Charging at Scotland's FIRST Ultra charger

[MarkX100D]

Hi there,

For those of you interested, I just posted a video of my experience with charging at Scotland's FIRST Ultra charger situated at Gretna Green opened a few days ago.

The 350kW Ionity ultra chargers at Gretna:

 

[pdk42]

For the impatient without 5 mins up watch the video, what's the headlines on charge rate?

 

[Mr Miserable]

What's he saying?

 

[james_power]

I'm afraid he has the wrong model to get really good rates. You need a model 3 and then you'll get 190kW

 

[james_power]

Sometime next year we'll get a software update that will enable 250kW for model 3's

 

[Rob R]

As far as I can see, he got 111 kW. No better than superchargers, and likely to be much more expensive on Ionity, unless they have a temporary free vend deal. No doubt other cars would do a bit better. Bjørn has got much higher speeds on Ionity, with MC Hammer (performance Model 3) but he is doing it to provide entertainment for viewers, not because it makes financial sense (for a man with 1 million free supercharger km to use over the next 140 years)

 

[Rooster6655]

Hi there,

For those of you interested, I just posted a video of my experience with charging at Scotland's FIRST Ultra charger situated at Gretna Green opened a few days ago.

The 350kW Ionity ultra chargers at Gretna:

I guess the Nissan Leaf that pulled up didn't stay long then!

 

[sam48]

What's he saying?

So funny. So original.

 

[dst87]

I think these charger cost £8 per charge right now. I think if you were doing a fairly full charge it would be cheaper than Supercharging, and faster if using a Model 3.

Supercharger is 24p per kW so you only need 34 kW for the Ionity to be cheaper.

 

[Adopado]

Hi there,

For those of you interested, I just posted a video of my experience with charging at Scotland's FIRST Ultra charger situated at Gretna Green opened a few days ago.

The 350kW Ionity ultra chargers at Gretna:

You were flippin' quick to get in there! It surely was only operational for less then 24hrs! Do you have inside information?

 

[dst87]

Supercharger is 24p per kW so you only need 34 kW for the Ionity to be cheaper.

I just realised that I used kW instead of kWh here. Please don't crucify me. It's too late to edit my post, apparently.

 

[MrBadger]

I just realised that I used kW instead of kWh here. Please don't crucify me. It's too late to edit my post, apparently.

thankfully us UK forum members seem to be mostly tolerant of that sort of oversight

 

[ianto999]

I charges there last night - and was disappointed with the rate.
M3 with preconditioned battery at 32% only got 142kw (6c outside). By the time it got to 68%, down to 86kw
Hopped over to SC and got 88kw.
Charger 3 didn't seem to like my car, So I had to shift to charger 4. I was the only one there.
The app/scan QR/ pay process worked ok but is a bit clunky when it's chilly, the qr code is small!
Anyone had faster rates ?
I'm not going to use it again after this experiment, unless it gets a lot faster.
Just reminds me how good SC Network is.

 

[booyaka76]

I charges there last night - and was disappointed with the rate.
M3 with preconditioned battery at 32% only got 142kw (6c outside). By the time it got to 68%, down to 86kw
Hopped over to SC and got 88kw.
Charger 3 didn't seem to like my car, So I had to shift to charger 4. I was the only one there.
The app/scan QR/ pay process worked ok but is a bit clunky when it's chilly, the qr code is small!
Anyone had faster rates ?
I'm not going to use it again after this experiment, unless it gets a lot faster.
Just reminds me how good SC Network is.

my understanding is 150 is the max on the model 3 - you can't charger any faster than this and that is only just gone up from 100 on non SC chargers.

 

[WannabeOwner]

my understanding is 150 is the max on the model 3

Bjorn shows over 190 kW on M3P

(about 3 minutes in after battery has warmed up)

 

[arg]

Appears to be cheaper (and easier) if you use a TheNewMotion card - their map quotes EUR7.60 per session, cheaper than Ionity's £8 or even their EUR8 for European locations.

 

[jgwozdzicki]

my understanding is 150 is the max on the model 3 - you can't charger any faster than this and that is only just gone up from 100 on non SC chargers.

I thought the M3 charging speed were as follows:

M3 Standard+: 100kW DC
M3 AWD LR: 150kW DC
M3 Performance: 250kW DC

Have I got that wrong?

 

[booyaka76]

I thought the M3 charging speed were as follows:

M3 Standard+: 100kW DC
M3 AWD LR: 150kW DC
M3 Performance: 250kW DC

Have I got that wrong?

not sure - you maybe right - I can't confirm either way.

 

[CMc1]

I thought the M3 charging speed were as follows:

M3 Standard+: 100kW DC
M3 AWD LR: 150kW DC
M3 Performance: 250kW DC

Have I got that wrong?

M3 Standard+: 100kW DC (due to be increased as noted in latest earnings call by Musk)

M3 AWD LR: 250kW DC

M3 Performance: 250kW DC

Max Tesla SuC available in UK currently is 150kW. 250kW is V3 (US / CA regions currently)