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Has anyone had this message when Super Charging?
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Limits are for the busiest 17% of Superchargers, especially on holiday weekends.
Tesla starts limiting charge to 80% at busy Superchargers to reduce wait times - Electrek
Tesla starts limiting charge to 80% at busy Superchargers to reduce wait times - Electrek
Welcome to the holidays, lots of Superchargers have this enabled.
Of course you really shouldn't be charging that much anyway.
Of course you really shouldn't be charging that much anyway.
It first started showing up, I think, at the beginning of the year. Intent is to try to keep people from sitting at Superchargers that others may want access to. The Mission Supercharger looks to be an Urban Supercharger, so it is a little surprising, but watch it during the holiday, I suspect that it may get busier than usual.
KArnold
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I'm surprised Maumee would be considered a "busy" location. I've been there many times and don't often see another car, except once when there was a line (and one charger broken). I've not seen the 80% warning (even on that one busy visit) so it might be new for Maumee as well.
@dabbler - was it crowded when you got that message?
@dabbler - was it crowded when you got that message?
ucmndd
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It's just a reminder for people to move their cars. You can charge to 100% if you adjust it. Not a hard limit. I'm a little annoyed with Tesla about their busy superchargers. They are not doing their part to help with busy superchargers.
Just yesterday I charged at Santa Ana. Always a busy station. 3 stalls out of 12 were open. I got lucky and got an unpaired stall. I arrived at 2% and only got 60 kW the entire session up to 45% when I left. At Buena Park I recently got only 9 kW for 20 minutes. I assume the entire site is limited to limit demand charges.
At several sites that I visited in the last 4 months, when I check the charge rate of both cars on paired stalls, the total power never adds up to 150 kW (which is what the station is capable of in theory). Usually it's only 100 kW combined at the max.
Non working stalls is also a common thing now. Fountain Valley, Downey and Santa Ana had non working stalls for weeks.
There is several things that Tesla could do that would help a lot of busy stations. Especially the poor charge rate when a site is full requires everyone to charge longer, thus making the problem even worse.
Just yesterday I charged at Santa Ana. Always a busy station. 3 stalls out of 12 were open. I got lucky and got an unpaired stall. I arrived at 2% and only got 60 kW the entire session up to 45% when I left. At Buena Park I recently got only 9 kW for 20 minutes. I assume the entire site is limited to limit demand charges.
At several sites that I visited in the last 4 months, when I check the charge rate of both cars on paired stalls, the total power never adds up to 150 kW (which is what the station is capable of in theory). Usually it's only 100 kW combined at the max.
Non working stalls is also a common thing now. Fountain Valley, Downey and Santa Ana had non working stalls for weeks.
There is several things that Tesla could do that would help a lot of busy stations. Especially the poor charge rate when a site is full requires everyone to charge longer, thus making the problem even worse.
TiggerTime
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Tesla announced this back at the end of May this year. It is normally only for locations they identify as high volume usage so that more people can get charged since that last 20% takes longer than the initial 50-80% SOC.
You would think since the SC locations are all networked that they could have this computer controlled to only activate during actual high usage times and deactivate when lower usage times.
OTARon
Member
I saw that once at a SC on my cross country trip, lucky for me I was able to move it back up to 100% since 80% would not have been enough range to get to the next charger. We made it to 97%, left, got to next one with 8%. Some of the chargers on the West side of the nation are far a part and over mountains.
Lasttoy
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I would cheer if I ever saw 144, the old antique cars have been throttled down, I'm lucky to ever see 100. Last weekend my high was 80, last night in Orlando it was 67. I read there is a class action suit about the SW limiting charging now.
Electric700
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Lasttoy
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dsnows
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Don't think it matters how busy the SC actually is at the moment. The designation is based on historical usage.
TFCooper3
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