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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.

 

[cpa]

Don't forget that if you use nav as intended, it takes into account all known vehicles traveling the same route and time and will distribute stops to balance load as much as possible and I'm confident Tesla will continue to offer incentives to shift travel times to also help balance load. And, of course, they will keep adding more stalls and locations. I vastly prefer this scenario to the other option.

How does Tesla know where I am going, and where I will be stopping, when I arrive, and for how long I will be stopping? There might be a soupçon of veracity to Tesla's omniscience along certain rural interstates like 80 across Wyoming and Nebraska or 94 in North Dakota.

This is how I use the navigation. I may be among the 2% that don't use it appropriately, dunno. I am at location A. I know from looking at the touchscreen or Plugshare, or memory that the next stop will be location B or location C, depending upon variables that I am not certain of at that particular moment. A good example for me out here in California are the Superchargers along Interstate 80: I will ignore the urban charger at the Arden Fair Mall NE of downtown Sac.
--Roseville has two
--Rocklin has one at the service center
--Loomis has one
--Auburn has one

The distance from Roseville to Auburn is about 18 miles, slightly uphill.

There are three in Truckee: The original off Donner Pass Road, the second one off Brockway at the Best Western Motel, and the newest a short hop away at the airport.

Then there is a SC in downtown Reno, just off I-80.

With so many choices, I don't know when I finish charging in Manteca at the Target where I will stop until I am well outside Sac and on my way east. All I know is that I have enough juice to reach any of the five SC listed above. So, I remain flexible. Then, when I leave the foothills to continue upon my way, I may decide that upon summiting Donner Pass, I have enough juice to reach Reno instead of stopping in Truckee. To the contrary, I may have decided to leave the foothills with enough charge to reach Reno, but will have to stop in Truckee to be safe as I used more that I thought heading uphill. And, I might want to stop at the Brockway SC as there is a brewpub/restaurant across the parking lot, and perhaps I can charge long enough while grabbing a bite and a beer to skip Reno and reach Lovelock or Winnemucca.

I simply dial in my next expected SC into the navigation system and leave when I feel comfortable that I have enough reserve to reach my next stop.

Finally, in the warmer months, I keep the navigation off. There is no need to preheat the battery. Most SC I have been to at least once before, and I know how to drive there. For new installations, I will likely just turn the navigation on once I am within ten miles or so.

 

[BM3B]

How does Tesla know where I am going, and where I will be stopping, when I arrive, and for how long I will be stopping? There might be a soupçon of veracity to Tesla's omniscience along certain rural interstates like 80 across Wyoming and Nebraska or 94 in North Dakota.

This is how I use the navigation. I may be among the 2% that don't use it appropriately, dunno. I am at location A. I know from looking at the touchscreen or Plugshare, or memory that the next stop will be location B or location C, depending upon variables that I am not certain of at that particular moment. A good example for me out here in California are the Superchargers along Interstate 80: I will ignore the urban charger at the Arden Fair Mall NE of downtown Sac.
--Roseville has two
--Rocklin has one at the service center
--Loomis has one
--Auburn has one

The distance from Roseville to Auburn is about 18 miles, slightly uphill.

There are three in Truckee: The original off Donner Pass Road, the second one off Brockway at the Best Western Motel, and the newest a short hop away at the airport.

Then there is a SC in downtown Reno, just off I-80.

With so many choices, I don't know when I finish charging in Manteca at the Target where I will stop until I am well outside Sac and on my way east. All I know is that I have enough juice to reach any of the five SC listed above. So, I remain flexible. Then, when I leave the foothills to continue upon my way, I may decide that upon summiting Donner Pass, I have enough juice to reach Reno instead of stopping in Truckee. To the contrary, I may have decided to leave the foothills with enough charge to reach Reno, but will have to stop in Truckee to be safe as I used more that I thought heading uphill. And, I might want to stop at the Brockway SC as there is a brewpub/restaurant across the parking lot, and perhaps I can charge long enough while grabbing a bite and a beer to skip Reno and reach Lovelock or Winnemucca.

I simply dial in my next expected SC into the navigation system and leave when I feel comfortable that I have enough reserve to reach my next stop.

Finally, in the warmer months, I keep the navigation off. There is no need to preheat the battery. Most SC I have been to at least once before, and I know how to drive there. For new installations, I will likely just turn the navigation on once I am within ten miles or so.

I use Waypoints to put my entire journey in including planned supercharging stops. It's awesome to see the total trip time including charging as well as intermediate waypoint stopping times. This gives Tesla a lot of data, I am not sure if they use it for balancing charging by routing yet, I doubt it.

 

[BM3B]

My first Tesla (2018 LR 3) was imported to Ukraine in 2020 after it was sold at auction. I hope it survives the invasion! I'd love to buy that car back one day. Dreams. Stay strong friends! What a sad time for the world and humanity.

 

[israndy]

Bummer. I was thinking we'd all have a meet up there!

Oh, No, Another person saying it's up:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497335294013546498

I'm up for meeting tomorrow if others are. Like a few of us did at the new Union City SC last week

 

[SilverMonk]

After all the various activities in Las Vegas, we finally hit the road to travel back to Denver.
We headed toward Kingman, planning I-40 to I-25 (Albuquerque), but decided to drop south from Flagstaff to avoid snow storm aftermath issues on I-40.
So Flagstaff to Tucson towards El Paso, then up I-25.
Deming showed "out of service" while charging to 90% at Willcox.. Deming showed active while driving towards El Paso. So, we hit Deming after all.
We skipped El Paso to get to Truth or Consequences before dark where we had a room reserved.

