Kansas is full

[Tshaffertodd]

Kansas is full. Working our way back from Colorado to Missouri and after the new addition at limit every other supercharger had a line to wait. 3/6 not working in Hays today. Had to charge for 2 hours at destination charger at local comfort in- thankyou, otherwise the line was more than 8 cars with only 3 working. Lines everywhere else. Hope they increase size of these with more chargers. Have had my Tesla for 4 years and never experienced anything like this across mid America. We are growing too with cross country trips this year. Go Tesla and thankyou for future high volume chargers on I 70

 

[Nosken]

If your car can support CCS, you might look at getting the adapter.
The newest software is supposed to reroute around too busy chargers.

 

[Mockingbird]

Have you tried charging at other fast chargers?

 

[Genie]

If he’s had his Tesla 4 years it’s probably not CCS enabled.

 

[israndy]

That's easy to fix:

Retrofit CCS compatibility onto earlier (NA) Model 3 - DIY approach

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Kansas is full. Working our way back from Colorado to Missouri and after the new addition at limit every other supercharger had a line to wait. 3/6 not working in Hays today. Had to charge for 2 hours at destination charger at local comfort in- thankyou, otherwise the line was more than 8 cars with only 3 working. Lines everywhere else. Hope they increase size of these with more chargers. Have had my Tesla for 4 years and never experienced anything like this across mid America. We are growing too with cross country trips this year. Go Tesla and thankyou for future high volume chargers on I 70

106 miles
10 stalls v2 Colby, KS
106 miles
6 stalls v2 Hays, KS.
93.9 miles
6 stalls v2 Salinas, KS
104.5 miles
Topeka, KS

Clearly, that's a potential choke point, and unless you'd have been lucky that the 3 failures were in different pairs, it's going to be bad.

Tesla will have seen that, and I hope they can expand and get some splitters in there.

 

[Skotty]

Kansas is full. Working our way back from Colorado to Missouri and after the new addition at limit every other supercharger had a line to wait. 3/6 not working in Hays today. Had to charge for 2 hours at destination charger at local comfort in- thankyou, otherwise the line was more than 8 cars with only 3 working. Lines everywhere else. Hope they increase size of these with more chargers. Have had my Tesla for 4 years and never experienced anything like this across mid America. We are growing too with cross country trips this year. Go Tesla and thankyou for future high volume chargers on I 70

That makes me a little nervous. I've been making periodic Missouri<-->Colorado trips for years in my Teslas and have never had to wait for any chargers on I-70. Guess demand is finally exceeding charger supply on this route, at least during peak seasons. Hopefully they expand the route. I-70 has always been a busy route for motoring.

BTW, it's possible we have seen each other around town. You location is very close to mine.

 

[Prairie]

That makes me a little nervous. I've been making periodic Missouri<-->Colorado trips for years in my Teslas and have never had to wait for any chargers on I-70. Guess demand is finally exceeding charger supply on this route, at least during peak seasons. Hopefully they expand the route. I-70 has always been a busy route for motoring.

BTW, it's possible we have seen each other around town. You location is very close to mine.

Just wait until it’s cold. Time to charge becomes ridiculous Without superchargers and distances become limiting.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

That makes me a little nervous. I've been making periodic Missouri<-->Colorado trips for years in my Teslas and have never had to wait for any chargers on I-70. Guess demand is finally exceeding charger supply on this route, at least during peak seasons. Hopefully they expand the route. I-70 has always been a busy route for motoring.

BTW, it's possible we have seen each other around town. You location is very close to mine.

The issue isn't _directly_ demand _exceeding_ supply, it's demand being closer to supply, and there being a lack of redundancy due to the 100 mile gaps, and slower (v2), low capacity (6 stall) Superchargers.
With a fault that knocks out 3 of 6 stalls (probably at least 2 in a pair), traffic piles up and the effect ripples, as people charge less there, and charge more either side.

Put 1 new v3 location between Hays and Salina and it would have a huge impact.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

The issue isn't _directly_ demand _exceeding_ supply, it's demand being closer to supply, and there being a lack of redundancy due to the 100 mile gaps, and slower (v2), low capacity (6 stall) Superchargers.
With a fault that knocks out 3 of 6 stalls (probably at least 2 in a pair), traffic piles up and the effect ripples, as people charge less there, and charge more either side.

Put 1 new v3 location between Hays and Salina and it would have a huge impact.

Or put 2 new locations, one between Hays and Salina and another between Salina and Topeka and it would also have a huge impact.

Russell, KS
Target opening in Q1 2023

Abilene, KS
Target opening in Q4 2022

Putting dots for the above at the McDonalds, you can see that there would be much more flexibility in travel, as well as, of course, adding new v3 capacity :

From\To	Colby	Hays	Russell	Salina	Abilene	Topeka	Big Springs
Colby	-	106	131.3	199	221.4	302.5	317.8
Hays	105.8	-	26.1	94	116.1	197.2	212.5
Russell	131.3	25.9	-	68.4	90.5	171.7	186.9
Salina	199.3	93.9	68.2	-	23.4	104.5	119.7
Abilene	221.7	116.2	90.6	23.4	-	81.5	96.8
Topeka	302.7	197.3	171.6	104.5	81.7	-	16.4
Big Springs	317.9	212.5	186.8	119.6	96.9	17	-