Supercharger - Thunder Bay, ON

[ctrystruha]

Still active today, only able to pull about 20kW though. Another Tesla owner in our local group reported 71kW yesterday but the transformers don’t sound like they’re having a good time in this cold.

 

[DMC5180]

Still active today, only able to pull about 20kW though. Another Tesla owner in our local group reported 71kW yesterday but the transformers don’t sound like they’re having a good time in this cold.

@MarcoRP

 

[AlbertaNetZero]

Twitter video report from Tesla owner charging in Thunder Bay:
Zee @ Road Trip Tesla on Twitter

 

[Andyman]

Charging a cold soaked model S here in Thunder Bay along with someone’s seemingly abandoned P85. No tire tracks around that car since the last snowfall which hopefully isn’t a sign of the charging speed I can expect around here.

 

[ctrystruha]

Looks like the same Model S is still here form the last post. I hope they aren’t being charged any idle fees (probably flew out from the airport and has unlimited SC’s)

Still only getting around 20kW with a fairly preconditioned battery - disappointing for V3.

 

[Andyman]

I’m pretty sure Thunder Bay supercharger is not operating at full throttle. Despite my cold battery when I was there, it should have eventually gotten more than the 30 kW max I saw.

Also, throughout my trip around the Great Lakes, on the Canadian side, a small steel shovel would have been handy to have to chip away the icy snow banks the ploughs left behind in front of the chargers. A common theme with all the locations I visited except Wawa which was cleared away nicely. In Thunder Bay, the middle two chargers simply had too much snow in front of them to be able to access them. See 2nd photo above.

 

[MD-2000]

When someone is too lazy to ICE the chargers and leaves a shopping cart instead...

 

[wayner]

Also, throughout my trip around the Great Lakes, on the Canadian side, a small steel shovel would have been handy to have to chip away the icy snow banks the ploughs left behind in front of the chargers. A common theme with all the locations I visited except Wawa which was cleared away nicely. In Thunder Bay, the middle two chargers simply had too much snow in front of them to be able to access them. See 2nd photo above.

Tesla needs to educate the snow plow services that it hires for these locations. I had this problem at Woodstock five years ago.