No way they'd be going to the hassle (not to mention imposing upon themselves and their customers the parking nightmares involved with trying to position any given car's charging port within reach of the Supercharger dispenser's "length" of cable) if there weren't gobs of government money on the line; a single kiosk per location would meet the requirements (but staffing a 24/7 call center?
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Completely agree.No way they'd be going to the hassle (not to mention imposing upon themselves and their customers the parking nightmares involved with trying to position any given car's charging port within reach of the Supercharger dispenser's "length" of cable) if there weren't gobs of government money on the line; a single kiosk per location would meet the requirements (but staffing a 24/7 call center?
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Wonder how hard it's gonna be to retrofit these to already existing stations... my sister drives an ID.4, and would love for the superchargers in Montana to open up - would make her runs to there from Washington a lot easier.Welp - I wasn't too far off in my CCS assumptions.
Tesla installs and tests first Magic Dock on Supercharger in New York ahead of opening network to other EVs [UPDATE]
The first Magic Dock has been spotted installed at a Tesla Supercharger in New York. The Magic Dock includes an integrated CCS adapter that will allow other electric vehicles (EVs) to use the Supercharger network. […]
Considering Tesla just retrofitted an entire site in a day, I’d say this isn’t going to be that difficult to roll out.
“To get around this Tesla came up with the Magic Dock, a device which can be easily retrofitted to existing Superchargers.”
Doesn’t look like Tesla will be retrofitting V2 supercharger sites. So the only Montana sites that will get magic dock are Great Falls, Helena, Glendive, and Miles City. None in Western Montana at this time sadly.
From a psuedo-selfish perspective, that's okay, as Helena is my sister's end destination for her runs into Montana anyway. If that one were to be retrofitted, between it and the EA charger in Missoula, she would be more than set.
Honestly, with the EA in Missoula, Butte, Billings and soon to be Bozeman. I-90 is pretty well covered. Great Falls has an EA going in but its live date is majority TBD and Helena seems to be one of the last places to get love. The Helena supercharger also doesn’t get much traffic. So it’s an excellent spot to get the magic dock.
I wonder if maybe the V2 cabinets do not have the signaling circuitry capacity for releasing the dock. The cabinet internals are quite different since the V3 circuitry is different than V2.
Yeah, definitely some other factors in play here. Also, V2 isn’t eligible for any federal or state money due to sharing so there’s no need to make them compatible.
If they are waiting for a meter and transformer, those usually don’t have separate permits and are handled through the utility so you’d have to contact them for a timeline.
