Hi!
I've got a new "metallic silver" aka charcoal blue (
) Model 3 delivered on November 8. I am loving life. I'm a mom of 3 and a chauffeur by afternoon. 
) I recently took a solo long-distance trip of about 1000 miles round trip and learned some valuable lessons. The things I am puzzling about are the following:
1. How do I adapt to charge at a non-Tesla station? I have a Nema adapter and SAE J1772 Charging Adapter. They were useless to me on the trip. I still don't know what they adapt/attach to.
2. What type of charge can you do overnight at any person's house? Do either of the above adapters work for a typical home plug? If so, how?
3. What is the absolute lowest charge you've survived? What is the lowest you should ever let your car get to?
I had great success charging at Tesla charging stations along the way. The problem was my destination was halfway between two stations and I did a lot of driving around while there. It would have been such an anxiety relief to have been able to slow charge over night to gain just a little cushion on my sweat-drive the next morning back to the closest Tesla station. I stopped at an Electrify America station and had no adapters for it (I now know what kind I need, but still can't find one. They all seem to be for non-Tesla's to charge TO a Tesla station no matter how I put in the google search).
This is my second(?) post here so sorry if I broke protocol by asking too many questions in my intro. The internet is less helpful than I would have thought about all of this!
Thanks in advance! =)
I've got a new "metallic silver" aka charcoal blue (
) Model 3 delivered on November 8. I am loving life. I'm a mom of 3 and a chauffeur by afternoon. ) I recently took a solo long-distance trip of about 1000 miles round trip and learned some valuable lessons. The things I am puzzling about are the following:1. How do I adapt to charge at a non-Tesla station? I have a Nema adapter and SAE J1772 Charging Adapter. They were useless to me on the trip. I still don't know what they adapt/attach to.
2. What type of charge can you do overnight at any person's house? Do either of the above adapters work for a typical home plug? If so, how?
3. What is the absolute lowest charge you've survived? What is the lowest you should ever let your car get to?
I had great success charging at Tesla charging stations along the way. The problem was my destination was halfway between two stations and I did a lot of driving around while there. It would have been such an anxiety relief to have been able to slow charge over night to gain just a little cushion on my sweat-drive the next morning back to the closest Tesla station. I stopped at an Electrify America station and had no adapters for it (I now know what kind I need, but still can't find one. They all seem to be for non-Tesla's to charge TO a Tesla station no matter how I put in the google search).
This is my second(?) post here so sorry if I broke protocol by asking too many questions in my intro. The internet is less helpful than I would have thought about all of this!
Thanks in advance! =)
