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I have same problem not going over 30kwh. I have the car for 7 yrs. And charge the car all the way to Calgary no problem. By the way how you do SOC% or warm the battery. I thought the car does automatically as you're close to the supercharger.

SOC is how full your battery is.

How warm your battery is will be shown only in the power display as dotted yellow lines showing on the bottom side (green side) of the power curve. When you have limited regen, is when you'll also experience slower charging speeds.

If you preheat your car, particularly using the window defroster option, the car will also precondition the battery so that its nice and toasty before you hit the road!
 
Just tried the supercharger today and was pretty disappointed. Fully heated battery and not in a shared stall...SoC was 15%, started off promising going up to 103KW then sudden drop to 67, didn't seem right, unplugged and plugged back in. Shot up to 100kw then quickly slowing down to 75-85 KW even with a slow SoC
 
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P = √3 x 193 x 480 = 160kVA,

This is actually the very basics of 3-phase system power systems. The total power formula is P = √3 × pf × I × V. Where pf is the power factor, I is the current, V is the voltage and P is the power. Let's say pf=1, then P = √3 x 193 x 480 = 160kVA. You can't simply use 3VI to calculate power. You can imagine Tesla did the calculation and size each transformer right to supply 1 V2 supercharging cabinet which can deliver up to 150kW.

You can also see from the winding diagram that it is in the form of autotransformer, as the voltage transforming is done with 1 winding rather than 2. Delta and Wye connection is another topic then.



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The Tesla site is showing a second supercharger in Richmond for Q4 2021 at Buswell & Cook.
Clearly, it will be 50m from the other charger ah yes 🤣

That is just a rough place marker for the city Richmond, not where the charger will actually be.

I suspect maybe another charger will be in North Richmond, (close to hwy99) and later in Q4 2022+ another charger in South Richmond by Steveson.

Only time can tell!
 
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I should add: wherever additional Richmond location(s) land, it will be a good thing. I've never needed the existing Richmond Centre SC, but every time I've driven by it's been packed to the proverbial gills.

When I visit family in Vancouver I can't charge at home because their knob and tube wiring isn't grounded. Charger just gives me a fault.
So I'm forced to use other chargers. Thought I could just go to the Richmond SC. Not!
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Both malls have Canadian tires so maybe haha.

And both close to hwy 99! And have some good food options! 😋

@Vancity-Tes1a both have Save-on Foods, Starbucks, Tims(? Southpoint for sure and I think Ironwood does too). Both also have large parking lots that I've never seen at capacity, so just carve out a section in the middle somewhere in the lesser used spaces and wire it up! :)
 
I think Ironwood Mall or the Michael's/Tim's/Golf Town lot would be most logical places to put one in.

@Funkmobile oh yeah, at Bridgeport & the 99, just south of Costco and the casino. Yes that would also be a very good candidate location. The Ironwood parking lot is bigger and closer to the US border and has more/better amenities nearby, but the Bridgeport location is closer to downtown and even quicker on/off Highway 99. Either are very good choices.