My wife & I just did a trip FROM SAN DIEGO to CABAZON, CA (outlet stores) which pushed my P85 range limit. Since we experienced more wind and hills then we expected, thought it best to add 30 or so miles on the Blink network for "insurance" since there are currently no Tesla Charging options near Cabazon. All 3 blink chargers we found using the blink iphone app were non-functional even though they were listed as open/available. So instead of adding 30 miles we lost 30 miles and now had no hope of making it back home. We called Tesla and they suggested http://www.plugshare.com/. We found a fellow Tesla owner a few miles from where we were who had an HPC. Made a call and got a return call in 5 minutes inviting us over to add the necessary miles to get home. In the time it took to talk all things Tesla and check out each others rides we were back on the road on the way home. If you have a HPC and live in a EV charging "dead zone"... please consider joining Plug-share to help your fellow Tesla owners! A big thank you to our new Tesla friends :wink:
LESSON 1: DON'T TRUST THE BLINK NETWORK...ESPECIALLY IN A CRITICAL SITUATION
LESSON 2: AS WE ALREADY KNOW, TESLA OWNERS ARE THE GREATEST!
LESSON 3: TESLA'S SUPERCHARGING NETWORK CAN'T COME QUICK ENOUGH...HOME BASED HPC'S ALREADY BLOW AWAY MOST OF THE NON-TESLA CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE
LESSON 1: DON'T TRUST THE BLINK NETWORK...ESPECIALLY IN A CRITICAL SITUATION
LESSON 2: AS WE ALREADY KNOW, TESLA OWNERS ARE THE GREATEST!
LESSON 3: TESLA'S SUPERCHARGING NETWORK CAN'T COME QUICK ENOUGH...HOME BASED HPC'S ALREADY BLOW AWAY MOST OF THE NON-TESLA CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE