Half Dollar Bill
Traveller, teacher, poet, accountant, innkeeper
"Mommy, why aren't we driving? We could visit another one or two chargers before I feel sleepy."
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PhillyGal
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Wow, lots of activity this week! Several of us folks that are around the same ballpark of total.
I went on a little road trip this long weekend and nailed a few more here in upper Midwest.
10/17/2019
Altoona, IA
Coralville, IA
10/19/2019
Davenport, IA
Dubuque, IA
La Crosse, WI
10/17/2019
Altoona, IA
Coralville, IA
10/19/2019
Davenport, IA
Dubuque, IA
La Crosse, WI
E-GAL
Member
Oops. This was our first time at Tooele. In 2017 we must have gone from SLC to West Wendover.
Randy Spencer
Active Member
In response to those who want us to post here AND the SS, I'll update since this last post:OK, so I visited the newly opened V3 Tesla Factory Charger.
2019 SoCal road trip:
Anaheim, CA - Santa Ana Canyon Road 10/7/2019 2:40PM $0.31
Corona, CA 10/7/2019 2:02PM $0.93
San Diego, CA - Del Mar Heights Road 10/7/2019 11:13AM $8.96
Rancho Mirage, CA 10/6/2019 2:09PM $0.56
Palm Springs, CA 10/6/2019 1:31PM $0.31
Fontana, CA 10/6/2019 12:42AM $0.62
Malibu, CA - Whole Foods and the Park 10/5/2019 11:03PM $6.08
Ojai, CA 10/5/2019 9:39PM $6.51
Milpitas, CA - Great Mall 10/5/2019 3:34PM $11.16
Newark, CA 10/5/2019 3:13PM $0.31
Going to Gigafactory to buy Snow Tires cheap:
Chico, CA 10/2/2019 7:50PM $8.99
Truckee, CA - Brockway Road 10/2/2019 5:28PM $3.36
Incline Village, NV 10/2/2019 2:47PM $3.19
Placerville, CA 10/2/2019 12:35PM $10.54
Local:
Richmond, CA - Meeker Avenue 9/17/2019 12:59PM $0.31
Almost local:
Watsonville, CA 7/25/2019 1:52PM $12.22
Not what I would call local:
Big Sur, CA - Ventana 6/4/2019 11:22AM $7.80
Local road trip:
Fairfield, CA - Holiday Lane 5/10/2019 2:33PM $0.84
Rohnert Park, CA 5/10/2019 1:00PM $1.86
VERY local:
Pleasanton, CA 5/1/2019 1:17PM $1.55
Local enough to not be a road trip
Antioch, CA 4/21/2019 10:32PM $0.62
San Ramon, CA - Diablo Plaza 4/21/2019 1:51PM $0.31
Road trip thru Yosemite:
Groveland, CA 3/21/2019 4:46PM $7.00
Fish Camp, CA 3/21/2019 2:25PM $6.16
Leaving Laytonville for the next trip to WA, but the coast is clear to Canada still.
I tried for Ensenada but my insurance didn't cover me and the wife balked.
It would have taken care of the entire western half of the country in one trip...
PhillyGal
Member
Today’s haul is small:
Milford, CT - North
Milford, CT - South
Hit our only repeat of the entire trip today too (East Greenwich, RI). Taking it easy with a lovely lunch in Mystic, CT and dinner in Newport, RI. Oh and we had to make a huge sacrifice and drive around aimlessly looking at mansions on Ocean Ave so the tiny human could get a nap in. The things we do...
As a person who almost exclusively drives in city traffic and weekdays I’m glad I was behind the wheel for almost all of today.
Milford, CT - North
Milford, CT - South
Hit our only repeat of the entire trip today too (East Greenwich, RI). Taking it easy with a lovely lunch in Mystic, CT and dinner in Newport, RI. Oh and we had to make a huge sacrifice and drive around aimlessly looking at mansions on Ocean Ave so the tiny human could get a nap in. The things we do...
As a person who almost exclusively drives in city traffic and weekdays I’m glad I was behind the wheel for almost all of today.
Big Earl
bnkwupt
Fond memories of Mystic Pizza on a family road trip when I was growing up.
bmah
Moderator, Model S/X, California Forums
Nice Sunday for a drive.
84. Watsonville, CA
Spreadsheet updated.
Bruce.
84. Watsonville, CA
Spreadsheet updated.
Bruce.
cpa
Active Member
Sometimes living in the West with its paucity of toll roads is a good thing! (However, a few have crept into play over the past twenty years, but the rates are much cheaper than those listed. And we now have "toll lanes" on selected freeways with variable pricing depending upon time of day. But an 18-mile drive down the Harbor Freeway from downtown LA at rush hour is still just a couple of bucks.)
Maybe the guy wearing the ELEVATOR FAN t-shirt simply told them that he is on a quest to ride every elevator in the world.
