SuperCharger - North Bay, ON

[NCAMIRE]

I've had great success with the Circuit Electrique chargers in eastern Quebec. If I could cross over to QC at Mattawa and avoid all the unreliable KSI chargers in ON, I'd have done so in a heartbeat on my trips to Montreal. Unfortunately, Circuit Electrique doesn't really have any chargers along their side of the Ottawa river there. I might have a FLO card somewhere, but I've always just used their app on my phone and had no problems.

Circuit Électrique now have CHAdeMO chargers on the east side of the Ottawa River north of Mattawa. There is one in Témiscaming and two in Ville-Marie on the way to New Liskeard via Notre-Dame-Du-Nord.
Their app works fine as long as you have cellular service.

 

[DaveAMoore]

were you able to check today ? thanks alot !!!

I checked at 11:00 pm on December 20, stalls aren’t lit up and it didn’t charge when plugged in.

 

[Terra Vita]

My phone is now showing north bay 6/6 stalls open on my Tesla app

 

[Terra Vita]

Can anyone close by check if its true? I'd like to make the trip this afternoon.

I think it's for real this time if Tesla says its open

 

[GarthG]

North Bay as shown in my nav system on my M3. As per above posts, it would be great if someone could confirm it is really operational.

 

[Terra Vita]

Headed there in a couple of hours. Will let you guys know

 

[Bern101]

North Bay is working! I am there now but charging at only 70kwh. Battery too cold and not empty may be?

 

[Andyman]

Excellent.

Looking at at Tesla’s supercharger map and Supercharger info website, looks like everything that was built in the last few months in Canada got turned on overnight. Across the country.

 

[GarthG]

North Bay is working! I am there now but charging at only 70kwh. Battery too cold and not empty may be?

If you are on Plugshare, log this! You might be the first non-corporate Tesla to charge there !!

 

[Terra Vita]

It works. We had our car charging at home before we left. One hour drive, the battery was pre conditioning for the last 45 mins and still maxed out at 55kWh.

We had full regen range and full power range..
Seems low since we should be able to get 170kWh started at 30% SOC

 

[Big Earl]

It works. We had our car charging at home before we left. One hour drive, the battery was pre conditioning for the last 45 mins and still maxed out at 55kWh.

We had full regen range and full power range..
Seems low since we should be able to get 170kWh started at 30% SOC

If it was still preconditioning, then it was still too cold for full speed Supercharging. Regen is only about 60 kW, so your charging speed isn't too far off. The battery pack is about 1,000 pounds. It takes a long time to heat it up from 0C or lower to 40C or more.

Also, the unit of measure is kW, not kWh. kW is charge rate (like horsepower) and kWh is energy quantity (like gallons of gas). Example: charging at 100 kW for 30 minutes will add 50 kWh of energy to the battery.

 

[cpwl]

Well this is certainly better news than we've had over the last couple of weeks going through the "it's open - it's closed" dance. But those 70 and 55 kW charging rate maxima are a little concerning. Even considering that the car that might still have been conditioning the battery, 70 kW is a suspiciously "round number" for the charging rate to settle at, especially since Terra Vita said he had full power and regen available before arriving and could get only 55 kW. I wonder if the 70 kW limit @Bern101 experienced is a Tesla pre-set maximum while the they are monitoring and proving V3 performance in cold climates.

 

[Bern101]

If you are on Plugshare, log this! You might be the first non-corporate Tesla to charge there !!

DONE!

 

[Bern101]

Well this is certainly better news than we've had over the last couple of weeks going through the "it's open - it's closed" dance. But those 70 and 55 kW charging rate maxima are a little concerning. Even considering that the car that might still have been conditioning the battery, 70 kW is a suspiciously "round number" for the charging rate to settle at, especially since Terra Vita said he had full power and regen available before arriving and could get only 55 kW. I wonder if the 70 kW limit @Bern101 experienced is a Tesla pre-set maximum while the they are monitoring and proving V3 performance in cold climates.

I saw 70KW with 1h30 of preconditioning. Full regen and full power, battery at 46% at the beginning of the charge.

 

[cpwl]

I saw 70KW with 1h30 of preconditioning. Full regen and full power, battery at 46% at the beginning of the charge.

I'd have to think that with that much pre-conditioning and full power/regen available before charging your battery was fully warmed and able to take its maximum charge rate. As a reference point what size is your battery and if you don't mind its age and mileage?

 

[Bern101]

I'd have to think that with that much pre-conditioning and full power/regen available before charging your battery was fully warmed and able to take its maximum charge rate. As a reference point what size is your battery and if you don't mind its age and mileage?

2019 LR RWD 23 000km bought in August 2019.

 

[cpwl]

I'd have to think that with that much pre-conditioning and full power/regen available before charging your battery was fully warmed and able to take its maximum charge rate. As a reference point what size is your battery and if you don't mind its age and mileage?

Large new battery.... That makes your 70 kW maximum power sound sound more and more like a station power limit rather than than one inherent to the car. It will be interesting if other people post their charging experience at the North Bay SC (and others of the newly opened TCH SCs) and are experiencing relatively low maximum charging power rates.

 

[King of Urns]

I stopped at the Baldwin charger this afternoon. I was getting about 100 kW into my SR+, starting at about 25% SOC. I have the 2019.40.2.1 update which means I should be able to see a max of 170 kW depending on SOC and temp. 100 kW doesn't seem completely out of line, though I was pretty well warmed up and thought I might have seen a bit more.

 

[Terra Vita]

I think big earl is right with the battery temp. While I was there in north bay a Dual Motor Model 3 was charging at 105kW..

 

[Big Earl]

I think big earl is right with the battery temp. While I was there in north bay a Dual Motor Model 3 was charging at 105kW..

I spent quite a bit of time in Michigan last winter during the polar vortex and it takes quite a lot to get the battery warm enough for full speed charging. We often didn't get the full speed of 120 kW (at the time) until our second charging stop of the day. That was before preconditioning, so it will be better now, but the battery really needs to be very warm to get 150+ kW.