Bighorn
Top Supercharger
Some preconditioning initiates almost an hour out, so any short drives are going to be homeopathic in raising battery temps toward optimal levels, which are around 125F.
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scottf200
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FYI, for the future, it is way more common to include the kW value vs the "MPH" as a unit others are used to / familiar with.
... especially because the MPH number is tied to how YOU drive YOUR vehicle. Seconding use of kW 
Normally LiOn batteries like to be around 70F for charging. Is Tesla somehow different?
Bighorn
Top Supercharger
I believe this is what has been gleaned empirically from CANbus data. Anything below 60F significantly retards charging power.
Rogue Synapse
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Just an update to say this new charger has been live for over a week. Haven’t charged there yet though, will post a picture next time I get there. Screenshot from app shows the charger online (and also the original Asheville supercharger has been expanded from 8 to 12 at the same time, also live now),
Stopped at the original Asheville Supercharger. The newly installed add on chargers appear to be V3 based on the thin cable. I charged from a new unit but maxed out at 150kW after plugging in with a 10% battery. Not sure how this works with a mix of V2 and V3 chargers at the same location. Is it possible they will run the new V3 chargers at 150kW until they convert the older V2’s?
I hit the whole foods chargers over the weekend. I got full v3 speeds.
70f is probably for ideal charging from a degradation standpoint at a slow rate. For higher C rates tesla gets the battery much warmer.
There are definitely V2 & V3 chargers side by side. I was not billed only because I have some free miles I am using. Looking at the chargers, they are physically different. Can they operate both types simultaneous at the same location? Could they have throttled back the V3’s to 150kW? Never seen this setup before.
It isn't common, but there are other sites like this. They have separate cabinets, so I can't think of a reason that they'd have to be throttled.
Which is not to say that oddball setups are impossible. Maybe some utility limitation would make them limit output?
I used the chargers at Whole Foods on Thursday 5/13 and got full v3 speed. Maxed out around 230 kW.
Maybe it's in anticipation of Tesla opening a service center in Asheville? Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking.
I know that Tesla won't build a service center in Greenville / Spartanburg because South Carolina will not allow them to so Asheville would be the next best place to service Greenville.
Just my opinion, but....
Charleston, SC proper is a destination, not a stop on a road trip. Superchargers tend to be located for road trippers.
Asheville gets two because two interstates pass through there...I-26 and I-40.
IMO the supercharger in Columbia is for I-77 traffic. Columbia needs another one for I-26 traffic. Asheville has two, why not Columbia?
Charleston, SC proper is a destination, not a stop on a road trip. Superchargers tend to be located for road trippers.
Asheville gets two because two interstates pass through there...I-26 and I-40.
IMO the supercharger in Columbia is for I-77 traffic. Columbia needs another one for I-26 traffic. Asheville has two, why not Columbia?
There also needs to be something else on the run from charleston to charlotte. Right now columbia is basically the only game in town and it gets BUSY during weekend travel times.
Yep. There seems to be a lot of that going on now since Tesla is selling so many cars. Like Asheville, Columbia needs an expansion of the existing SC.
Asheville is also roughly at the middle of the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC and gets a lot of traffic from that during peak seasons.
DavidAsheville
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Stopped by just to see and to get a picture of the finished installation.
scottf200
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Seems like this layout will confuse some (as I've seen in Canada once) as that is a forward pull in stall. Meaning that pedestal is for the other side to use and would lower the capacity by 1 pedestal. Unless I'm missing something.
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