Mrbrock
Well-Known Member
I never said they weren’t. I asked where people were going. If you don’t live and drive the roads all the time, looking at a map doesn’t make it obvious there is demand for these routes. And if you can currently make the trip without a SC, that supports teslas lack of a site in the area. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be, it’s just the way their cats driven world works. If everyone overnighted on L2 in Sandpoint on the way to Cranbrook, it would show a need for a SC to make travel there easier.Kalispell is most definitely not an I-90 site... And I 100% agree. We made the drive several times from Spokane to Cranbrook, BC last winter. We have to charge up to 100% in Coeur d' Alene to get there in the cold and arrive in Cranbrook around 10%. You really think people aren't driving to Cranbrook, Calgary, Edmonton, etc...? I do think Sandpoint would be better than Bonners though. Would also make it possible to come back to Spokane that direction from Glacier instead of to I-90. Also would really like to see SC's in Newport, Colville, and Grand Coulee. That would really open up the other routes to BC.
I was just trying to point out that comments in a vacuum don’t make sense without knowing the whole situation. Always good to support your comments like your most recent one. It is appreciated for someone new to the PNW. And it is thoughtfully laid out comments like yours that Tesla needs to see to justify these sights. Just saying we want a charger here doesn’t mean anything to them. If you just want to supercharge instead of paying to have home charging installed, that’s not enough for Tesla.Sorry to start a philosophical debate on the merits of Bonner's Ferry
My reasoning is that we often drive from CdA to Kalispell along HWY 2 and in the winter it is a stretch. You need 100% fill up in CdA and you need a LR (no SR or SR+) in order to not charge. In the summer it's not a bad stretch (assuming you have a place to charge when you get to Kalispell).
Bonner's Ferry does have a single CCS1 plug which is nice, but something with a little more confidence (Super charger) would also be nice.