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This is definitely off topic but you have a few options: 1: get two of the current HPWCs and install them to use the "load sharing" option. replace the connector for one with a J1772. QuickCharge Power will do this for you for a price. this will allow you to charge both cars simultaneously...

I give up. The new spreadsheet scheme is unusably slow for me. Please add the following 4 for me: Auburn WA (early Dec) Red Bluff CA (23 Dec) Williams CA (23 Dec) Daly City CA (30 Dec) -Snortybartfast (aka "snort")

Don't forget traffic headed towards (or from) The Dalles. Cle Elum <=> The Dalles is 161 hilly miles. It's easy from Ellensburg, but sketchy from Cle Elum. Yakima solves that problem too. -Snortybartfast

Once upon a time I think this was true, but it hasn't been for at least 20 years. The majors have wind-tunnels and computational fluid dynamics, and they've managed to extend the area of stalled air behind the cab so that the tailgate is part of it and helps keep it stable, so it contributes a...

Please Elon and Franz, make it a truck, not an SUV with a miniature box and no good way to carry lumber or attach a contractor rack. The F150 is popular because it's a real truck, usable by people who actually do things. Yes, lots of F150s are bought by people who want to be mistaken for...

Hear Hear! Tesla seems to be going all in on appearance, neck snapping performance and carrying lots of people. That's fine and a popular segment but it's not the only one. If I'm carrying a stack of lumber or pipes, or a refrigerator or something, it's worse than useless. Now Rivian comes...

Many ships built in the last decade or two have been diesel electric. For example, recent passenger liners use a device called an Azipod, which is an electric motor and propeller in a pod that hangs below the hull, and can be turned in any direction to go forwards, backwards, steer, go...

I think thatoneguy was also asking whether the 14-50 can be daisy-chained into the HPWC V2 load-sharing scheme. The answer is no. The 14-50 is a dumb outlet. The HPWC V2 has a load sharing scheme that will give all the power to one HPWC if none of the others are asking, but will split the...

(FYI, the specific gravity of platinum is 21.45 and the current price is $834/oz. So a million dollars worth of platinum weighs about 75 lbs and has a volume of a little over 1.5 liters. Unless it's deployed as a drogue parachute or something, it won't impact your range noticeably, although you...

He may have been doing it because he wanted the quiet time reading the newspaper. If home or office is noisy or distracting, an hour or two in the car may be just what he needs. The free charging may have just been a bonus. -Snortybartfast

For this particular charger, traffic is central to its usability. 30 years ago, the city chose to put a convention center on top of and next to a freeway that was already nearing its capacity limits, preventing further expansion of the freeway without condemning the convention center and a...

While the verbal abuse was out of line, he has a sort-of legitimate complaint. Upton to the western parts of LA (e.g. Beverly Hills) is 50 miles and there aren't any superchargers particularly close to the natural route...the nearest is Glendale, more than 10 miles off-route in the wrong...

PLUS EV, your point is essentially correct, that Tesla could probably have served more people by building at the malls at the north and south ends of town. Lynnwoood and Southcenter. One is open already; I imagine the other is coming soon. BB though is right about the neighborhood atlas...

The Sunday afternoon after Thanksgiving this year, the wait to charge at Corning was about an hour. I was #6 when I entered the line; more cars entered to keep it that long until I left almost 2 hours later. Fortunately, all 8 chargers, including both portables, seemed to be working...

I used it at 2:40AM and there was another car charging there. I didn't really need a charge, I was just hitting it for Superchargers Visited stats, and figured in the middle of the night there'd be no wait. I live so close I doubt I'll ever use it for real. -Snortybartfast

I think you're aiming at the wrong problem. Hotels are a good place, just as long as people are courteous and there's enough parking. I invariably stay at a hotel that's near a supercharger (Including this one) on a multi-day trip, but I always find another place after my car is charged...

How crowded is the rest of the parking lot where the EBurg charger is now? For example, behind the Red Lion. I'm thinking that the Holiday Inn may have thought having the supercharger out front was good advertising when it was installed. But it really isn't, and the space they allocated was...

Sure there is: The car knows where it is, and the supercharger knows whether it's in use or not. If you park within a block of a supercharger for a while without charging, and the supercharger is full, and then you move to the charger once there's a space, you were waiting. It can be sent to...

Good to know, thanks. Plugshare says they still have a 14-50. If Laytonville still isn't open then, I'll use Benbow for my next trip. -Snortybartfast

That's my experience too (also an 85). If it's windy, cold and wet, it's closer to 250. There are surprisingly few alternative places to charge listed on plugshare and my friends are all too far from Eureka to make it without a stop. And there is always a risk of something bad...

Thanks again for checking. (I do Seattle<->SiliValley a lot, and have several friends along the coast.) B.T.W., 101 is most definitely NOT a freeway anywhere near Laytonville. -Snortybartfast

I use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079FZQ1P3 They come in various lengths. They can comfortably carry 240V/24A indefinitely and is less than half the weight and bulk as a 14-50 extension, and if you use it with a -30 connector, you don't need to dial down the voltage in the...

I find I stop at Indian John Rest area nearly every time I make that trip....it's about at the range limit of my bladder from Seattle. It helps that the scenery is terrific. What are the pros and cons of putting a supercharger there? Cons: No commercial food There is presently no good...

Today, the Trans Canada Highway is unserved between Calgary and Sudbury, ON. There are almost 2000 miles of Hockey fans in that gap. They're also doing Portage la Prairie and Brandon, which is a nice start on the part of it from Winnipeg to Calgary. -Snortybartfast

They probably do to some degree. An ordinary vacuum pump (e.g. used by an air conditioner repair tech) can pull about 14 psi of vacuum at sea level. call it 95%. I'm sure spacex can do better than that, but maintaining a real, space level, hard vacuum is hard to do and probably not cost...

