I am new to Tesla and wanted to ask about the process of queuing in a parking lot for a turn at a busy EC. How exactly is this handled?
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I obviously meant SC rather than EC.:smile:
As you travel a bit, and go to more populated areas (and routes), you may actually have to occasionally wait.
I have seen cars pull up, patiently wait until the first (fully charged) car leaves and then they pull into the next open Supercharger bay.
If there is another car that arrives, it queues into line.
Et cetera.
And sometimes, the late arriving (local) Model S pulls up, sees that all stations are full and they decide to not wait and they go on to somewhere else for a while.
I have encountered full Supercharger stations @ Mt. Shasta, Las Vegas, Fremont, Hawthorne, Barstow, Laguna Seca (temporary), Huntsville, Waco and Denver, CO (mall).
And I have been to a whole lot more stations where I have been the lone car charging.
As Model S (and soon-to-be Model X) will be the only cars that can currently charge @ a Supercharger, you will probably be unobstructed for a while.
After Model 3 comes on-line and after a couple of years of ramped-up production, things might get a bit more interesting, especially during peak Summer and Holiday travel times.
However, I fully expect TM will continue to develop and improve on the projected Supercharger Network well past 2016.