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Paraphrase: Plug in as frequently as possible. Set charge limit to accommodate your typical trips. Don't sweat fully charging, fast charging, or fully draining your battery, but don't make a habit of any of it.

What the heck is going on here? There are several of these just in the small area I'm looking at. They are listed as non-networked 150kw Tesla Superchargers. I think there are Tesla Destination chargers at many of the locations listed this way, but certainly not superchargers.

Have you used a destination charger with a fee? I did recently just to test it out. It works similarly to Supercharger fees. The one I used only charged $0.08/kWh (local utility rate I believe is $0.065/kWh). They only had the minimum of 6 connectors installed. I'm curious what others might be...

That's a LOT of kilometers.

I've always thought that highway restaurants like Cracker Barrel, Texas Roadhouse, etc, and other big chains like Outback, Applebees, etc, would be great sites for EV charging. Any time I've identified a Supercharger location at one of those types of restaurants I've scheduled our drive for a...

I feel like they intentionally broke this test in order to prevent the Tesla and Lucid from completing embarrassing the other manufacturers, which would have ruined Car And Driver's relationships with all of them. I still think all the gas car makers should go home with their tail tucked...

Has anyone traded a Tesla with a failed HV battery in for a new Tesla? I feel like both parties come out ahead in that situation. What did you trade? What did you get for the failed vehicle? What vehicle did you buy?

It looks like they've only added one new 72kw site this year, and only a handful last year. Are they done installing those? They make a lot of sense to me for locations like grocery stores and even interstate sit-down restaurants. You need faster than L2 (6kw+) but you don't need crazy fast...

Is it possible/easy to buy parts from Tesla? The inside plastic trim on my Model Y is pretty beat up from cargo sliding into it. I would consider replacing it if I could buy the part and do it myself. Additionally, does anyone have experience smoothing out scratches in the plastic trim of...

Wait, no, my mistake. It was a gasoline tanker truck. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/i-95-philadelphia-accident-today-road-collpase-tanker-fire/ I feel like stuff like this doesn't happen with electricity distribution.

If you could have any classic car electrified with Tesla drive system and functional Supercharging, what would you choose?

There's a pretty constant flow of people asking about putting high amperage charging options on their property or apartment complex. I fully support that! Before the Tesla Wall Connector got so cheap I put a NEMA 14-50 outlet in my garage and charge at 240v32a with my mobile connector. Full...

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/02/28/u-s-electricity-generation-by-source-in-2022-natural-gas-coal-nuclear-wind-hydro-solar-geothermal-biomass-petroleum/ Those stats look really encouraging.

https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/subway-to-add-ev-charging-stations-to-select-restaurants-nationwide/ There's another thread here about gas station style charging locations but I really think chargers at restaurants is going to be the answer. Every supercharger at a...

https://www.teslarati.com/wyoming-phase-out-evs-2035/ They're beginning to be afraid that the end is near. Ha ha ha! We win!

I bought the car in August 2020 for a little road tripping and errand running while we moved off our boat for a few months to explore the country, fully expecting to sell it less than a year later. Well we sold the boat instead and I've now owned the car nearly 28 months and put over 60,000...

If you're not familiar with Tom Scott, now's your chance.

I was on my way to bed and as I am neurotic I thought I'd check if the car had finished charging in the garage from our recent trip. My phone showed 100% SOC on the car and I immediately thought "damn I forgot to set it back to 90% again!" and went out to the car for a quick drive to draw the...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/29/23326940/ford-mystery-electric-truck-ev-2025 I'd like to see something small like a 3/4 ton Ranger from the early 2000s. A nice little weekend project truck that can be the house battery (v2h) the rest of the time.

Prior to owning an EV and then for the first few months with it I was subconsciously training myself to keep a lookout for available plugs in public, not realizing this would effectively never be necessary. But now I've got it programmed into my daily observation and I still catch myself scoping...

In 2008 I owned a Honda S2000 and purchased a new Jeep Wrangler. At that moment I said to my wife, "This is the last internal combustion vehicle I intend to buy." And I held to it. We sold the S2000 and Wrangler and in 2020 bought a Model Y (turns out in the interim I bought a sailboat with...

I don't know what subforum to put this in - this one seems most accurate. Check out this incredible configurable knob. It would be great for controlling so many things in a car.

https://electrek.co/2022/04/16/look-and-listen-as-we-get-our-first-video-of-the-ducati-racing-electric-motorcycle-doing-hot-laps/ That's about 30% more HP and 200% more torque than Ducati's own top of the line model. I'm curious if they're going to do anything extra to keep the riders on the...

For vehicles that have lifetime free supercharging, does that apply to after the vehicle has had major work done, including a battery replacement? Is Tesla at liberty to refuse battery replacement on vehicles? If someone purchased a car with free supercharging from 3rd party and then wanted to...

This looks like a winning combination. I hope they are very successful and encourage other businesses to make similar joint ventures. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1135331_volvo-plans-an-ev-charging-network-with-a-starbucks-at-every-stop

I recently had someone insisting to me that the US electrical standard was 110v. I said, "Actually it's 120 and 240 currently. Ha ha puns!" But that got me wondering why everyone thinks it's 110. I found this video. And this bit of Wikipedia knowledge...