PhillyGal
Member
Oh I'm super well aware and the husband is... less than enthused. We always take turns on road trips but since that rule got clarified I got fanatical about it.
GHammer
What a long strange trip its been.
Seattle-Union St.
I know this is a limited hour garage but really, 10am on Sunday? I thought I would catch it early this morning before heading to the Seahawk game, but NOO, had to wait for the gate to open.
I know this is a limited hour garage but really, 10am on Sunday? I thought I would catch it early this morning before heading to the Seahawk game, but NOO, had to wait for the gate to open.
It wasn’t open then? What are the Sunday hours? (Probably better to post all this in the thread for this supercharger)
JSergeant
Supporting Member
This is a bit OT for this thread, but since all the people I respect post here, I figured I'd post it here. It ends with both a comment and a question.
Yesterday we did a day trip up to the Catskill area to do the Hudson Valley Pottery Tour.
Hudson Valley Pottery Tour
To minimize charging time on the trip, I set the charging at home yesterday morning to 100% and topped up before we left. We stopped at the Kingston Supercharger for about 15 minutes to top up what I hoped was enough for the rest of the trip and to make it back home. When we plugged in I got the message about this being a busy Supercharger and the max charge was being set back to 80%, which was fine (the first time I've experienced this message). I looked at the charging screen and saw that the max charge had indeed been set to 80%
We continued on the tour, stopping for lunch at Bread Alone in Boiceville. [On a side note, I noticed when we came back out from lunch that there were a couple of EV Connect chargers in the parking lot which I could have charged at while we were eating lunch, which as you'll see, would have been worthwhile.] Once we'd toured the last pottery, I set home as the destination, but found I didn't have enough charge to make it home, so we had to stop in Newburgh for 15 minutes to top up (where I again got the message about this being a busy Supercharger, and charging limited to 80%), and then headed home.
I plugged in when I got home. When I checked the charge status this morning, I found that I had charged to 100%. I had just assumed that when the max was set to 80% at the Supercharger that that 80% setting would stay there. Apparently not. I'm certain that I didn't manually set the charging back to 100%. So is that correct - that the 80% setting is only temporary while you are at the Supercharger and then it reverts back to whereever you had it set? If so, I wanted to be sure that others are aware of this.
I guess I'll have to head down to Toms River this morning to burn off that extra charge!
Yesterday we did a day trip up to the Catskill area to do the Hudson Valley Pottery Tour.
Hudson Valley Pottery Tour
To minimize charging time on the trip, I set the charging at home yesterday morning to 100% and topped up before we left. We stopped at the Kingston Supercharger for about 15 minutes to top up what I hoped was enough for the rest of the trip and to make it back home. When we plugged in I got the message about this being a busy Supercharger and the max charge was being set back to 80%, which was fine (the first time I've experienced this message). I looked at the charging screen and saw that the max charge had indeed been set to 80%
We continued on the tour, stopping for lunch at Bread Alone in Boiceville. [On a side note, I noticed when we came back out from lunch that there were a couple of EV Connect chargers in the parking lot which I could have charged at while we were eating lunch, which as you'll see, would have been worthwhile.] Once we'd toured the last pottery, I set home as the destination, but found I didn't have enough charge to make it home, so we had to stop in Newburgh for 15 minutes to top up (where I again got the message about this being a busy Supercharger, and charging limited to 80%), and then headed home.
I plugged in when I got home. When I checked the charge status this morning, I found that I had charged to 100%. I had just assumed that when the max was set to 80% at the Supercharger that that 80% setting would stay there. Apparently not. I'm certain that I didn't manually set the charging back to 100%. So is that correct - that the 80% setting is only temporary while you are at the Supercharger and then it reverts back to whereever you had it set? If so, I wanted to be sure that others are aware of this.
I guess I'll have to head down to Toms River this morning to burn off that extra charge!
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Big Earl
bnkwupt
Correct. The 80% limit is only temporary and should return to your previously set limit the next time you charge... the operative word being should... it's worth double-checking to make sure. At high usage stations where your limit is automatically set to 80%, you can always override it if you need more energy to make it to your destination.
Half Dollar Bill
Traveller, teacher, poet, accountant, innkeeper
Bighorn
Top Supercharger
Re: Seattle Union St, I was unable to avoid a $6 charge despite a 10 minute charge. I self parked at night, but it sure looks like they want you to valet only.
@JSergeant The 80% limit temporarily reprograms your upper limit, but is easily overridden. If circumstances were reasonable to do so, I would have upped the charge limit to what you needed, which would have eliminated both of your issues—insufficient charge and unintended overcharging.
@JSergeant The 80% limit temporarily reprograms your upper limit, but is easily overridden. If circumstances were reasonable to do so, I would have upped the charge limit to what you needed, which would have eliminated both of your issues—insufficient charge and unintended overcharging.
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