Lessons learned from a 2300 mile road trip

[Y_tho]

I may have to check but I thought they removed the chill mode in the newer reg braking options. I might be wrong. My older Model 3 SR+ had the chill mode

Chill mode is still there (low, standard). Only the regen setting (low, standard) has been removed.

 

[socal_my]

4. In Pittsburgh the car guided me to a supercharger in a grocery supermarket ( I think Giant). But when I went in and circled the parking lot I could not see any superchargers. I was perplexed and as I came out and initially decided to go much further out but in the last minute I made one more attempt and returned back. I saw a parking garage and decided to enter and circled inside and there I spotted 8 superchargers in a dark and dinky area. It could be easily missed but for the fact there were two vehicles that were actively charging. I am not sure if the screen indicates the exact location of the supercharger.

Something similar happened to me when I stopped at Temecula,CA to charge. Navigation directed me to a shopping center/mall. There was a parking garage as well as open parking lots. So, I was clearly confused where to go. On entering the very busy parking garage, I was again confused where to look for the supercharger. I had to drive through every section of the busy parking structure finally finding the charger at the top corner. There needs to be some more info available in the navigation to make this better.

 

[iamnid]

Something similar happened to me when I stopped at Temecula,CA to charge. Navigation directed me to a shopping center/mall. There was a parking garage as well as open parking lots. So, I was clearly confused where to go. On entering the very busy parking garage, I was again confused where to look for the supercharger. I had to drive through every section of the busy parking structure finally finding the charger at the top corner. There needs to be some more info available in the navigation to make this better.

I know the exact supercharger you are referring to. What I find helps is to look up the supercharger on google maps (e.g. on your phone). Usually someone has taken photos of the supercharger station and you can glean from that if it is against a building, in a parking garage, on the roof of the parking garage etc.

 

[socal_my]

I know the exact supercharger you are referring to. What I find helps is to look up the supercharger on google maps (e.g. on your phone). Usually someone has taken photos of the supercharger station and you can glean from that if it is against a building, in a parking garage, on the roof of the parking garage etc.

Thank You. Later, I found that plugshare app gives some more details on where the supercharge is. It also includes photos.

 

[boulder.dude]

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a convenient way to search for V3 Superchargers (I couldn't find a way on the Tesla site, nor in the ABRP app).

Use PlugShare — one of the filter options is Minimum KW and you can set it to 200KW to show only V3s.

PlugShare is a valuable companion to ABRP and Tesla nav. Check it out!

 

[TomServo]

We just finished another 2K trip to visit the grandkids in southern MD. We drove from southern IL via I-64. We had ONE poor SuperCharging stop and that was at the SuperCharger in Louisville Ky on Gardiner Ln. One other car there and all the stalls maxed out at less than 70 kWh. I arrived under 20%.

We did have tesla Destination Chargers at the hotel we stayed at in WVA, woke to a 90% both mornings. That was a nice perk.

R/T stats.

Our Y performed flawlessly.