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My wife is a County Supervisor in Mariposa County, and she has been getting frequent reports of Teslas navigating to The Mariposa Grove in Yosemite being sent up White Chief Mountain Road which turns into Star Lake Road, a non-maintained Forest Service dirt road where they get lost as it does...

My wife is a County Supervisor in Mariposa County, and she has been getting frequent reports of Teslas navigating to The Mariposa Grove in Yosemite being sent up White Chief Mountain Road which turns into Star Lake Road, a non-maintained Forest Service dirt road where they get lost as it does...

My wife is a County Supervisor in Mariposa County, and she has been getting frequent reports of Teslas navigating to The Mariposa Grove in Yosemite being sent up White Chief Mountain Road which turns into Star Lake Road, a non-maintained Forest Service dirt road where they get lost as it does...

And BTW, we now have Superchargers in Mariposa at Pioneer Market and at Yosemite View Lodge right before you enter the Park. Such an improvement from a year or so ago. The ones at Pioneer Market are never full it seems. (Except for a few ICE cars.)

The M&S rating is important as you will not be required to put on chains if it is R2, but, of course, you can if you feel safer that way. HWY 140 is definitely the way to get to Yosemite in the winter as it follows the Merced Wild and Scenic River and does not involve the higher elevations that...

Are your All Season tires M&S rated? If so, you will likely not need to put the chains on. If not, better practice putting chains on before you leave. We live just outside of the Park and do have proper winter tires on our M3LR during the winter. The current forecast indicated a few inches...

We have a home theater with pretty high-end gear and run everyday on the Powerwalls during partial peak and peak PG&E rate hours, 3PM until midnight, for obvious reasons. And during that time we watch TV with our JVC 4K projector, 7.2.4 audio setup, listen to music, etc. Not an issue. On...

I don't know how deep the Sonotubes went for sure. The guys who put them in used a Bobcat with an auger to get down 3 feet or so from what I saw. We had to remove all the panels and I used my tractor to pull them back up straight. Now all tubes are doubly diagonally braced, so they should be...

In the summer I have been able to get through a 10-day outage while we were evacuated during a wildfire, without ever needing the generator. (Keep the refrigerator going!) But in the winter if the solar panels are covered with snow, it can be a problem to keep the Powerwalls charged. Last...

That is what I intended to say.

I believe I started the first Tesla Powerwall with a generator thread in 2017 when we received our first Powerhall 2 and wanted to install it with our existing 18 kW Kohler propane generator. Tesla said, No way, no how, and we and our local installed negotiated with Tesla for many months before...

The 18" alloy wheels without the aero covers look great, especially with the midnight silver paint. You just need to buy the aero wheel cap kit to cover the lug nuts. I used the old one with individual nut caps and a small center cover, but I see the new wheel cap kit now just has a larger...

When we moved to Mariposa we kept the AT&T plans we had had in the Bay Area for 10 years or so, and did OK, especially as we had an AT&T microcell at home and eventually Wi-Fi calling. In town and around the county the coverage was spotty at best. Verizon seemed to be the carrier of choice...

I think Verizon is fine in most all of Mariposa. AT&T, not so much.

I can also confirm that the chargers are up and working, at least the one we tried. When we got there 2 of the 60 minute general parking stalls were ICEd and when we left a 3rd ICE vehicle was in one of the Tesla Charging Only stalls. We will see how much of an issue ICEing is at this site and...

Sorry folks, we were on the coast for a few days and can confirm that the Santa Cruz Superchargers work very well. We will try and get into town this afternoon and try charging at Pioneer to confirm operation there.

We tried again today and after plugging in the T on our Model 3 went red, notification said Charge Cable Not Fully Inserted, and the display said, Supercharger Out of Order. Tried to replug, but no change. Can't be much longer now, I would hope, but since the, but we have been so close for so...

My wife asked the cashier yesterday, and she said, "Still waiting". But a transformer installed is REAL PROGRESS!

Since either my wife or I shop there several times a week I'll certainly let the group know if see any progress.

I am in PG&E territory and several years ago managed to integrate an existing 18 kW generator into a solar/Powerwall 2 installation. I started this thread on the process which frankly Tesla made difficult at the time...

My ground source heat pump (pond loop) generates 5 kW of heat for every kW of electricity used, so 5 time more efficient than resistance heating. That said, the problem that needs solving here, in my experience, is when the grid is down and the Powerwall batteries are full but the solar still...

And that is why a recommended the Superstor tank with the heat exchange coil. Not sure why we were then discussing using a tank without a heat exchange coil for radiant heating.

Yes, that is my understanding. The radiant water should be in a closed loop and not mixed with domestic water. It seems that there are lot of practical reasons for this.

This is what I was told by the company that installed our system and if you google on domestic water for radiant heat, it says that it is prohibited in most states and adds, that since the water used for radiant heat may sit uncirculated for many months when heat is not needed, who would want...

