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This is a friendly contest for Tesla owners to track the number of unique public Superchargers where they have charged

- "Supercharger count" is the number of unique public Superchargers where you have charged (just being there does not count), whether or not you were the person plugging in the vehicle (such as a Valet Parking garage or a Passenger) and whether or not it was your own personal vehicle (such as a rental, a loaner, or a friend's Tesla) as long as you were the one who drove >50% of the distance to reach the charger(s).
- The list of chargers in the supercharging.life database are the ones included in the game. If you think one should be added or removed from the list, let us know.
- Only chargers available to the public without special permission are included in the game.
- Chargers not connected to the grid are not counted.
- Doublet locations like the North/South Supercharger 'pairs' in CT, ME, NH, etc. count as individual locations.
- More than 1 charger at the same address, such as Lenox Square Mall (Atlanta, GA) or Montgomery Mall (Bethesda, MD) count as individual locations when they appear as a separate location on the Tesla Nav screen.
- Inactive competitors will be archived and removed from the leaderboard. Just post an update to be reactivated.

See Supercharging.Life database for info on how to post your own visits to the database (preferred), or post your locations with date visited to this thread and one of the admins will update your list for you. All visits must be posted to this thread - not just entered in supercharging.life. If you are the first in the game to visit a supercharger location, please post to the thread as soon as you can so others know it has been visited.

 

[evp]

I got in a quick trip to Texas last week - birthday party in Austin, down to Boca Chica for some rocket photography, back north thru Dallas to visit a friend and hang out at the State Fair. 3,000 miles (busting thru 100K on the odometer in 4 years), two first charges, 34 new (but not enough to catch up with tes-s).

 

[tharasix]

Someone I was showing this picture to noticed that the center core was running at reduced thrust. I didn't notice that the flame was shorter when watching the launch.

Yeah, they run the side boosters hotter so they can shed that weight at a point that they still have some fuel left in the center core to continue to fly for a significant amount of time.

 

[GHammer]

...after reading everyone's troubles I was wondering if I should even go on this trip.

Day 11, the road trip hex finally caught up with me. For the first time in my life, I experienced Double Sudden Unexpected Rapid Tire De-inflation caused by severe pavement surface deformation. This occurred right after the concert on Sunday night and we waited 5 hours for a tow, got back to the hotel room at 5am. We had the car dropped at the Arlington VA service center and they had to replace all four tires and had the car ready at 4pm. Kudos to the service center for fitting me in, they were slammed and this is a pretty small SvcC. Today's count (which was going to be my highest of the trip) was severely impacted. Tomorrows will be impacted as well.

Check-ins for 2022-10-10
- Gettysburg, PA (#1119)
- Harrisburg, PA (#1120)
- Hamburg, PA (#1121)
- Allentown - Schantz Rd, PA (#1122)
- Allentown, PA (#1123)

 

[Limited]

Check-ins for 2022-10-10
- Brea - Madrona Ave, CA (#419) (First to check-in)

 

[Bighorn]

Day 11, the road trip hex finally caught up with me. For the first time in my life, I experienced Double Sudden Unexpected Rapid Tire De-inflation caused by severe pavement surface deformation. This occurred right after the concert on Sunday night and we waited 5 hours for a tow, got back to the hotel room at 5am. We had the car dropped at the Arlington VA service center and they had to replace all four tires and had the car ready at 4pm. Kudos to the service center for fitting me in, they were slammed and this is a pretty small SvcC. Today's count (which was going to be my highest of the trip) was severely impacted. Tomorrows will be impacted as well.

Check-ins for 2022-10-10
- Gettysburg, PA (#1119)
- Harrisburg, PA (#1120)
- Hamburg, PA (#1121)
- Allentown - Schantz Rd, PA (#1122)
- Allentown, PA (#1123)

Been there. Any sense that lower pressures from the colder temps could have been contributory?
Just saw there’s a new Energy screen in the works that gets into the nitty gritty of efficiency down to the impact of an under inflated tire!

 

[GHammer]

Been there. Any sense that lower pressures from the colder temps could have been contributory?
Just saw there’s a new Energy screen in the works that gets into the nitty gritty of efficiency down to the impact of an under inflated tire!

