Supercharger - Gardnerville, NV

[Cottonwood]

Hi

Does anyone know whether I can make it from Folsum to Gardnerville? Straight shot?

cheers
Dawn

Just use EV Trip Planner to get a good estimate.

Here are some results for a reasonable, winter input. Rerun for your conditions, check every parameter, and make sure the roads are open. I'd do this run with a 90% charge in an 85 with snow tires.

 

[vperl]

The biggest problem with Susanville is that it's about 4 miles west of one of the corners of the Susanville/Janesville-Buntingville/Standish triangular intersection, and each of the legs is 9 miles long. No matter where you put it, you are miles out of the way for either 395 or 36 traffic. I _hate_ triangular intersections with long legs. Best I could come up with is put an SC around Chester to handle the roughly E-W traffic, and another in either Buntingville or Standish for N-S 395 traffic - there'll eventually need to be an SC in Alturas. I suspect there's more traffic going from the Susanville (and points west) area to/from Reno than coming to/from Alturas, which suggests that Buntingville would be best.

 

[vperl]

Susanville, CA. Red Lion has two HPWC 80 AMP

 

[vperl]

It is also only about 135 miles or so from Mt. Shasta City. Makes traveling to or from the Pacific Northwest faster for those going to locations east of Southern California. SR89/44/36 is also a scenic route. I hope Susanville gets one too!

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Susanville, CA. Red Lion has two HPWC

 

[brucet999]

In two visits this week, no cell service for NAV or Tesla App at Topaz Lodge (Misnamed Gardnerville by Tesla).

Your smart phone can connect, but not the car, so NAV can't find the route and distance to your next stop and the Tesla App cannot tell you progress of charging. If you have already entered the next stop into NAV, the charging window can notify you on the main screen when you have sufficient charge to get there, but not via Tesla App.

You will do best to input your next destination before you leave the towns of Minden/Gardnerville (30 miles north of the SC), if headed south, or before leaving Mammoth Lakes or possibly Lee Vining, if headed north. If you wait until you arrive at Topaz Lodge, you will have to use google maps on your smart phone to get distance to the next supercharger of your destination and calculate required SOC by yourself.

 

[PLUS EV]

In two visits this week, no cell service for NAV or Tesla App at Topaz Lodge (Misnamed Gardnerville by Tesla).

Your smart phone can connect, but not the car, so NAV can't find the route and distance to your next stop and the Tesla App cannot tell you progress of charging. If you have already entered the next stop into NAV, the charging window can notify you on the main screen when you have sufficient charge to get there, but not via Tesla App.

You will do best to input your next destination before you leave the towns of Minden/Gardnerville (30 miles north of the SC), if headed south, or before leaving Mammoth Lakes or possibly Lee Vining, if headed north. If you wait until you arrive at Topaz Lodge, you will have to use google maps on your smart phone to get distance to the next supercharger of your destination and calculate required SOC by yourself.

This is quite the first world problem!

Also the supercharger was not misnamed. The address of Topaz Lodge is Gardnerville. I realize it is nowhere near the town of Gardnerville, but Tesla has used the convention of simply using the city name that is used in the address of the host site. If you disagree with this convention, I completely agree with you but it is what they have decided to do. See also: Bakersfield, CA, Arlington, WA, etc. Strangely they did not use this convention with Harris Ranch and Tejon Ranch. I believe the reason for this was that these were among the first superchargers. At some point, they changed their minds and started using the dity name from each site's address.

 

[cpa]

This is quite the first world problem!

Also the supercharger was not misnamed. The address of Topaz Lodge is Gardnerville. I realize it is nowhere near the town of Gardnerville, but Tesla has used the convention of simply using the city name that is used in the address of the host site. If you disagree with this convention, I completely agree with you but it is what they have decided to do. See also: Bakersfield, CA, Arlington, WA, etc. Strangely they did not use this convention with Harris Ranch and Tejon Ranch. I believe the reason for this was that these were among the first superchargers. At some point, they changed their minds and started using the dity name from each site's address.