In California, at least, one is not allowed to use domestic water for radiant heating, and who would want to? We have 2 80 gal Superstor tanks for domestic water and, as described above, one of them has a heat exchanger coil and the water flowing through that coil is then used for radiant...

As part of our geothermal pond loop system, one of my water storage tanks is a Superstor SE 80 gal tank that has a heat exchange coil built in. That heat exchanger coil is used for radiant heating in our home. While the water in this tank, as well as my other tank without the heat exchanger...

From an article today in the Mariposa Gazette: "Tesla charging stations almost ready Pioneer Market is also in the process of installing Tesla charging stations. Dubberke explained PG&E had to replace some lines in town, but now that their work is done with that, it’s onto the last step of the...

Some of the cones have been moved. Is that progress?

I don't thing the Tesla map location means anything until it is open. The Supercharger in Mariposa is largely complete, just waiting for a transformer, yet the spot in Mariposa on the Tesla map is on the main road in the center of town rather than the actual location at Pioneer Market on...

I headed to Pioneer Market today to do some shopping and found traffic control, a line of PG&E trucks, a Ditch Witch, a dozer, an excavator and progress at last toward installing a transformer! No transformer is sight yet, but there is hope!

I agree that heat pumps are doing better now, including those now used on Tesla cars, but the heat capacity of air is pretty thin compared to the earth and so it is more of a challenge to for an air source heat pump compared to using the ground for the heat source/heat sink. I was just trying...

There are heat pumps and heat pumps. Most if not all the discussion here seems to be about air source heat pumps where heat is moved from outdoor air into the house in the winter in heating mode, and from the house to the outside air in the summer in AC mode. Air source heat pumps start to...

I have often heard the 2-4 hour battery storage argument used by those promoting hydrogen or some other energy storage medium. Basically FUD about LI Ion batteries and batteries in general. I recently got into a debate on this issue on another forum stating that the self-discharge rate of Li...

I haven't driven by El Portal lately, but it might be worth a trip to check up on progress. It certainly seems that the Pioneer Market or "Mariposa" Superchargers will be operational soon.

Starting to look a lot more like Superchargers!

The Mariposa Supercharger (at the Pioneer Market) now shows on the Tesla Find Us map as Q4 2022 and El Portal is still there, now showing Q3 2022. Maybe we get both, and with Merced, 140 the All Weather Highway into Yosemite along the Merced Wild and Scenic River will finally be well served!

I just talked with my sharp-eyed friend and he had just checked with the Building Department and indeed, the permit is for SUPERCHARGERS!

You may be right about El Portal but I do know that the manager of one of the motels in El Portal was serious about having a Supercharger there. Don't know why it has been delayed, but the new sighting in town is a much better location for many reasons. Ideally we will have both, or at least...

The solar panels are on the north west side of the property. Great location as it is near not only Pioneer Market, but also the history center complex with public bathrooms and a block from the main drag (49 and 140) where there are good restaurants and shopping.

A sharp-eyed friend and fellow Tesla driver who lives off-grid just noticed a bunch of Tesla equipment behind a fence and under a recent solar installation at the Pioneer Market in the town of Mariposa. He thought they were Superchargers, but when I looked at them, I thought they might be...

Attached is the diagram of my installation of Powerwall(s) with a generator. As was discussed above it took many months for Tesla to approve of any installation where a generator was involved, but this setup which we proposed assured that the Powerwalls Tesla Backup Gateway would never “see” the...

I ended up walking over to Taco Bell to use their bathroom. Popeye's is closer, but I couldn't take the smell!

When Tesla installed their destination charger at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley the deal was that they also had to put in a generic charger. The complication was they they could not easily (permits) dig a new trench so they had to work with an existing electrical facility near the...

The site will be at one of the hotels in the Merced River canyon along 140. That hotel is in contact with Tesla and PG&E, but may not have applied for a permit with the County at this time. Having recently spoken with the hotel manager about this, I believe that the project is moving forward...

I just got a bill from PG&E that seemed different somehow and looking at the details it seems I was moved from EV2-A to NEMPS. This no doubt happened after my installer finally got the permission to operate for our 2nd Powerwall 2. What I can't find anywhere is what that means in terms of...

Getting Merced, Mariposa and El Portal will be another key to unlocking Yosemite to travel from the Bay Area as 140 is the most scenic route and the All Weather Highway that follows the Merced Wild and Scenic River and is open when 120 and 41 are closed because of snow as those routes involve...

Is there or what is the best discussion group for Starlink Beta testers? I live in Mariposa County, CA, ~37° N and surprisingly got my dishy a few days ago. I live in a forested area, but found a location with a view to the North that seems to work OK. My first 2 days of operation showed an...

I had the impression that green circles were active or operational, but yellow circles were still maneuvering to their final orbit and were not operational. But, if I select "active" rather than "any" on the starlink satellite map, it shows both green and yellow circles, but does not show the...

When are the satellites activated? Do they have to be in their final orbit (green circles on the map) before they can transmit and receive from the dishy, or are the yellow circles near final orbit also actively contributing to the grid?