No, I'm pretty diligent about monitoring my tire pressures and I also run a few PSI above spec and it hasn't been that cold here. Nights are cool but it's been 70's and sunny in the daytime and we were parked in a very warm underground garage. Probably more to do with running 19's right now and the fact that whatever I hit (I never actually saw it) was brutal almost like an open manhole or storm drain without the grate, I actually surprised the rims survived.

 

[GHammer]

Made our way to our next stop for a couple days and was greeted by @Half Dollar Bill at the beautiful James Place Inn in Freeport ME. Pleasant drive across the Tappen Zee Bridge (oh, sorry Mario M. Cuomo Bridge) and up I95 with little traffic until Boston.

Check-ins for 2022-10-11
- Easton, PA (#1124)
- Tannersville, PA (#1125)
- Bartonsville, PA (#1126)
- Columbia, NJ (#1127)
- Rockaway, NJ (#1128)
- Boonton, NJ (#1129)
- West Nyack, NY (#1130)
- Tarrytown, NY (#1131)
- Darien - Northbound, CT (#1132)
- Fairfield - Northbound, CT (#1133)
- Milford - Boston Post Rd, CT (#1134)
- Milford - Northbound, CT (#1135)
- Madison - Northbound, CT (#1136)
- New London, CT (#1137)
- Mystic, CT (#1138)
- Richmond, RI (#1139)
- East Greenwich, RI (#1140)
- Mansfield, MA (#1141)
- Dedham (SC), MA (#1142)
- Lexington (NB), MA (#1143)
- Burlington, MA (#1144)
- Woburn, MA (#1145)
- Lynnfield, MA (#1146)
- Seabrook, NH (#1147)
- Kennebunk - Northbound, ME (#1148)

 

[vanjwilson]

Rented a Tesla Model 3 from Hertz in Miami, so my wife and I can drive down the Keys for our 25th anniversary. (She wants to see them before the seas rise anymore.)

I made a deal with her: I would only stop at superchargers within a mile of whatever route we were going anyway. So, a light day for me on the way down to Islamorada.

Check-ins for 2022-10-11
- Miami - SW 24th Street, FL (#202)
- Cutler Bay, FL (#203)
- Florida City, FL (#204)

Serendipitous find a short drive from the Miami - SW 24th Street supercharger. We ate lunch at El Mago De Las Fritas, where the burgers as well as the plantains are fried.

 

[Darren S]

@theflyer
Just heard tell of another battery replacement on a cross country trip. In this case an 85 was reduced to a 70. What did you get? I think I gained 28 miles with my refurbed 85 on my transcontinental transplant.

My 90D is reduced to about a 60D-65D at this point yet Tesla Service still insists it is "performing as intended." Max range originally was 296 miles but is now barely 240 (sometimes 237 and sometimes 242). If an 85 to 70 had a battery replaced then why can't my 90 to a 65 have one replaced? Heck, I'll take an 85D battery at this point.

My last road trip had way WAY too many arrivals of <2 miles remaining all while driving at or 5 mph under the speed limit for the entire 220-240 miles.

At one point, I drove 259.5 miles on 239 miles of range (max) and used 63.5 kWh and had 6 miles of range remaining (so ~65 kWh for max usage and 265 miles). Those 259.5 miles took me 5.75 hrs or 45 mph avg speed (and I didn't go above 55 mph for the whole trip from from Duluth, MN to Marquette, MI in the middle of the night).

 

[Bighorn]

My 90D is reduced to about a 60D-65D at this point yet Tesla Service still insists it is "performing as intended." Max range originally was 296 miles but is now barely 240 (sometimes 237 and sometimes 242). If an 85 to 70 had a battery replaced then why can't my 90 to a 65 have one replaced? Heck, I'll take an 85D battery at this point.

My last road trip had way WAY too many arrivals of <2 miles remaining all while driving at or 5 mph under the speed limit for the entire 220-240 miles.

