said this SC was temporarily closed so we didn't stop here and instead went to SJC where we had to wait about 20 minutes (first time I've had to wait at a SC to charge in maybe 3 years). The attendant at the SJCwas unaware of the...
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    INSURANCE - the Gecko was right

    Wow, I'm literally in shock.
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    Tesla has a monopoly. Best to wait?

    So if you can't charge in your condo complex (worth pushing the condo association at a minimum and it might even be illegal for the association to deny building a charger), what is the plan to charge? Even if one of the German makers comes out with a larger battery pack than Tesla's (I'm not...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Got it, thanks for the info. Assuming the info provided by SCVA is correct, I'll most likely make the change to SCVA when my true-up happens. Then I will do a little math to see whether it makes financial sense to do the GreenPrime with a year's worth of data in hand. The slightly higher rate...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Wow, sounds complicated. Hopefully the early adopters can report on their experiences and confirm your understanding and confirm that the billing is being done correctly. Were you able to figure this out, assuming your understanding is correct, by gleaning this from the SCVA materials? I'd...
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    Silicon Valley Clean Energy CCA (Santa Clara County)

    Miimura, as always I really appreciate your analysis and time spent on anything solar, power and PG&E. I've read over just about everything you've posted on these topics just to make sure I'm not missing something important, and my own experience generally confirms most if not all of your...
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    Where is the California Supercharger build out?

    Locals often wait in line to charge at Mountain View and Dublin, and from what I've heard, San Mateo Superchargers. I've seen this quite a number of times while I traveled around the SF Bay Area to/from road trips. I think you underestimate the lure of free stuff for certain people who place a...
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    Help me figure out home charging options

    Ding ding ding. Ditto every word. My UMC has been on a hose reel/make shift charging cable hangar for 4 years for my MS 60. I have used it almost every day between our MS 60 and our MS 85. It only comes off the wall when I think we might need to charge off someone's wall, as otherwise...
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    Where is the California Supercharger build out?

    Four years ago, if you wanted to road trip from SD up to the SF Bay Area, you had to go through Hawthorne. And originally, I think there were something like 5 or 6 stalls there. That was a bottle neck. So was Tejon. And do you remember when Harris Ranch had 1 (one) stall?? Waits were not...
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    Where is the California Supercharger build out?

    Agree, Q1 is not the time to measure the progress of rolling out Superchargers, especially how much rain and snow we had all over the state. Not practical to start building Superchargers in the middle of the rain and snow, and especially this winter with the middle of the second wettest winter...
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    Drive time vs Charge time

    My experience is also quite different. I was carefully tracking times on my two latest road trips taken in a 2013 MS 85, and both had far less charge time. In January, with a fully loaded car (5 people), we drove from Anaheim to Los Altos and back. Actually drive time was about 6 hours and...
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    Superchargers in California will be clogged in 12 months, unless?

    I've taken two long road trips in the past two months, one from SF Bay Area down to Los Angeles and back, and the second from SF Bay Area to Vancouver, BC and back. Only once did I have to wait for a Supercharger, and that was on a Friday night at Buena Park where there were definitely locals...
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    Firmware 8.0 - For Classic Model S

    I just checked the service receipt, and it only mentions the TPMS sensors (it just says "black valve stem" for the sensors) and does not list any ECU receiver. So looks like no dice on being able to see individual tire readings for now.
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    Firmware 8.0 - For Classic Model S

    So, just to be clear, the firmware upgrade + the new TPMS sensors now allows you to see individual tire pressures, right? Was there anything else done to allow that? My 2013 MS60 was in for annual service in December. I had previously paid for the 4 year maintenance plan which included the...
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    2017 Investor Roundtable:General Discussion

    What on earth are you talking about? I just spent the last two days in Carmel at a friend's house and charged my MS85 in his garage using a standard, household 110v wall outlet. I've done this every time I've visited this house over the past few years. In the rare instance when we're at home...
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    $500 PG&E Clean Fuel Rebate

    Update: I called PG&E yesterday to inquire about the status of the application. The rep I spoke to was quite friendly. I have two applications, the first on 1/14 and the second a week later on 1/21 (we were on a road trip and couldn't get the second app until we returned home). Oddly, the...
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    $500 PG&E Clean Fuel Rebate

    I also applied on 1/14 but am still waiting for approval. Anyone else get approved since Friday?
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    How to save a lot of time on long trips

    Bingo. When we took delivery of our MS60 in Feb. 2013, I believe there were only 6 Superchargers in the USA, with 4 of them here in CA. Even so, we had to plan quite carefully how we would travel to places that didn't have any Superchargers like Santa Barbara or Yosemite. Now (and with the...
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    MS60 charging rate

    The 306 mi/hr is an average over the entire charging time and not the actual rate of charging. Still, that is an amazing, high number at 95% SOC. I have an original 60, turning 4 years old in only a few weeks, and I can only dream of charging at such speeds as the tapering is much more...
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    Supercharger - Mountain View, CA (12 V2 stalls)

    And probably 6 of those 7 cars are owned by locals who come to this SC just to get a free charge rather than plug in to their garage. I feel sorry for the 7th who actually needs to use this SC because they're on a real road trip.
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    Supercharger - Bandon, OR

    The four 18 hole courses and one 14 hole par 3 course at Bandon Dunes. Each of the four 18s is world class -- and public. You don't need a member to get you on. However, these are serious courses and if you're playing at peak times during the summer, an 18 handicapper who doesn't play...
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    Fully optioned Model 3 price in USD?

    Get it right, it's not "naysayers" -- it's "Naysayers." Very important to capitalize the "N" as it signifies the Tesla-specific naysayer as opposed to just "naysayers" in general.
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    Firmware 8.0 - For Classic Model S

    I totally agree. I got my update two days ago and spent about 30 minutes last night scrolling through this thread about all of the other issues with this release. I was surprised that no one had commented on the charging slider graphics. I mean, I can barely read the charging slider now...
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    Best PG&E Rate Plan

    I'm well aware of the tiers as I was on E-1 for a short while when I first got my MS and then E-6 for a while before jumping to EV-A. I understand that and the rationale for having rates higher during the middle of the day to discourage consumption. I'm not opposed to that. All's I'm saying...
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    Best PG&E Rate Plan

    Wow, that's impressive. Do you charge your cars at work? We also have a 4BR house and just started with a 5 kW system here in late July and also have two EVs. We rarely us the AC (ran for a total of 3-4 hours on 3 different days this summer) and do all of our laundry off peak if we can, but...