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What a great place to watch the eclipse! We arrived at Plattsburgh SC a little past Noon and there was quite a crowd. Chaos was avoided though by some good natured person handing out hand written slips of paper with each new arrival’s place in line, I was #72. 7/8 stalls were operational and...

Good stuff. Don’t know how many times I’ve been Westbound on the pike saying, “can I make it to Breezewood, nah, better stop at Carlisle.”

To be clear, this is not an isolated thing it’s gotten worse over the last 12-18 months and is true at all superchargers, paired or not. I just went from 80 mile range to 200 and it took 90 minutes. Not workable for a road trip.

Coming up on 5 years with my ‘15 70D and still love the car. The only downside is that at 62k miles it is now essentially no longer a road trip car. The reason is the supercharging is so slow. I sealed my driveway yesterday so couldn’t get to my charger. I drove over to a supercharger this...

stopped by last night. 2B was not working and 1A has what appears to be an abandoned Blue Model 3 in it. The car was not charging and has a parking violation sticker on the driver side window. I only had to wait 5-10 mins to charge but this is a case where the nav system could have directed...

Stopped by today. Nothing going on yet.

Went by today. All stanchions are in but still no transformer. No workers on site.

Great! Always a treat to get one coming that is not already on the Tesla map. Allentown is a fairly frequent stop for me, this is a good alternative especially for odd hours when the 24 hour Wawa will be nice.

We made our 3rd stop over 2 years at this SC yesterday. The first time I was there I followed the navigation coming off of I84 WB, it suggests a left turn over a curb so I ended up doing a u turn in the residential neighborhood past the SC. Of course I knew better on subsequent visits and...

Actually I'm a "true" 70D, build in 10/2015. My point was I am indifferent as to 100% AC charge before the trip, or an extra 10% (24 miles in my case) of supercharging during the trip. I wondered which was best overall. Completely understanding there is probably very little difference. Ken

In light of the new info about potential limited DC fast charging over the lifetime of my car, I'm wondering if I should change my thinking about 100% charges. Usually when I leave on a trip that will involve a Supercharge session, I only make sure I have enough to make it to the SC, plus a...

Sure, three minutes isn't a big deal. But does it end there? A week ago I knew nothing of any limit, now there is one, and it's poorly defined. I think the original poster hit this limit at 30,000mi or so, will there be a new, lower limit for him at 60k, 90k? What will the new limit be? Are...

Yes, I did. A bit of a gap where I'm looking. I thought about the Promenade Shoppes in South Windsor but I don't see any lodging nearby. The other alternative is to go 95 along the coast and stop at the Mystic Marriott but if that's the only option I'll probably just go the Supercharger...

I'm going from Central NJ to Bangor , Maine in a couple of weeks in my 70D. Evtripplanner suggests routing through Milford North, Auburn, Seabrook, and Augusta SCs and I'm good with that, it's an easy trip. If I leave at 0700 I'm there for dinner. I have the option though of driving part...

This is great but selfishly I wish they were heading further West on I-80.

Only guesses but 8) Red Bank doesn't seem likely to me. That's less than 10 miles from the Tinton Falls SC. I don't have a better guess though. On 9) it seems the NJ Turnpike is pretty well covered, that pin looks further West to me, over in PA. How about the Langhorne area, maybe the...

Sounds like I should be good to go. Thanks all for the responses and I'll post back how things go. Ken

We'll be taking our 2015 70D to Canada (Ottawa and Montreal) the week after next. I called Tesla to see whether the LTE connectivity would work in Canada or not. First they said "yes", followed closely by "let me check", then "only if you are close enough to the border to pickup US cell...

Almost two months ago my 7 month old 70D was hit in the right rear with substantial damage. Luckily and I think thanks to Tesla's great design I was not damaged in any way. The other driver ran a red and was ticketed at the scene, his insurance has accepted fault. My car is still in the shop...

I was coming back to NJ on I80 last weekend in a rental ICE (I'm 4 weeks and counting into collision repair after my 70D was t boned). I got off on route 219 in Dubois for gas. I thought the new Sheetz location that is under construction at that exit would be a perfect SC location but couldn't...

My whole trip is actually Lake George to Cranberry area. I'll be stopping at Utica, maybe Syracuse, Buffalo, then Cranberry. May stop for the night after Buffalo for a little slow fill at a hotel

Anybody have any updates or pictures? I'm coming down from Buffalo to Cranberry Sunday night/Monday morning in a 70D. Gonna be tight if this isn't up by then

I had very good luck last week with the chademo at Brenner Nissan coming and going to Pittsburgh. When I pulled in a dealership employee was parking a car in front of the charger. As soon as he saw me he waved and started pulling back out. I only needed 15 mins or so to reduce the pucker...

It's at a Shoprite, a medium size grocery chain in the Northeast. It's a fairly affluent area of NJ and my assumption is that they just wanted to attract customers. It worked on me. I was going to be in the area for a few days so I looked on Plugshare. When I saw this location a few miles...

I had a not so pleasant interaction today. A local grocery store here in NJ recently installed 2 HPWCs. They're around the side of the store and the spots are painted green, they are signed as EV charging, but not EV charging only. I was done shopping and in the car for a few minutes letting...

ok, thanks. It will give me something to ask them at the Social this weekend. Ken

Got in my 70D this AM and the touchscreen came on just fine but the Instrument panel was black and the car would not come out of park (yes, foot was on the brake) . Waited a little while and then decided to reboot with the thumbwheels. When the instrument panel came up it had a rather bright...

Plugshare is the website and app you want to look at. I just took a quick look and the closest one is a VW dealer but no reviews on that one. I've had pretty good luck though in finding L1 charging (a 110v 15-20A outlet) in many hotel parking lots. Depending on how low your charge will be when...

I'm wondering if the signs for these are "Tesla only" or "30 minute parking" or a mix? I realize ICEing is less of a concern since they are more remote but was still curious. We'll be stopping for a charge next Thursday.

Looking good for my trip through in two weeks! Wondering if the spots will stay black or if that's "primer" for a coat of "Tesla red". Doesn't matter to me as long as they keep the lines where they are. Thanks for the pictures.

We'll be passing through on our way to/from DC on April 1-3. Fingers crossed that it will be done. Last time we charged at Newark, a week before Thanksgiving, we waited 15 mins to get a charge. I didn't mind it but I wondered how many people saw up to 3 cars waiting and formed a negative...

Thanks for the thoughts. If I get in a bind I have some L2 charge options near Rehoboth as well. Our ultimate destination is Cranberry so that will be our "destination charge". The trip home on the weekend after Thanksgiving should be interesting for us as well. I'm thinking Somerset then...

Two months with our 70D and it's time for our first trip! We'll be going from home near the Tinton Falls SC to Ocean City, MD on Saturday. We need to make a few small detours along the way (cheap DE booze!) so total mileage is about 225. Being our first road trip I want to be conservative and...