The one in Vancouver, WA was delayed because of a shortage of a particular part, called a "Switch Gear". It's a fairly standard thing, but it (or whatever it is) might have gotten backordered for some reason. You never know. Some other building project (the flying saucer across the street?)...

How far had you come from? Battery size and SoC? It's 160 miles from Downtown Seattle to this charger. B.t.w., "temper" is a thing you do with metal...or with anything if you're in a bad mood. "Taper" is what superchargers do when the battery is more than half full. -Snortybartfast

I use one of these too. It seems to move around a little every time I use it. I use the same floor space sometimes for projects that need the floor to be flat, so I used painters tape to mark the right spot on the floor so I could put it back in place easily, and once I was sure I had it...

Interesting article on Switchgear in Wikipedia. -Snortybartfast

Issaquah has disappeared from US Tesla Superchargers | Tesla, although chargers in Kirkland, Bellevue, three in Seattle, and Snoqualmie are now on the "coming soon" list. Interestingly, Vancouver, WA is also not on the list now, even though construction there is essentially complete, and a...

Any sign of activity in Laytonville? I was hoping to use it the week after next, but it looks like I'm out of luck. -Snortybartfast

I was under the impression that tow trucks in WA were required to be able to charge EVs. All it takes to do this is a generator that runs off the power takeoff--the same hydraulic system that runs the crane and winch and so forth. A device that can generate 30A240V continuous is about the...

I'm not sure how a camp stove will help. Maybe to make hot drinks while waiting? -Snortybartfast :rolleyes:

Agreed, especially about Boise-Winnemucca and other "Supercharger Deserts". Boise-Coeur d'Alene is less critical because there's a less scenic but faster (albeit longer in miles) route through Pendleton, although I'd like to see that too. It'll take at least two along US 95 there. I've said...

I charged at Springfield late last night and spent the night in one of the motels there. This morning it was dead, and the map on the touchscreen said "Temporarily closed" and it still did a few minutes ago. I had enough to get to Woodburn so no problem. Does anybody know what's up? The new...

The answer to my question is Lynnwood, at the Alderwood Fred Meyer: Lynnwood, WA Supercharger Location Guess

Where is the other one? Neither seems to be on supercharge.info as I write this. (or are you counting Vancouver, WA, which is a suburb of Portland, 160 miles from Seattle?) (Because I have a charger at home it doesn't help me at all, but I'm excited to have one so close...about 10 miles...

I agree. First time I ever had really serious range anxiety was The Dalles to Centralia. I wanted to catch the sunset along the river and left The Dalles at about 80%. Oops. This was before the Sandy charger was built. The J1772 at the Gee Creek rest area really saved me. My first choice...

I think this is the 1000th supercharger station worldwide.

It can't be too close to SoDo, it'll be crazy crowded on game day. A better suggestion perhaps: A row of J1772s in one or more of the SoDo parking garages, reserved for EVs and paid for by your parking fee, which charges your car while you're watching the game. -Snortybartfast

I have a NEMA 6-20 for a table saw. This is pretty common in workshops, for saws, planers, compressors and a few other big power tools. L6-20s and 6-15s are pretty common for this sort of application too. In my case, it's only about 10 feet from my HPWC so I don't really need it to charge...

If it's in a public place, such as homes without driveways or garages, or an apartment without reserved parking, you can imagine someone wanting to set such a thing up and wanting to secure it. From the time I first went away to college until I bought my first house, I never lived in a place...

On "Semis". Class 6-8 trucks are commodities. You can put whatever power train you like into them. Kenworth, Peterbilt, Mack, International, etc., have already done the engineering to put a wide variety of powerplants into their tractors, but they'll work with the customer to build...

Copyright law allows you to make copies of CDs and other media that are in your possession, for personal use. You need to delete the copies when you give the disc back to the library. --Snortybartfast

seconded. unhitching isn't bad if the space to put the trailer is reasonable, i.e. not needing to back the trailer into a small space around a corner. the thing that takes the most time for me is re-hitching. but being able to see the ball in the backup camera makes it easy. -Snortybartfast

me too. Shasta is such a pretty place. it was the first place I ever saw a line for a supercharger, because there are only 4 charge heads. (they were waiting for me...sorry 'bout that. I was watching the game on TV in the very nice lounge inside the Best Western). Springfield-Grants Pass is...

I'm a little mystified by this choice. It helps a bit with the long haul between Burlington and Centralia, which might be too far if you get stuck in city traffic, but it's still too far from Arlington to make it to Ellensburg. I'm guessing the casino must have made a very sweet offer, hoping...

Excellent! How does one do permit searches on these things, so I can find more details? It's taken a while, but we're finally getting our allotment of superchargers here in the Pacific NorthWet. (Forks is one of the wettest places in the country. Hoh River, just a few miles away, actually...

My new 10-30 arrived friday and I got a chance to test it yesterday. Seems fine, charge rate and voltages to the car seem pretty similar, although I only added 30 miles of range. I use my 10-30 a lot and the old one never gave a lick of trouble. Well, one lick of trouble. The only...

Hooray!!! Sequim to Aberdeen at 182 miles is a little too long if you're there to see the sights. It's a little hilly and a lot rainy, both of which eat range. There are some level 2's at Neah Bay and Forks if you're spending the night, but If you're trying to get somewhere specific (e.g...