At one point, I drove 259.5 miles on 239 miles of range (max) and used 63.5 kWh and had 6 miles of range remaining (so ~65 kWh for max usage and 265 miles). Those 259.5 miles took me 5.75 hrs or 45 mph avg speed (and I didn't go above 55 mph for the whole trip from from Duluth, MN to Marquette, MI in the middle of the night).

The pack they replaced the original 85 kWh battery with was a 70 kWh downgrade. Not aware of the failure that prompted the transplant. I’ve not heard of any degradation based replacements. It wasn’t until the Model 3 that they codified a 70% guarantee.

 

[PLUS EV]

My last road trip had way WAY too many arrivals of <2 miles remaining all while driving at or 5 mph under the speed limit for the entire 220-240 miles.

At one point, I drove 259.5 miles on 239 miles of range (max) and used 63.5 kWh and had 6 miles of range remaining

I'm jealous that you can drive down to 2 and 6 miles remaining! My car shuts down before then :-(

 

[theflyer]

My 90D is reduced to about a 60D-65D at this point yet Tesla Service still insists it is "performing as intended." Max range originally was 296 miles but is now barely 240 (sometimes 237 and sometimes 242). If an 85 to 70 had a battery replaced then why can't my 90 to a 65 have one replaced? Heck, I'll take an 85D battery at this point.

My last road trip had way WAY too many arrivals of <2 miles remaining all while driving at or 5 mph under the speed limit for the entire 220-240 miles.

At one point, I drove 259.5 miles on 239 miles of range (max) and used 63.5 kWh and had 6 miles of range remaining (so ~65 kWh for max usage and 265 miles). Those 259.5 miles took me 5.75 hrs or 45 mph avg speed (and I didn't go above 55 mph for the whole trip from from Duluth, MN to Marquette, MI in the middle of the night).

I would be very hesitant to drive that low at the age of your battery.

 

[Darren S]

I'm jealous that you can drive down to 2 and 6 miles remaining! My car shuts down before then :-(

Well I would certainly prefer NOT to have to drive it down to that much remaining but those were the situations. From Duluth to Marquette there are no L2 chargers although I was tempted to top-up at a Casino that claimed it had a 240v outlet but it had no entries in PlugShare. Also, PlugShare was not allowing me to contact any Home owners or other listings with a Tesla or J-plug charger and their email and/or phone number wasn't listed so I couldn't contact anyone ahead of time and didn't want to just drop in at 10:30 PM. I think there was a Hospital that noted it had a J-plug or 240v outlet but by that point of the trip I think I had already settled in to just going 5 mph under the posted limit and see if I could make it (which I did and that was the 260 miles on 240 miles of range).

Anymore, I just use the trip meter of "kWh used since last charge" and if I charge to 100% then this is easy and anything beyond 65.0 kWh used means it's a Flintstone car and even 62-63 kWh used is down to single digits of range left. It's trickier when I only charge to 90% and then get to guess if that is a true calculation of 63.0*0.9=56.7 kWh or is it 65.0*0.9=58.5 kWh? That particular excursion was a 3-leg adventure (to the tri-point of WY-MT-SD) and I can't do Waypoints on my Nav so it took some on-the-fly planning to make it work. I had only charged to 90% (between 56.7 and 58.5 kWh as an estimate) as I thought that would be enough and ended up driving 175 miles using 58.0 kWh and arrived with 0 miles remaining (probably 1/2 mile beyond 0 miles). So that tells me that 90% is 58.0 kWh or 64.4 kWh max usable.

Any idea what your kWh used is from 100% down to, say, 20% or whatever your comfort level is before charging? I only have 175k on my 2016 S90D and you are well over that I believe. I should reconnect my OBD-II datalogger again so I can track this precisely instead of having to guess and go 10 mph under the speed limit for an hour when I might have enough range to keep with traffic but it is rare for me to take a trip and 'have' to stretch the limits of charging to 100% and driving the full range of that charge but North Platte to Murdo (209 miles) and then Spearfish to Dickinson (205 miles) had zero-point-zero destinations along their leg so it was a must-make situation on only 240 miles of range.

 

[Darren S]

I would be very hesitant to drive that low at the age of your battery.

