The Supercharger cables are very short, in most cases you couldn’t get two cars close enough to test. I would be 90% certain that it would be one at a time only.
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Model 3 Charging in Australia
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Chuq
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raynewman
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That’s encouraging because it means there’s more than one technician trained to do the upgrade.
Not a lot! All Sales moved to Chadstone (a shopping mall), lounge closed except during weekday hours, can’t buy even minor parts like trim clips -have to email and mail order, and for first time ever staff person on desk generally unhelpful. Signs of financial stress Tesla is under - it sure isn’t the customer focussed organisation it was.
ARMARM
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ARMARM
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For DC fast charging/Supercharging the Aus Model 3 will use CCS2.
For AC charging a Type 2 plug will still fit, however, a Type 2 supercharger plug won't work.
This is the only reason they are retrofitting superchargers, it's not for other makes.
Chuq
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Most V2 sites will not be upgraded to V3. They're currently testing V3 at a few locations and presumably new sites after then will start to be V3. (Although it's generally speculation - they could continue with a mix of V2 and V3 sites)
For example, between Melbourne and Sydney, when the current SCs are consistently busy, they'd probably rather add more sites in between the current ones, than replace the current ones. So perhaps, Yass, Wangaratta etc. Again this is speculation.
ARMARM
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No, I didn’t say that ... The Type 2 Supercharger plug won’t work in the Model 3, but the Type 2 AC plug (UMC, HPWC etc.) will.
Potentially yes as fastest Type 2 Supercharger is currently 150Kw whilst there are already non Tesla CCS2 chargers rated up to 350Kw.
However the max speed of the charge will depend on a lot of factors including the charging machine the cable is connected to and the max charge speed of your car, your cars state of charge, ambient temperature, battery temperature etc.
Yeah australia is well down the list. It might be a couple of years til we get V3.
Indeed, there are thousands of them elsewhere in the world that will be in need of V3 long before Australia which is literally the worst EV market in the western world.
Also Elon had commented that V3 was going to be for “select high traffic sites on long routes” not for every new site that gets built fro now. I suspect V3 is more expensive and this they’ll be picky about where they are installed.
Chuq
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I don't think it will be *years*. Before being announced Elon said that V3 sites were cheaper for Tesla (I can't find a reference now but I'm not sure if this was to build, to operate, or both). I think it was something to do with the shorter charger times mean fewer stalls to serve the same number of cars as V2 (or the same number of stalls to serve more cars) and the fact that V3 is more easily able to integrate battery storage in to each site (reducing peak energy costs, and - entirely my speculation - allowing the batteries to provide revenue from grid services in times of low usage).
In other words, V3 will be the "new standard" and all new superchargers will be V3 after a certain point in time. (Exception - in the US they still have the 72kW urban superchargers, that we don't get here - and probably won't as they only have room for one cable)
In other words, V3 will be the "new standard" and all new superchargers will be V3 after a certain point in time. (Exception - in the US they still have the 72kW urban superchargers, that we don't get here - and probably won't as they only have room for one cable)
If you had parking spots on the back side of a SC you could reach the cable from each side. Would just need to shift the alignment of the parks.
I still don’t get it - the Type 2 plug is used on Model 3 for the Mobile Connector & Supercharger in America
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