There is almost no other discussion of reaction score on the forums, so I'm using this thread to discuss. I've seen some users who have a comment : reaction score ratio of nearly 1:10, with thousands of comments and tens of thousands of reactions. I thought, "wow they must make amazing posts!"...

Before you bought your first EV, which if you're like me would be the Tesla you now own, what was your refueling routine? I mostly drove a variety of Hondas and the last two vehicles I owned were a Honda S2000 and a Jeep Wrangler. Through my ~25 years of petrol car operation I almost...

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1134800_electric-winnebago-motorhome-thor-rv-debut-as-industry-sees-getaway-from-gas-and-diesel It looks like they've not negotiated for a bigger battery (yet). Hopefully that will come in a future revision. 125 miles is not a lot to work with. That said, I...

Is there a way to get voice commands to get passed directly to the attached phone? If I tap and release, or press and hold, it seems the car responds. It would be nice if tap and release when to the car's system and press and hold went to the phone, or some other such mechanism that would allow...

I drove from south Florida to Arkansas yesterday and saw no less than six trucks full of Model 3s headed your way. There will be a whole lot of excited new owners in the next couple weeks.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/marathon-oil-leak-texas-city/285-9747d8ac-7c11-486b-8b06-d714f7966bfc Oh wait, I've got it backwards ...

This forum desperately needs a way to hide threads and subforums from the "What's New" search. I'm tired of half the first page of results being regional waiting rooms or threads that are dozens of pages long that have wandered so far from their main topic.

I wonder how Elon feels about going from an area with an absurd abundance of Supercharger locations to an area where they're so sparse. Not that I think he actually personally takes his car to Superchargers. There's likely either private urban chargers or max power wall chargers everywhere he...

Is anyone else aggravated by this kind of journalism? This is from: CNBC road test: The U.S. EV charging network isn't ready for your family road trip, let alone the expected wave of new cars What it fails to talk about is the huge percentage of car trips that would be powered completely by...

I understand the price for kwh can change at a location, but has anyone compiled a map of charging prices? Looking at my history of charging I can see very distinct rate changes by region. I thought I had seen a map or even just a list of prices previously but I'm not finding it now.

I think I've seen this from other manufacturers, but having cameras that look directly right and left from the rear bumper would be GREAT for backing out of parking spaces.

Just wanted to let everyone know that after 26,000+ miles I've gotten the car under 300wh/mile. We've spent quite a lot of time on the interstate driving 75+ mph during the first few months of ownership. That set us up for quite a battle getting the wh efficiency back down, but we've been off...

I need to have the tires rotated. I'm currently in Portland, ME. Does anyone have a recommendation for a shop?

I've done a little searching and not found much. Are there any options for DC charging at home? Home battery systems are beginning to become more common, and home solar definitely is. It would be great if we didn't have the losses of going from DC (PV) to AC (inverter) then back to DC (onboard...

Hey! We're currently at a marina in the area but are hoping to go to anchor soon and need somewhere to park the Tesla for a few weeks to a month. The parking garages all claim to be out of monthly parking passes but I've emailed them anyway. Does anyone have another suggestion for Annapolis?

My car is going to be spending time in marinas the next several months and it would be nice to charge the car while it's parked there. I have a NEMA 14-50 adapter for my mobile connector, but those plugs are definitely not common at marinas. They typically have the 125v/30A "L5-30R twist lock"...

I wonder if Elon and crew are working on sales pitches for ERCOT. (moderator note: edited thread title to be more descriptive of what it appears you are speculating. Do you have some other information on this topic to share or is this simply throwing something out there to have a discussion?)

Do you guys ever get weird routes from ABRP? In this example I was checking what a route would be with a Model 3 SR. It seems to skip Superchargers that would be obvious benefits on a straight path, and then go wildly out of its way to charge at locations that aren't even on the direct path...

Tesla opens its new Supercharger factory - Electrek Theoretically we'll be seeing a lot more Supercharger locations pop up in 2021 and 2022.

Am I the only one who thinks it's odd there aren't EV charging options at the big power production places? The big examples that come to mind are Hoover, Grand Coulee, Bonneville, The Dalles, ... they all have visitors' centers and nerdy people who drive EVs probably go to these places. I'm sure...

We drove to the top of Pikes Peak today. I thought the graphs were pretty funny and thought people here might find them interesting, too. From the house to the main road is a gentle downhill so the Trip graph is flat. Then you start up the road the battery just nose dives going up the mountain...

It's been a long time since I've seen anyone talk about it, but the data crowd sourcing of Tesla cars about roads and road conditions could be greatly enhanced by gamifying it. If roads were assigned point values based on how recently a Tesla was driven on it, and vehicles collected points by...

What's the best way to report damage to Superchargers?

It looks like Rivian is going to also be building a charging network. Rivian is building its own EV charging network, but with an adventurous twist – TechCrunch The part that excites me, and I wish more charging networks took into consideration, is the 'off-highway' locations. "Rivian is...