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For purposes of this thread L2 is NEMA14-30 (or better), NEMA 10-30 (or better) and/or 208-240v charging.

I've been driving Teslas since 2016. On my first cross country trip in 2016, I drove the S 70 D down to 3 miles when I reached my third supercharger on the trip. Since then, I've been under 10 miles of range at least 20 times, mostly while on a trip. These adventures occurred during the night...

Since the AMD GPUs are so powerful, it seems they are a wasted resource while the Model S cars sit parked in our garages. As I understand it, the 2021 Model S, once available, has a bunch of these AMD processors. In many parts of the U.S., electricity CO2 emissions reach their lowest late at...

So, Pete Buttigieg wants to track your car Pros? Cons? Allegedly, this is to help out with road-use taxes. However, I could see this being used for a whole host of purposes, both by the U.S. government, as well as the Chinese government (because we all know how well the federal government...

Pick the largest category that fits your situation. Do not count as a 'shut down', a situation where you arrived at the Supercharger, and it failed to produce electricity -- and you had to go hunting for charge. Also, don't count situations where there was a mechanical/electrical problem in the...

Does anyone know how to get a version of the Model S and Model X manuals that show how they have been updated from year 2019 to year 2020? The software is changing so quickly, that its becoming difficult to keep track of how to operate essential features of the car. Frankly, the Release Notes...

My Model X100D received firmware 2019.12.1 d9eaf40 a day ago. Since then, I have been comparing the tesla.com/findus page to the reports in the Center Console of the X. I did attempt a charge at the Houston; TX - Northwest Freeway Supercharger. However, because of sharing a SuperCharger with...

So, my wife picked up her Model X on June 23, and Tesla staff told me they would promptly send the referral Wall Connector (which we previously arranged to be the standard Gen2 WC w/ 22' cable) on Monday August 23. We scheduled an installer for late next week, figuring it would be delivered on...

Hunting around the internet, I came across this nugget A peer-reviewed study by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that an aluminum-intensive vehicle can achieve up to a 20 percent reduction in total life cycle energy consumption and up to a 17 percent reduction in...

tl;dr; ...........in Today......5 years..Type 6%.........7%.......Critical Charges, Usually a Supercharger, but can be an overnight WC 1.0%.......7.0%.....Opportunistic, building extra cushion, meals, shopping, out on the town 87%........80%......Routine, daily charge habit @ home, work, school...

So, Tesla has added to its 'findus' web-page a 40-slot Destination Charger near the Denver Airport: Fine Parking ( <- Plugshare). Tesla's site indicates it to be 'up to 16kW', but one Model S driver indicates it to be closer to 1kW, via Plugshare. The parking seems to be upscale parking called...

My story I started 2017 with a (pre-owned) 70D Model S having 12,000 miles and only 3 months of experience driving it. Houston lags many other municipalities in local charging. The year started with one L2 charger at 8 miles from my house and one Supercharger at 23 miles from my house. The...

I’m not always impressed by the restaurants that are walkable, in relation to the Supercharger site. Moreover, the Tesla database tends to be out of date concerning new openings and closures of the restaurants. Below is a list (made Nov. 2017) of nearby alternative locations that are located...

So, you finally did it. You packed up the wife and kids and (hypothetically) drove from the East coast to Wally-World. But then you had to take all those bathroom/dining/charging breaks. To shorten the trip, and reduce boredom, you tried which of the following ways to order meals in the last 12...

Answer only if you’ve owned your Tesla for 6 months or longer (all units in miles). Include informal charging from hotel wall-sockets and RV Parks' NEMA 14-50s — basically anything other than the Superchargers, and not in your house. For this question, please also exclude your main business...

Looks like Nacogdoches Supercharger, in East Texas is approaching completion. Construction seems to have been under-way since the beginning of the month. 2615 N Stallings Dr Nacogdoches, TX 75964 @BlueShift Hopefully, it will be complete for my transit through East Texas later this month.

From the newly updated findus page. ----- coming in 2017 Austin, TX - Downtown, Austin, Texas Austin, TX - North Loop, Austin, Texas almost done Corsicana, TX, Corsicana, Texas Dallas, TX, Dallas, Texas almost done Dilley, TX, Dilley, Texas Fort Stockton, TX, Fort...

Well known 'river site' along I-10 hurricane route. Next-door hotel is on stilts.

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I just upgraded the charger(s) in my car. I wanted to see where I could get refueled, if not 'super', then at least 'fast', or 10 kW or faster. I was surprised that in the set of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, Texas outranks them all, having a slight majority of the...

In some U.S. cities a block is 660 feet or 1/8 of a mile. This is the equivalent of 0.2 km. So think in these terms as you answer the question (your city/town may vary). When I say 'convenient', I mean that you would consider a stay at that hotel and travel via your Tesla to get there. For some...

