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Tesla has been, roughly, doubling the number of stalls in the US every 4 years since the model 3 began shipping. So even if they do not increase that rate, but they start adding longer cables and/or drive thru locations they can allow for different configurations over time without too much...

Maybe "grid connections" are the new real estate?

What you say makes sense. But it also makes sense that if you bought a new car without stalks you'd intentionally limit yourself to driving on nice sunny days for the first week or two until you developed the muscle memory for the new layout, then you'd be good to go on a dark rainy night. The...

You should setup your own account a credit card before you get blocked from using a Supercharger. Last summer I lost my physical credit card while on a long trip. I immediately cancelled the card and started using a different one, but forgot it was the card on my Tesla. For a couple of days I...

I was replying to one-pedal driving. Are you saying you cannot turn this off and on like I could in my 2018 M3 years ago?

No, I love it. But you can chose to use it or not. If you must switch drivers you can change it. You can even setup a guest profile with it off You can't add a stalk when a friend or family member needs to unexpectedly drive the car because of an emergency (like their car is damage or someone...

Logically knowing what to do and having automatic muscle memory just do it are two different things. Now imagine the occasional driver has to drive at night on a congested freeway and has to signal to move over a couple of lanes. It probably won't be a good experience...all to save, maybe $50 on...

For me the biggest problem with no turn signal stalk is for the occasional driver of the car. I have no doubt that after a few days or weeks I'd get used to it as most would. But what about a 2nd driver that rarely uses the car and has to use it on rare occasions. They would hate it. There are...

The savings of $6500 in the first year is highly suspect. This means, on average, a homeowner would save over $500 per month. I have had solar for over 8 years so I have a near zero bill now...but I never even had a bill that high for combined electric + NG, much less been able to save that much...

This has happened to me a few times. I have FSD installed but it has never been turned on when this warning happens. It has always happened just a block or two from my home in almost the exact same spot...a one lane road approaching a major road am I'm getting ready to move to the right to turn...

Are you driving from CA to NH? I can tell you that on I-80, for example, I found every charger I stopped at very easy, at least from CA to UT. Most Interstate Superchargers I found were at shopping centers or restaurants, sometimes at the far side of a large parking lot

I've been to both Reno and LV. In Reno I stayed at a Marriott (Courtyard?) that had a Destination charger and a generic J1772. Dest charger was broken, but the other was available both nights I was there. I even went an unplugged at ~11pm when not yet full but in the morning no one was plugged...

Actually they are ChargePoint. And they are 208v

FYI, looking something else up I found out that each building is 4000 amps at 480/277 volts (I guess this means 3 phase) Depending on how that math works it is 1 or 2 MW. 50 L2 chargers (usually 6kw) would be 300kw, so a pretty big add to a parking garage that has just some lighting and...

The facility was built from 2013-2017 and consists of 3 other similar 6 story parking garages and 8 office buildings ( 6-8 stories each) plus shopping, restaurants, gyms, etc. The ChargePoint chargers are $3/hr or free for the first 4 hours (paid by the various company tenants). Nearby the same...

Last summer I drove from the Bay area to Reno then Glacier Natl Park and back. 16 days total and I stayed at about 5 hotels with free charging plus one with 120v outlets. They were all setup so that anyone could drive up and plug in except one that advertised Tesla destination chargers and...

The future is here. My work parking garage has had ~48 ChargePoint chargers for over 6 years and most days all are in use at once by 10am Most of them supply 6kw all the time. But 2 are on the ground floor and marked for handicap usage and if both are in use they cut back to ~1/2 power.

Of course in this fictional story, the early chapters detail how the AI has become good at recognizing new driving edge cases and automatically reports them back to the Tesla HQ. When new updates take longer and longer to arrive and don't fix the problems the AI in the car starts making changes...

I think you mean a model Y. I have a model 3 and there is no parcel tray and its not an SUV

The above is important! A few months ago I was on a 2+ week trip and lost my credit card after a week. I discovered that I had lost it within an hour and reported it lost and canceled it. Forgetting that this is the card in my Tesla account I then went ~4 days without going to a supercharger...

Seems like a fuse or two are blown since one side windows vent and the other side does not, among all the stuff that works and doesn't work from the app.

Note that whatever the navigation picks for your SC location you can override it if you want to go to a certain SC. Just navigate to that location so that the car will start preconditioning a few minutes before you get there. If you just ignore a further destination and drive to a closer SC you...

This whole thing seems like an opportunity for Tesla to have "yet another option" on the charging screen. Allow charging port to be opened when car is locked and no key present Yes/No Mike

If the software can't tell the difference between rain and water marks & haze, then there should be a setup mode that allows the user to tap it and say my windshield is now dry, so create a digital filter to handle this

Sure, but I'd suggest only an hour or two of free idle time between 8am and 10pm.

I did a 3600 mile road trip this summer and ~half the miles were from hotel chargers. Only one charger didn't work properly and luckily there were two chargers and no other EVs.

I would think that if the load on the 100 amp breaker was the critical issue and a fire broke out it would not affect the car(s) and batteries for some time. just my guess. And i would think that a problem here would be handled by the breaker tripping before a fire were to ever start, having...

