Precisely, I'm at Erie Canal Center every Tuesday evening. It's at least a 15 minute drive to the Tesla supercharger north of Syracuse in Liverpool, NY, (opposite direction from my southward drive home) and it's an old 120 kW charger. When the Tesla charger is busy, I get 60 kW charging, which is fine in a pinch, but part of a big time kill.
Great news to hear that Destiny Mall in Syracuse will get a Tesla charger.
I've placed my order for the CCS1 adapter. Then as you all suggested, I'll sell the Chademo adapter while there's still a market for it and be way better off! Thanks, everyone!
--JS
I won’t completely side with Rocky on this one because I’m sure I’d be struck down with lightning (if youve followed any of our past spats you’d be laughing right now), but you keep saying things that don’t pencil out in the real world. You say old 120 kw chargers. To me this means you don’t understand how Superchargers really work. That’s V2. To only get 60 when someone else is plugged in, it means both of you need to be low enough soc to be above the taper at that moment. Also, based on your story, you are at about 50% when you would need to charge so you will never see 120kw and likely you are seeing 60kw not because you are sharing, but because that’s where you are on the taper of older V2 combined with battery temps from sitting while visiting, etc. It drops pretty quickly above 30% soc. Even on V3 there isn’t much difference above 50%. Maybe 20kw which doesn’t equate to much difference in real world time spent charging. For V3 to make a difference over V2 you need to be below 20%. Also of note, this taper is controlled by the car, not the charger. So you’d see a similar taper at EA. All 3 are identical past 65% soc with EA and V3 almost the same once you hit 40%.
In your example, if you are at 50% and need to top off to get home, maybe to 75% then on V2 that would take about 15 minutes according to this test. The same top off on V3 is 12 minutes and EA is 11 minutes. So a 4 minute time saving for you.
(According to insideevs, the V3 test delivered 75kwh while the EA one only delivered 70kwh. So that is why it finished first. 5kwh equates to about 7% so they would likely finish about the same even with V3 topping out at 250kw and EA at 184kw.)
I also second charging while visiting your family. Chili’s has a free L2 charger and there’s 2 free ones at a nearby radiator shop. 3 hours at 6kw will get you the same 25%. Saves a drove across town and $8 each time you fast charge.
Also, to add in the last cost, time, your $300 adapter is spread across 30 minutes each time you charge. Over the course of a year, if you do this 52 times a year then it would work out much in your favor. $6 per use would be paid off in a year. That’s $12/hr for a year then free. In that aspect, it makes sense if the other options (free charging) don’t work for you.
At the end of the day, you sound like you had already decided to get the adapter so do it without posting on here. Unless you enjoy getting second guessed by random assholes like me and rocky then bring it on
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Cheers!
