Tronguy,
Thanks for your insights. I will be contacting an authorized Tesla installer after reading what you had to say.
I got an email from sales support saying they would expedite another charger, since they can't account for where the original one is. Well, guess what?
As of last night the original charger is finally on it's way! Now I have 2 chargers coming. Go figure.
Cool. In my experience, Tesla has almost always made it right. (There are others with different opinions around here, so I guess I've been lucky.)
A couple more things about the WC install.
So, a proper electrician, before installing something that draws Significant Power, will do a Load Analysis on the breaker panel. I don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of this, but the basics are pretty obvious. At one end, if one has a 60A breaker panel from the mid-40's in one house, pretty obviously adding an additional 60A breaker is Right Out. At the other end, if one has a 400A breaker panel with a zillion empty slots, people are going, "Problem? What problem?"
. Somewhere in between serious electricians look at what's plugged into the house, do some kind of calculation, and then bless (or not bless) the installation. In my case I took pictures of the breaker panel (200A) and its fill; what with the labels saying what-was-what, the install of an additional 60A, 240VAC dual breaker was apparently not a problem.
Others around here haven't been as lucky. I've personally seen 100A service breaker panels where there was But One additional slot open; for some others, bringing down bigger, thicker wires from the utility pole (or whatever), doing heroic things to the breaker panels and surrounds (sub-panels?), and so on has happened. In New Jersey, there are government-sponsored programs that recompense the homeowner/utility for either the WC install, the upgrade of the breaker panel, the wiring from the utility (if required), or all three. Lemmee see.. Yep:
Charge NY Program - NYSERDA.
In your case, you clearly have a 30A 240VAC dual-breaker that's not being used. But you won't be able to use that with a 32A or 48A load, the wire is exceedingly unlikely to be thick enough. But this is why one talks to an electrician: They can legitimately tell one the ins, outs, and costs of all this stuff, as compared to near-gonzo like myself.
Final comment, which you can file in the nearest trashcan: If you haven't considered solar power on the roof before now, it might be worth considering. Back in 2008 the SO and I plunged into the fun and put some 9.6 kW of solar panels on the roof that generate somewhere between 10 MW-hr to 12 MW-hr of electrical energy a year. Yeah, government subsidies, some from the feds, some from the state. But the cost of such an installation has dropped about 3X to 4X from what we paid back in the day. All of which means that we don't generally pay for electricity, except for the paltry $5/month connection fee. For the two BEV cars we typically get around 6000 miles a year of free kayoodling across the landscape before having to pay anything. And inflation on electric prices doesn't seem to affect us
. And a similar installation would be around $12k or so these days, what with the drop in prices.
In our case it helped that we had a south-facing roof, with no tree-shading, and almost the exact right angle so the panels face the sun dead-on twice a year; most everybody else isn't that lucky. Like I said, it's a idea that you're free to ditch, but it's kind of great that we drive our cars around on Nuclear (Fusion) power from that great big splotch in the sky. And sell the excess energy for (not all that much) money to the local utility.
