Drone Flyer
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It will be known as the Model 3A by then! Lol!
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Supercharger - Barrie, ON (2nd site on Bayfield St)
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sakimano
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sakimano
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Those are largely bedroom communities so I guess the rationale for no superchargers is that tesla owners there are charging at home in their single family dwellings (which the Grand majority of Burlington and Oakville is made up of) . But that gap between Toronto and Grimsby is significant. If you're visiting someone overnight in burlington or Oakville and are coming from the east an Oakville supercharger would be great to help you get back without stopping in Toronto.
Even then you'd have few people showing empathy for that very specific plight.
The tesla store in Oakville is a few minutes from my house and office and it wouldn't be a bad spot for 10 superchargers. Just not sure it's necessary yet.
mrElbe
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I hope not - as Toronto <> Markham. There are supposed to be SCs opened in Toronto and North York in 2017, and plus five more within Toronto (Scarborough, Etobicoke, Yonge & Eg, Liberty Village, the Annex) in 2018. People have been assuming that the Toronto SC will be downtown, but that may just be because the current placeholder is at city hall.
Drone Flyer
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Can someone see if it’s possible to move those new 20 chargers from Barrie to Ottawa, where they are badly needed? lol!
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mknox
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I had always thought Gravenhurst would have been perfect. Maybe someday....
One of the early Supercharger deployment maps I saw (don't ask me how) showed the site that eventually went to Huntsville in Bracebridge. There is a plaza very close to Hwy 11 with tons of parking, restaurants, Wal-Mart and Home Depot in Bracebridge. That would be an ideal site.
Gravenhurst would really be stacking them up in the Hwy 11/400 corridor. You already have two in Barrie with 28 stalls. There is one coming next year in Orillia. There is one in Huntsville and one in Parry Sound. Do you really need Gravenhurst as well? How about some love for the folks that cottage in Haliburton or the Kawarthas? One in Minden, or Bobcaygeon.
With apologies to the late, great Gord:
When I left your house this morning,
I had a range of four oh nine
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the battery warnings
Reveal themselves, one km at time
Drove back to town this morning
Range anxiety on my mind
I thought of maybe quittin'
Thought of leavin' it behind
With apologies to the late, great Gord:
When I left your house this morning,
I had a range of four oh nine
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the battery warnings
Reveal themselves, one km at time
Drove back to town this morning
Range anxiety on my mind
I thought of maybe quittin'
Thought of leavin' it behind
mknox
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Yes, with the current deployment you are right. This was something I thought about before the first Supercharger even showed up in Canada
The simple answer is no. I think that perhaps if instead of Huntsville they had put it in Gravenhurst it may have been a more strategic placement (at least, selfishly, for myself). Given what's there now and what's currently rolling out, I'd say one or 2 somewhere in Haliburton or the other places you've mentioned would be helpful - more so than my suggestion.
@Proudlock no I don't think so yet. I asked @RedAntisocial and he said he couldn't use it because he had a Chev Volt. Do you want to be the next contestant on The Price Is Right?
mrElbe
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On Friday evening I went by and the stalls Tesla logo was not lit yet.
How soon after they're usable do they show up on the car's map? I'm a new owner...
Peter_M
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Typically within a day after Tesla has tested them and confirmed that they are working. But sometimes they work (or some stalls work) for a few days before they get tested and officially opened.
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