I saw this post, where one of the Tesla owners had extremely bad luck at two Superchargers. Since I've been studying this issue for the last 6 months, I have a rough estimate of the probabilities that a SuperCharger site experiences problems on any given day. I have been daily checking/logging...

So, I'm messing with the Nav -- and I see the SuperCharger network chiefly populated with 'happy' red supercharger pins, except for one 'circle bar' icon on the Dayton, OH location. Clicking on it, reveals the legend 1) 'Reduced service'. For fun, I set the car Nav to navigate to it. However...

Posted elsewhere... around 07/09/17. seems like completion is expected this Summer.

So, a bunch of SuperCharger sites have brand-new pedestals, complete with charging-cable and new handles. Mostly, these have been in California -- but I see one expansion site in Nevada. Has anyone been able to try charging two cars (in similar SoC) in slots that are both a)...

So, assume Tesla approaches a restaurant or a mall (where restaurants are present) with a 10-year agreement to lease/license an 8-stall patch of their existing lot for semi-dedicated EV charging. In nearly all cases, those restaurants will get a bump up in customers as compared to prior years...

So, I see that Fiat-Chrysler has had a run of 'bad luck' in programming their safety equipment. Click through to see how they are recalling over a million of their Ram trucks for a software defect. I'd hate to foot the bill on such a massive movement of metal to the shops. Leaving the question...

United States data only: TESLA SUMMARY REPORT OF CHARGERS 050317 Temporary chargers: 1 Permanent chargers: 356 Expect in 2017: 277 Expect in 2018: 0 Expect TBD: 66 Strong wall connectors: 1317 Normal wall connectors: 879 Sum Supercharger stalls per US: 2536 Sum...

So, periodically the Tesla Nav shows a site as having 'Reduced Service'. Lets say, for example, a site in the country shows reduced service, say Gustine, California (between LA and San Francisco).

Given the recent updated 2017 Charger roll-out map that shows 78 new SuperCharger sites coming to California and another 24 sites coming to Texas, I extrapolate that Tesla is trying for 463 new SuperCharger sites in the U.S. alone in 2017. Given that Tesla has added about 16 sites YTD, this...

So, I'm noticing lots of poorly maintained databases for chargers. I'm thinking specifically of Tesla and Chargepoint that are extremely slow to correct wrong locations or deactivated chargers in their databases. This bothers me because people are starting to rely on these locations to book...

I'm not a big fan of driving through the rough parts of town in my Daddy-warbucksmobile. Having said that, I'm noticing that the presence of chargers, particularly the privately-owned-and-shared charger, is a good proxy for good neighborhoods -- and that their absence indicates a place that is...

An Owner, is someone who ones substantial stock in Tesla, say $10,000 worth or more - car ownership optional; A Patron is someone who supports EVs generally, e.g. paying for stuff just to improve the ecosystem, providing supporting software/hardware or posting your own charging site on...

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Thanks to the collaboration of @wk057 @wolfson292 and their availability map, I've sampled the most reliable data streams from 17 Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma sites (weeding out some of the less reliable ones) each hour this past Monday. Although individual sites can get two or three cars...

So, I hear these stories about a) "charger didn't work, and I moved to another charger, which did"; and b) "charging stall is close to busy traffic -- so pulled out slowly to switch chargers". I know that plugshare and these forums mention occasional ad hoc outages, but dammit, there has to be...

During January, I made daily observations using the dashboard Nav showing the U.S. contiguous states. These sites went down for the first time, during the month: Moosic, PA Gila Bend, AZ Birmingham, AL Milford, CT SB Supposedly, Tesla will not report any outages if they are beyond a 24 hour...

So a week or so ago, I'm at the North Houston combined SuperCharger and Showroom. I deliberately ran down my SOC to about 3 RM to see what kind of current the chargers would give me. Since it was close to dawn, I had all six SuperChargers to myself. Temperatures were hovering around 27ºF, and...

You arrive to a SuperCharger with 15% or less State of Charge (SoC). The Supercharger is empty, except for you. Ambient temperatures are room temperature or colder, but above freezing. Your car is in good condition/repair. What is the lowest kW you think is reasonable to expect during the first...

So I have to tell you, I'm more than a little disappointed with the Tesla Nav. On a recent trip from Oklahoma to Houston, I discovered that Texas and its preference for service roads over cloverleafs can mess up the fastest route. TL;DR; The southbound navigation to the Corsicana and North...

So, I've looked, fairly intensely, at the Tesla 'findus' web-pages to figure out to what extent I can count on them. My sampling suggests that there are 1-2% errors in their data. They are not alone. The Alternate Fuels Data Center (operated by the U.S. government) has at least one GPS...

So, I'm noticing that Wh/mi is improved on side streets versus highway driving at 75-80 MPH. Having done that, I ran five trials on EVTripPlanner.com to see what the Wh/mi in a hypothetical drive, via mostly side streets, to cover a final 5 miles to some superchargers. My info averages to 215...