I have an existing solar system (non-Tesla) and I'm considering a Powerwall, probably next year. I'm curious about the pros and cons of putting it inside my garage or outside on an east facing wall. Inside I have a wood shop that sometimes gets very dusty and I have limited wall space. Outside I...

I just returned from a 3650 mile road trip. I charged at 20 Superchargers, but I also charged at 5 hotel destination chargers and one hotel with 120v outlets. About 45% of my charging was free at hotels. Most were Marriotts (Courtyard, Residence Inn, Fairfield, etc.)

Penny wise, pound foolish of course. The cost of the extra 10 feet of copper wire isn't much. Needing to add more chargers, in the future, because everyone finds it convenient to plug in for the whole night will cost more. We just need a few hotel execs to be EV drivers to get this fixed.

Easy enough...just don't charge idle fees from around 10pm or midnight until 8am, perhaps Also be sure to send text message warnings for idle fees. Also a good idea is to position standby parking spots next to chargers so the next car to charge can move the cable and the cars unlock when...

I guess by the time we get to 2035 the L2 chargers will all have the ability for the property owner to do something like have a reservation system and/or free coupon codes good for a couple of hours and/or idle penalties, etc. This way those that really need to charge can do it and lots of...

I don't know if it is dangerous or not. I would have to be desperate to use it. However, since there is no current flowing when you plug it in it is likely safe because it takes a few seconds before charging starts. There must be some kind of safety check before charging starts. When unplugging...

Got to give them credit since they were on the path to nowhere and have suddenly realized their mistake

I hope they do put DCFC at Walmarts. And at Targets and at McDonalds, N-and-out , and everywhere else. It is actually best at a place with a big parking lot since it is more likely that they won't be ICEd. And who cares about the 24 hrs? Lots of Superchargers are at places not open 24 hrs...

I had a valet mode issue so I'm adding it to this thread. Background. I was getting new tires and thought I'd be getting them installed on the way to work so I wanted to lock my laptop in the frunk. I'd never tried valet mode so I thought I do that. I entered valet mode on my phone, entered a...

I tried deleting and re-adding items to favorites but still no luck. Then I tried deleting and doing a text search to refind a favorite and this repopulated all icons. Very strange. Then immediately after that I got the latest SW update

A couple of days ago my 2018 M3 favorites and other audio tiles has about half the tile's icons missing and instead I see a greyed out musical note. I switched screens a few times and tried other things to get them to re-populate, but no change. I waited a day or two. No change. I did a soft 2...

It is pretty common for electrical wiring devices to have an amps rating that is concerned with the max power that it can carry which relates to the size and rating of the upstream breaker. And then there is a what seems to be very large voltage rating that has to do (I think) with the...

Perfect?

(Thanks for all this work) But now that all this data exists, maybe there is another important way to slice and dice the numbers. :) Let's say you are going from A to B to C and the Supercharger at B is closed for some reason. Maybe we would call this an unsplitter. It would be interesting to...

Are you asking what could they do or should they do? Or what is legal? Or what is allowed by the merchant agreements for a business accepting credit cards? I think that they cannot charge extra for using a credit card (or debit card) but they can arrange it so the normal price is what credit...

I'm suggesting that if Tesla takes the government incentives that it is OK for those chargers to be required to make them universally available to all CCS EVs and all drivers with or without smart phones. If Tesla thinks that the number of non-Tesla drivers is too small to bother with then they...

Not really as others have said. But Tesla owners will likely want to install the app to have all the other app features for their car. But that is a choice they make. A non-Tesla driver on a road trip that normally uses EA chargers, for example, shouldn't need to install the Tesla app for just...

Do you really want a world where you go to a hotel and you can't stay there unless you install their app to pay? Or you go to a restaurant and you install their app or its no soup for you!? Apps are great and a real convenience for things you do often. But a one-time charge out in a place you...

The point of having a screen for non-Tesla cars is pretty simple. You have an EV and you drive up and want to charge. You have a credit card and no phone. First, how do you know the price? Second, you have to pick a station and tap or swipe a card. One could argue that you can do all this on a...

In the long term I don't see a screen as a big problem. At a site like Kettleman City (first site) you could have a single screen at a kiosk near the restroom building. With 40+ chargers and another 40+ a few blocks away there will be a maintenance guy checking in frequently. The first site has...

I agree that this isn't the right way to do it. But I don't like your logic. By your logic you should never use a multi-outlet power strip either, because if someone were to plug in, for example, two hair dryers (or two toaster ovens or whatever) and the breaker is bad and doesn't trip then...

Perhaps when an airport facilities architect gets an EV they'll get a clue that each charging pedestal/cable needs to be installed so that it reaches 4 (or even 6) parking spaces. It is not difficult to do this. The you could pay a small free to park there and "get in line" for a charger. Lot of...

I don't currently have this problem in my 2018 M3. But it did happen a couple of times last spring. I heard the clicking while on a several hour trip. Eventually the clicking stopped, but so did all audio, including turn signal beeps. Everything. Then the touch screen stopped working. Then the...