Club to get more chargers?
For instance, installing an HPC to share with fellow Tesla travelers is a great idea if you live in the right spot.
You know, I don't.
Ithaca isn't actually on the most direct route from anywhere to anywhere, and I'm not in downtown Ithaca.
After realizing that I'll *never* want a fast turnaround at home from a long trip (I will always need to sleep for 10 hours!) I'm planning to install dual 14-50s -- one in my garage and one in my outdoor space -- so that I can take the car out of the garage when I'm using the garage for a painting project or something. But this also makes it easy to share the 14-50 with fellow Tesla travellers.
But it doesn't seem worth it to get an HPC just to share. It would make more sense to pay to have it installed somewhere more useful.... except, see below.
installing twin chargers "just in case" when there are no public charging stations putting out more than 50 amps in your state maybe aren't such good reasons.
This is indeed what I was thinking about. But if there seem to be rumors of planned high-amperage charging stations coming to Ontario... which I would use if they were in southwestern Ontario. And if *other* Tesla owners upstate installed HPCs which I could use, that would be most valuable to me.
Again, someone with an HPC willing to charge fellow Tesla owners on the road should start a sticky thread with approximate (not exact) location, and suggest contact via PM to schedule. I don't have an HPC and I'm far enough from main roads, or I'd start it. A private Tesla Owner HPC network would be a great thing, and eventually might become a reason to get the twin chargers.
Perhaps we should really consider starting this.
I sort of feel that I wouldn't be willing to install an HPWC as a pure act of charity, but I might be willing to do so as part of a *club*. That is, I'd consider installing an HPWC if:
(a) I knew other people would use it;
(b) other people installed HPWCs which *I* could and would use.
I'm already willing to let people use my NEMA 14-50, but on a long trip, an 8-10 hour stop to recharge could seem a bit... imposing, shall we say. A 4-5 hour stop is much more, shall we say, polite.
I see *just barely enough people* on the map to start creating a charging network for the trips I'd want to take. And I don't see fast charging, or public 60+ amp charging, coming to my area any time soon. I could get to Columbus, OH with stops in Oil City, PA (one pin on the map), Cleveland (5 pins), and Columbus (1 pin); or to Lansing, MI with stops in Rochester, NY (1 pin), the vicinity of Burlington, ON (5 pins), and the vicinity of Detroit (5 pins). If there were a deal between Model S owners which created a network which would make these trips possible, I'd do my part by installing an HPWC for the use of the other people.
I think I'm too antisocial to take the lead on starting such a club, even though I would find it valuable.
Though on the other hand (sigh), if we had such a club, it might make more sense to get public charging stations installed.
There seem to be no public chargers planned at more than 30 amps anywhere near where I am, unless Sun Country starts planting them in southwestern Ontario. (I emailed them to ask.)