Agreed, but again, it's not the miles of range remaining ... I'm driving it based on the number of kWh used since the previous charge (easiest when charging to 100%) but tested a few calculations and determined that 64 kWh is a good "max available" from my battery now. Once I knew the distance to cover, say 208 miles, and knew my max kWh available (say 64 kWh) then I knew what I needed to average to make it work (64,000 Wh ÷ 208 mi = 307 Wh/mi) and if I average below that then I should be able to make it (and that leg to Dickinson was 299 Wh/mi avg and I made it with 2 miles remaining after using 62.1 kWh.

Again, I'd prefer not to but the alternative route from Spearfish to Dickinson was up to Miles City and Glendive which was ~6.0 hrs instead of 3.5 hrs and I could have even slowed down if necessary and taken 4.0 hrs to make it but still would have been ahead of someone else going the long way. I think North Platte to Wall (which was a new one for me) is much worse as you'd have to go out to Cheyenne and up to Spearfish and back but 210+ miles of no superchargers and no L2 chargers is rare for me to find but it's good to know what the limit is of my car.

 

[PLUS EV]

Once I knew the distance to cover, say 208 miles, and knew my max kWh available (say 64 kWh) then I knew what I needed to average to make it work (64,000 Wh ÷ 208 mi = 307 Wh/mi) and if I average below that then I should be able to make it (and that leg to Dickinson was 299 Wh/mi avg and I made it with 2 miles remaining after using 62.1 kWh.

This is an interesting strategy but I wouldn't recommend it anywhere in the Mountain Time Zone (and some places in the Pacific Time Zone). You need the grade and weather to be relatively constant for this methodology to be reliable.

 

[tharasix]

Check-ins for 2022-10-12
- Monticello, MN (#128)

 

[GHammer]

Did a loop today in New Hampshire from Freeport ME including the Kancamagus National Scenic Byway (aka The Kanc).

Check-ins for 2022-10-12
- North Conway, NH (#1149)
- Lincoln, NH (#1150)
- Ashland, NH (#1151)
- Meredith, NH (#1152)
- Tilton, NH (#1153)
- Concord, NH (#1154)
- Hooksett (north), NH (#1155)
- Hooksett (south), NH (#1156)
- Rochester, NH (#1157)
- Portland, ME (#1158)
- Freeport, ME (#1159)

 

[vanjwilson]

Got the Keys superchargers on the way to Key West today.

Check-ins for 2022-10-12
- Marathon, FL (#205)
- Big Pine Key, FL (#206) (Comment: A deer was walking through the Tesla spots)

We rented a kayak at Curry Hammock State Park and did a loop around the little island that included a "mangrove tunnel". Highly recommend.

Saw a deer wandering through the spots of the Big Pine Key supercharger. My wife was just able to get a picture before it ran away.

 

[Darren S]

This is an interesting strategy but I wouldn't recommend it anywhere in the Mountain Time Zone (and some places in the Pacific Time Zone). You need the grade and weather to be relatively constant for this methodology to be reliable.

Hey, I don't want to give away ALL the secrets of proper hypermiling, @PLUS EV. There are too many factors to list everything but that's definitely part of it. HVAC off. Lower speed when climbing a hill or long grade and then coasting if needed or perhaps a higher speed than posted if still getting regen. Weather was dry and cool for my drive and elevation was more or less level with some gradual climbs and descents across the Sand Hills of NE and then western SD. I typically do a quick route check and then pick the Bicycle icon as that shows the elevation graph. Wind is always a factor through the Midwest. Driving at 5 mph under for the first 1 to 2 hrs is my standard method when I know it might be close and making sure I have >50% charge remaining when I'm at 50% of the distance traveled and then finally speed up TO the speed limit for another 1 or 2 hrs and if arrival SOC is >10% then possibly going 5 mph over the speed limit. Again, it's not often that I have to eek out every possible mile of range but those two south-north drives across the Midwest were a good test of driving patience.

 

[Bighorn]

Today’s appointment to replace the HV pack and 12V on the Model 3 has been deferred another 3 weeks, waiting on parts. I need some @theflyer juju on that battery pack