Place names are tricky. The area in Southern California known as La Crescenta is partly in the City of Glendale, and partly in the unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County. Yet the zip code for both areas is 91214. So, if Tesla places a SC within the city limits of Glendale that has the La Crescenta zip code, what name will Tesla use? Similarly, Eagle Rock is part of the City of Los Angeles. Technically, Eagle Rock takes a Los Angeles address, but Eagle Rock is so well known, that the post office considers the 90041 zip code to be either LA or Eagle Rock.

It seems to me that Tesla should choose place names for its SC to be those names that are more commonly known among the local population, and not by looking up the zip code for a particular street address, especially if the distance from the post office to the actual location is more than a couple of miles.

Back to the Topaz Lake SC, I have noticed on the touchscreen that for about the past ten days or so, there is always one stall shown as in use. I wonder how accurate the usage meter is, or is it possible that one stall is out of service currently? That location to me would not receive a lot of use each and every day. As Siegfried would say to Maxwell Smart, "I find that hard to believe."

 

[emchen]

Back to the Topaz Lake SC, I have noticed on the touchscreen that for about the past ten days or so, there is always one stall shown as in use. I wonder how accurate the usage meter is, or is it possible that one stall is out of service currently? That location to me would not receive a lot of use each and every day. As Siegfried would say to Maxwell Smart, "I find that hard to believe."

When lightly used SC shows one or two stalls in use for extended periods of time, I've learned that it is because a plug is not or could not be placed back within its holster, or the stall is simply off-line. I witnessed the holster issue at Corning, and was told of the "off-line" issue by calling Tesla when my car wasn't charging at Klamath Falls.

 

[emchen]

The Gardnerville / Topaz Lake SC is facing a Chevron station owned by the nearby casino. It has the cleanest bathrooms I have ever encountered. Not just for service centers, but hospitals, and homes. My middle daughter offended my wife by saying it smelled, "nicer than our bathroom at home"! Sorry honey, she does seem to frequently walk in after I've been on the porcelain throne...

Anyways, shout out to the excellent staff at the Chevron service station for their amazing dedication to keeping their bathrooms cleanest in the 50 states!

 

[rkmvca]

n two visits this week, no cell service for NAV or Tesla App at Topaz Lodge (Misnamed Gardnerville by Tesla).

Your smart phone can connect, but not the car, so NAV can't find the route and distance to your next stop and the Tesla App cannot tell you progress of charging. If you have already entered the next stop into NAV, the charging window can notify you on the main screen when you have sufficient charge to get there, but not via Tesla App.

You will do best to input your next destination before you leave the towns of Minden/Gardnerville (30 miles north of the SC), if headed south, or before leaving Mammoth Lakes or possibly Lee Vining, if headed north. If you wait until you arrive at Topaz Lodge, you will have to use google maps on your smart phone to get distance to the next supercharger of your destination and calculate required SOC by yourself.

I'd like to reiterate this. I was just at the "Gardnerville" (Topaz Lodge) SC yesterday and had this problem. Not even my cell phones could get AT&T coverage, however, inside the casino there is free wifi to get online. In any event, I had to get back to the western side of the Bay Area, and didn't charge quite enough to get there, incurring another SC stop in the Central Valley. Sure, a First World problem, but still annoying. Plan ahead if using this SC!

 

[rkmvca]

PS - the food in the Topaz Lodge Casino is acceptable but not great (prices are good), but there is an excellent view from the Coffee Shop over Topaz Lake!

 

[aesculus]

Did this supercharger get swallowed up by mud Monday?

Update: Highway 395 reopened after Monday mudslide

 

[mspohr]

Did this supercharger get swallowed up by mud Monday?

Update: Highway 395 reopened after Monday mudslide

Looks like the mud was just down by the casino and not up by the gas station and charger.

 

[GuyHall]

Caltrans, Waze, etc show the 395 road north of topaz lake is blocked due to wildfires. However the nearby super 8 motel said to tell them you're just going to the motel and they'll let you pass.

 

[PKMAN]

Hi, anybody know if Best Western is accessible from the RV lot?

I'm thinking about staying there (instead of Topaz Lodge) but would prefer walk the inside path, rather than out on the road, especially that I'd be arriving late at night. The plan is to charge first, walk to hotel to check-in, than walk back to remove car.