Uhh... Scroll down on the same page:
Let me ask you a question. Which part of this sentence did you not understand?
Here is what the Tesla website says. It says many other things, too, but this is most likely the FIRST thing that anyone interested in supercharging will find.
The way the graph I posted is presented, top of the page, entirely unqualified, no little asterix, no further explanation, plain and simple. 30 minutes. 200 miles.
Yes, they have the green percentage page, about two page scrolls further down, and the people who actually are looking for details and are willing to do the math (because down there it's 40 and 75 minutes, no more 30 minutes, and it's percentage with no correlation to miles) can figure it out.
But I bet you a 100 dollars. You show this page to a dozen regular people who are curious about this supercharging thing, most of them will come out of reading this thinking "cool, I can get 200 mile range in 30 minutes". And you can't. Not on an S60, and not on an 85, either, given the aggressive taper.
Why are so many people here absolutely allergic to any type of any statement that isn't RA RA TESLA IS AWESOME. Bu-Yeah!
What is on their page is GROSSLY MISLEADING and FACTUALLY WRONG.
I love the car. I'd buy it again in a heart beat (and given what I've learned about the supercharging, I'd buy an 85 - actually, I think if they more clearly stated this, they'd sell MORE 85s...). I have helped sell four 85s to others so far. That does not make me blind to the fact that Tesla is playing fast and loose with numbers. This is just one of the many examples. Look at the "cost of ownership" calculator. Look at Elon's latest card trick with the ratios of car fires. There is no need for that crap, the car is phenomenal and has no competition in the market. That's why this makes me angry. As an owner and a shareholder.
Sorry I'm taking it out on you, deonb. Seriously. Sorry. Reading your post again I'm almost certain you really just thought I missed the second graph.
But some times this is getting really tiresome in this forum. Admittedly, the Teslamotors.com forum is even worse, but that doesn't make this type of willful ignorance here any better.
Agreed. I found the same thing (with less scientific data points).
Hey, I write these visualization tools, I might as well use them to make my point
Based on this, I don't think they enabled the reduced tapering graph yet - only the 120kW Supercharging.
But once you hit 50% it makes almost no difference for a single car. (It should still help with dual cars though to more quickly get to the state where the charge is shared).
Cool, so here we 100% agree. This will make a nice difference when you are sharing a charger. But I had honestly hoped that my 20%->80% time would drop more.
