Eastern Canada Superchargers

[wayner]

I doubt it, unless some of the units are OOS.

 

[Drone Flyer]

My wife is driving to Ottawa on boxing day and will be stopping at the port hope and Kingston superchargers. Any idea what to expect on the busy travel day? Will there likely be waits?

You'll have to wait four hours at each charger as the lineup of Tesla's will make each one very busy.
Just kidding of course! You'll be fine!

 

[TytanX]

Thanks all. Good to know what to expect.

 

[hingisfan]

Port Hope 4B is still not working if anyone is travelling. 4a working fine tho. Happy holidays!

 

[mrElbe]

To paraphrase Shakespeare:

"4B or not 4B, that is a charging question"

or

" Is this a working charging cord I see before me? Come let me plug thee."

 

[hingisfan]

"Why doth 2A at yonder Lawrence castle persist in donning such a flamboyant red petticoat?"

 

[wallstguy]

So was supercharging both ways to and from kingston on Thursday and experienced this at Port Hope...

I was plugged into charger 1a - It gave me one of the fastest charges I've ever seen at these things at 120 KW charging rate....was like this for a few mins and then suddenly dropped down to 30KW (Battery was still <20% charged at this point)....eventually slowly creeped back up and stabilized at just under 60KW charging rate.

I unplugged and switched to 2a - Started off nicely, around 110kw...after a few mins, went down to 90kw, and then after my battery was about 40% charged, it went down to 60 KW charging rate again...

Tried to do a switch to 3a, and it stayed at 60Kw charging rate...so I just let it charge...

IS this normal?

 

[hingisfan]

I plugged in at 35 or 40% at PH the other day and it went to 60 or 65kw.

 

[wallstguy]

So 60/65 kw is normal for >40%?

I just figured it'd charge at 100+ until 80%.

I'm confused by Tesla's claim of 30 mins for an 80% charge...

Usually I've plugged my 75D in with at least 10%, and have charge limit at 80%, and it tells me 50 mins - 1hr

 

[Forty Creek]

Wonder how long before we see one of these new Super Duper Chargers installed in Canada? They will need to be backward compatible with the current fleet. Wonder if many of the existing locations could handle the power to be upgraded?

 

[doubeld]

It will probably go into new locations. No sense removing an old site just to upgrade it when there are so many gaps in the current SC network.
It's really odd. They're still producing SC stations with "old" 120kW chargers and non-pull through stalls. They've got lots of work to do.

 

[rypalmer]

Wonder how long before we see one of these new Super Duper Chargers installed in Canada? They will need to be backward compatible with the current fleet. Wonder if many of the existing locations could handle the power to be upgraded?

They will need to exist first. Also, that was quite a hyperbolic article... "off grid" smh.. good luck powering even a very small Supercharger with a solar array on site. Far too capital intensive to bother, for starters.

 

[doubeld]

I also don't think they will be backwards compatible. At least not with the same plug. I think people will need to tone down their expectations for the next few years. It will probably only be ~500kW max but shared between 4 stalls. The only vehicles that will be able to use the full 500kW will probably be semis or long range pickup/utility trucks with > 200kWh packs (ie. not passenger cars as we will probably never see a passenger car with > 125kWh packs).

 

[doubeld]

They will need to exist first. Also, that was quite a hyperbolic article... "off grid" smh.. good luck powering even a very small Supercharger with a solar array on site. Far too capital intensive to bother, for starters.

I bet the Swift Current Supercharger with a solar array on the roof will be net-energy positive

 

[TooManyAirMiles]

I bet the Swift Current Supercharger with a solar array on the roof will be net-energy positive

That is going to be tough..... Even if there are only 48 charges a day (2 an hour) @ 50KwH of charge each you are talking about 2500 KwH a day. That has to be one very big roof.

 

[doubeld]

2 charges an hour? Are you kidding? I've been through Red Deer a fair bit myself and according to my Dad who works nearby, the chargers are idle a good part of the day every day. And that's on a stretch of road that sees a relatively lot of Tesla traffic.
I think Swift Current will probably only see 2 Teslas a day MAX for the first year of operation on average.

 

[Peter_M]

If you missed it, Elon tweeted that superchargers to drive across Canada should be done in 2017. Of course, we probably need to add the customary 6-24 months...

Elon Musk on Twitter

 

[rypalmer]

If you missed it, Elon tweeted that superchargers to drive across Canada should be done in 2017. Of course, we probably need to add the customary 6-24 months...

Elon Musk on Twitter

I'm not holding my breath though.

 

[blackscraper]

If you missed it, Elon tweeted that superchargers to drive across Canada should be done in 2017. Of course, we probably need to add the customary 6-24 months...

Elon Musk on Twitter

I'd cast my doubt over the claim although I would like to drive to PEI, Halifax, etc on supercharger network someday in the near future.

 

[Peter_M]

I'd cast my doubt over the claim although I would like to drive to PEI, Halifax, etc on supercharger network someday in the near future.

I believe the cross Canada supercharger network will get done, but I would bet on 2019, not 2017 for the last link in the chain. I hope they focus on connecting Quebec out to Halifax first.