Well, doesn't sound like we will see videos of hour long waits tomorrow. Awesome work by Tesla
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Holiday travel availability / congestion at CA Superchargers; possible solutions, complaints, comments, discussion
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I guess my question would be how does the SC know? Is Tesla looking at location data for Tesla’s near a supercharger and making an assessment?
ucmndd
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Tesla is selling nearly 25,000 cars per quarter in California.
Thanksgiving is a much more significant travel holiday than July 4.
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As an aside, I did I-5 from the Seattle area to Grants Pass Oregon this afternoon. While a few SCs showed full, the Tesla nav routed me around them to ones that had free stalls. Charged in Vancouver WA (the one north of the mall, the mall SC was full or 1 free), Salem, Myrtle Creek, and Grants Pass. Myrtle Creek is a new one. It was full much of the day. But when I arrived there were lots of free spots. The car really didn’t need to stop there - but I needed a pit stop.
Moderator note: Moved 17 posts on EV charging in California to this new thread:
teslamotorsclub.com
It's a good conversation, just not on-topic for this thread.
Bruce.
General California charging discussion
Moderator note: The first 17 posts of this thread were moved out of the "Holiday Travel" thread in the California forum. All these makes me wonder, is it even practical to keep scaling like this, if there are 2x or 3x the no. of Teslas on the road in say three years? Or how about the volume on...
teslamotorsclub.com
It's a good conversation, just not on-topic for this thread.
Bruce.
israndy
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Holiday Supercharging | Tesla
Charge for free during off-peak hours at select Superchargers this Thanksgiving holiday.
Bruce.
cpa
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Holiday Supercharging | Tesla
Charge for free during off-peak hours at select Superchargers this Thanksgiving holiday.www.tesla.com
Bruce.
I noticed that Tesla removed this opportunity for the Superchargers along SR99, as they were part of their Thanksgiving largesse. Oh well.....
The 101, too.
I imagine that they looked at where the rollout was successful over Thanksgiving as well as other areas that could possibly be helped in other parts of the country, and used that to design the map for X-mas. So, as regards SR-99 and US-101, either it turned out that it wasn't needed because traffic levels weren't that high along those routes or the program wasn't successful for getting drivers along them to adjust their travel times to off peak hours so it wasn't worth repeating. Though I kind of doubt the latter possibility would get them to end coverage as even minor help can be valuable.
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israndy
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Also, 99 has a bunch of free charging at rest areas. I'll be taking advantage of it anyway, I guess not everyone has a CHAdeMO adapter. Then I'll be cutting over to try out two new free rest area chargers on 5 as I get closer to home. Probably won't be the ONLY one trying to take advantage of them, like I ran into people charging both north and south in Maxwell even though I left the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving.
I wouldn't need to use CHAdeMO if I was staying in Vegas, just come back later that weekend, but I am only going that route as I wanna check out the free charging out to Mesquite and by the time I come back the off peak time will have passed.
I wouldn't need to use CHAdeMO if I was staying in Vegas, just come back later that weekend, but I am only going that route as I wanna check out the free charging out to Mesquite and by the time I come back the off peak time will have passed.
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
Kettleman City SUCKED, anyone know how to tell if an S or X can use 250kW? I know the new ones without chrome (like the Plaid) can use it, but there were a bunch of X's taking the few 250kW slots (where you can relax in the café) instead of using the 150kW, but I don't remember if the Raven models could use the extra power of if they were just taking one of those precious spots because no one told them not to.
I ended up going across the street to KC2 but there isn't a toilet, that's gotta happen
I ended up going across the street to KC2 but there isn't a toilet, that's gotta happen
ucmndd
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I have zero shame taking a 250kw stall at KC even though my car can’t take the full power. If one is available I’ll do it every time.
ESPECIALLY when it’s busy. V3 is a guaranteed 120+ kw, a shared v2 is ~70kw max. That’s a huge difference.
Answer is probably no. If there were long lines, it would be all over the internet
That will never happen. If Tesla opens the network it will be too CCS vehicles not CHAdeMO ones. On the other hand it could be overrun by Bolts...
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israndy
Supercharger Hunter
Say what?
I was just going to make the CCS comment, and Elon specified that if the car charges too slowly you will receive an idle-like fee.
israndy
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