I also got a pretty slow charging rate, peaking at about 63 kW. I didn't expect to hit the max theoretical charge rate since I showed up at about 30% SoC, but that's still pretty slow. It was cold (19 F), but I had driven from Copper Mountain so the battery should have been at least somewhat warm. Maybe they'll gradually ramp it up during the commissioning process.
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Supercharger - Idaho Springs, CO
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Yeah, at 72 kW, only a little higher than the charge rate I saw. That's kinda slow at that SoC. But I've seen this with other new V3 Superchargers. Hopefully they'll simply ramp it up over time.
ColoradoEV
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I don’t have a photo for this, but the highest charge rate I received was 130kw in Idaho Springs. I was able to pull 141kw from a V2 in Limon. I’m wondering if it was a mix of cold and no preconditioning that I wasn’t able to pull a higher rate of charge. The station still isn’t on the system, so the car didn’t know to get ready for it. I’m hoping that the 250kw rate is something that can happen for others.
I'm sure it will be possible in time but you need to have the right SoC, optimal battery temperature, etc.
As you mentioned, we're currently unable to precondition when driving to this destination. I tried setting the destination for Silverthorne originally but never saw a notification that it was preconditioning the battery. I changed the navigation back to just go to the Kum & Go instead. In my car, the best I could hope to get is 150 kW but I only saw 75 kW at peak since my SoC wasn't far below 50% and we only live about 18 miles away so my battery wasn't totally warmed up. Also, we hit the end of ski traffic so we were barely moving 7 miles/30 minutes before arriving in Idaho Springs. This probably didn't help with raising the battery temperature.
When going up in pretty cold weather, preconditioning for Silverthorne didn't happen until I was pretty close to the tunnel, no way it would have kicked on in Idaho Springs, but my understanding is that preconditioning is a huge part of getting very high charge rates, so in the cold with no precon, you're never going to get those amazing rates.
Woot used it skiing at winter park...was empty coming and going so guess it’s out little secret for now....got 60kW in the AM so just left after using the kum and go bathroom. Tried to trick my model 3 AWD to warm up for silverthorne but don’t think it warmed up much as I maxed at 140kW for a minute or two before dropping, did 20-95% in about 45minutes...Ate dinner at Tommyknockers which has some outstanding draft beer and burgers. So happy they got this running as it will make ski trips doable in almost any conditions!
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Lol you took a picture of my car with yours...I also only got 60kW at that time, driving in from Fort Collins, tried two different plugs with same result. Got a bit better coming down from winter park later that evening(lots of regen), 140kW max but couldn’t get batteries to pre heat for supercharging either even setting the destination to the Silverthorne charger.
GalacticHero
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The Tesla Supercharger map now shows it as live. It's not yet showing on the car map or in the charging section of the mobile app.
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It will probably show up in the app and car navigation in the coming days. It should show up as my closest Supercharger...until the one at Colorado Mills opens up!
GalacticHero
M3-AWD+
I'm ever so slightly closer to the two old chargers, but Colorado Mills will definitely take the number one spot for me too.
GalacticHero
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GalacticHero
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It does up for one of our cars now as well. Both are listed as 18 miles away but Idaho Springs is in second place. I checked on Google and it's about a quarter of a mile farther away than Lone Tree. Colorado Mills and Conifer will eventually push it down to 4th on my list.View attachment 510989 Thar she blows️
If you arrive with a preconditioned battery at a low enough SoC, you shouldn't have any problem. We weren't able to precondition since it just showed up in nav today and we live close so the batteries can't get to optional temperature before Supercharging.
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