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    Supercharger - Bellevue, WA

    Is this in the upper or lower garage? I can't tell from the pillars. In my experience the upper garage is much more heavily used in the evenings/weekends.
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    Supercharger - Seattle, WA - Union Street

    An alternative to this SC if you have the CHAdeMo adapter and are travelling through downtown Seattle on a weekday are the two "free" 50KW CHAdeMO chargers at Wells Fargo Center at 999 Third Avenue. They have a short grace period 10 to 12 min which is sufficient to swing in and check if either...
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    Tesla submitted a proposal for a heavy duty charging standard (3MW)

    60,000 square feet is interestingly the size of a small warehousing or distribution center. Your average Costco for comparison is well over 100,000 square feet. I suspect such facilities will offer mega-chargers for drivers to top up before heading off to wherever they are going. Especially...
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    Supercharger - Bothell, WA

    I agree, if you can control the ICE problem through enforcement this location is as good as and probably honestly better than Totem Lake, which is where I live. This is also essentially located at a major highway interchange (I405/SR-522). You could argue it's a little to close to Lynnwood but...
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    Advice moving to Seattle (East-side)

    If you are commuting on I405 towards Bellevue/Redmond at all you want to be south of I405/SR522 interchange if it's affordable for you, or be going counter commute. Traffic is significantly worse in both directions north of there. Even if you pay to use the toll lanes past 522 is often 2x what...
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    Supercharger - Spokane, WA

    Starting in Stevenson (40 mi west of Dalles) with a 100% charge we drove to Kennewick in a LR Model 3 in mid September. This was in the rain and into the wind, though we went on the WA side so about 5 - 10mph slower than I-84. We had a lot of high speed passing required due to trucks with the...
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    Supercharger Speculation - The Village at Totem Lake (Possible Tesla retail store location???)

    There are two large garages incorporated into the design. The first one is nearly open (or was last I drove by). It has around 500 stalls on the westside of the street. There is one full level of parking under basically the entire structure east of the street. That's probably similar in size...
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    Anyway to avoid paying Seattle area sales tax on a Tesla?

    *edit* misread thread context.
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    Supercharger - Seattle, WA - Union Street

    Just as an aside, I regularly eat around here and the only restaurant I've found that will validate for this garage is Cortina (the ex Sullivan's). I last used them to validate for a car in that garage 3 or 4 months ago, but call and check if you plan to use it. Unfortunately 2 Union is...
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    Dual Motor v RWD in PNW

    Are you keeping the Subaru? As a hiring manager " Should I sell or keep my car? It's a _____." is a question I get a lot from folks moving to W.Washington. My first question back (40 years living here, plus another 40+ of "grandpa/dad stories") is always: Do you have to go up a hill to get...
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    Body shop recommendations for Seattle area?

    Be very careful with Accurate, especially surrounding billing. We recently had a huge dispute with them over massive delays over a simple tear down for inspection of damage an a outlandish billing attempt (>$10K). Elevated up to regional management for insurance, and the Tesla body shop...
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    Model 3 Accident at NE 70th on 405N

    To close the loop the vehicle was declared totaled due to damage to the firewall from where the wheel slammed back, which we expected.
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    Model 3 Accident at NE 70th on 405N

    Good discussion on the various aspects of the car being totaled guys saved me some research time. :-) Appreciate it and will refer to it once we know the final details from the shop and insurance.
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    Model 3 Accident at NE 70th on 405N

    Correct, the finicky nature of the car (a serious electrical failure early on, a window seal leak and lots of creaks and noises) means given the choice I'd probably take a total. I have been considering that this vehicle could long term be a regular visitor to the Bellevue SC. The inspector...
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    Model 3 Accident at NE 70th on 405N

    That was us, my wife (on AP in left lane) clipped the stopped Subaru who had pulled off to the left of the highway just over the rise in the hill where there's no shoulder and was hanging about 4 feet into the travel lane. Who knows why they pulled left instead of right to such a terrible spot...
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    When did AP gain your trust?

    We had an accident on AP as noted above, and wife and I read the manual so we knew and aren't hugely up in arms on it as it was mostly a bad luck sit for us and could have happened in a regular old car. We are still in on Tesla and are fixing the car and maybe getting a 2nd one. But my wife was...
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    When did AP gain your trust?

    She hit a stalled vehicle partially (about 2.5ft) in the travel lane on left side of the road, no shoulder. Our car came over a pretty sharp rise on an interstate, my experience has been that AP can struggle to acquire downhill objects. AP clipped the other car, that part is a pretty standard...
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    When did AP gain your trust?

    My wife did. She had an accident recently on AP (M3) and now obviously doesn’t. My conclusion has been it is very usable in stop and go traffic. At highway speeds the driver needs to pay such close attention given how quickly things can change that the complacency that it can encourage is to...
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    Supercharger Speculation - The Village at Totem Lake (Possible Tesla retail store location???)

    No construction at either location as of two weeks ago, the mall is finishing out their most likely location which is the garage soon though. I reviewed all the electrical permits for the Village and the Fred Meyer store/gas station parcels about a two weeks ago while stuck in a waiting room...