New to me:

Thursday, 2/24,2022
350. Henderson, NV
351. White Hills, AZ
352. Kingman, AZ
353. Kingman - West Andy Devine, AZ
354. Flagstaff, AZ
355. Sedona, AZ
356. Cordes Lakes, AZ
357. New River, AZ
358. Phoenix - Agua Fria Fwy, AZ

Friday, 2/25/2022
359. Scottsdale - N Scottsdale Rd, AZ
360. Scottsdale - N Kierland Blvd, AZ
361. Phoenix - East Camelback Rd, AZ
362. Casa Grande, AZ
363. Tucson - W River Rd, AZ
364. Tucson - East Skyline Drive, AZ
365. Tucson, AZ
366. Willcox, AZ
367. Deming, AZ
368. Truth or Consequences, NM

 

[PLUS EV]

After all the various activities in Las Vegas, we finally hit the road to travel back to Denver.
We headed toward Kingman, planning I-40 to I-25 (Albuquerque), but decided to drop south from Flagstaff to avoid snow storm aftermath issues on I-40.
So Flagstaff to Tucson towards El Paso, then up I-25.
Deming showed "out of service" while charging to 90% at Willcox.. Deming showed active while driving towards El Paso. So, we hit Deming after all.
We skipped El Paso to get to Truth or Consequences before dark where we had a room reserved.

New to me:

Thursday, 2/24,2022
350. Henderson, NV
351. White Hills, AZ
352. Kingman, AZ
353. Kingman - West Andy Devine, AZ
354. Flagstaff, AZ
355. Sedona, AZ
356. Cordes Lakes, AZ
357. New River, AZ
358. Phoenix - Agua Fria Fwy, AZ

Friday, 2/25/2022
359. Scottsdale - N Scottsdale Rd, AZ
360. Scottsdale - N Kierland Blvd, AZ
361. Phoenix - East Camelback Rd, AZ
362. Casa Grande, AZ
363. Tucson - W River Rd, AZ
364. Tucson - East Skyline Drive, AZ
365. Tucson, AZ
366. Willcox, AZ
367. Deming, AZ
368. Truth or Consequences, NM

That is a massive detour. How serious were these snowstorm aftermath issues? Or are you saying there was still a ton of snow on the road? I did see that Flagstaff got smashed pretty hard a few days ago which isn't unusual for that elevation, but it's such a dry and open climate that they usually have the interstate cleared off the next day.

 

[PLUS EV]

Oh, No, Another person saying it's up:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497335294013546498

I'm up for meeting tomorrow if others are. Like a few of us did at the new Union City SC last week

I couldn't have realistically made it there today anyway, at least not without torturing myself. I was going to drive Corning-Windsor-Sonoma-Moraga tomorrow but now I need to consider changing the route to bag this one. If I go, I'd probably be there in the 2-6pm ish window, but I'm not totally sure it makes sense for me to go that far out of the way just to snag a first, although it would be fun to meet up for a bit. I'll sleep on it. Will have my location on in Life360 tomorrow.

 

[PLUS EV]

February 25th

Oregon

Myrtle Creek

California

Weaverville

 

[bmah]

Oh, No, Another person saying it's up:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497335294013546498

I'm up for meeting tomorrow if others are. Like a few of us did at the new Union City SC last week

Ok now I feel bad because I didn’t see this post before heading out this evening. I didn’t mean to poop on any plans for a joint meet up…it didn’t occur to me anybody would do that so far from the Bay Area. I should have handled that better. Apologies to all in range.

186. Stockton CA (Morada Ave.)

Or whatever this place is called, it’s not in the Nav yet on my car.



Bruce.

 

[israndy]

00 no, leaving now

 

[PLUS EV]

Ok now I feel bad because I didn’t see this post before heading out this evening. I didn’t mean to poop on any plans for a joint meet up…it didn’t occur to me anybody would do that so far from the Bay Area. I should have handled that better. Apologies to all in range.

186. Stockton CA (Morada Ave.)

Or whatever this place is called, it’s not in the Nav yet on my car.

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Bruce.

No worries. Makes my plans easier for tomorrow! I wasn't really looking forward to trying to squeeze that one in Especially because I'm going to be in CA again next month so I had already sort of decided to take care of I-5 and east of I-5 on that trip rather than this one (partly because I'm hoping the new Kettleman supercharger will be working again by then).

 

[israndy]

Ok tag me for that supercharger too

I don’t know why you are avoiding this charger, it’s just off 5 by a few miles

 

[theflyer]

How does Tesla know where I am going, and where I will be stopping, when I arrive, and for how long I will be stopping? There might be a soupçon of veracity to Tesla's omniscience along certain rural interstates like 80 across Wyoming and Nebraska or 94 in North Dakota.

This is how I use the navigation. I may be among the 2% that don't use it appropriately, dunno. I am at location A. I know from looking at the touchscreen or Plugshare, or memory that the next stop will be location B or location C, depending upon variables that I am not certain of at that particular moment. A good example for me out here in California are the Superchargers along Interstate 80: I will ignore the urban charger at the Arden Fair Mall NE of downtown Sac.
--Roseville has two
--Rocklin has one at the service center
--Loomis has one
--Auburn has one

The distance from Roseville to Auburn is about 18 miles, slightly uphill.

There are three in Truckee: The original off Donner Pass Road, the second one off Brockway at the Best Western Motel, and the newest a short hop away at the airport.

Then there is a SC in downtown Reno, just off I-80.

With so many choices, I don't know when I finish charging in Manteca at the Target where I will stop until I am well outside Sac and on my way east. All I know is that I have enough juice to reach any of the five SC listed above. So, I remain flexible. Then, when I leave the foothills to continue upon my way, I may decide that upon summiting Donner Pass, I have enough juice to reach Reno instead of stopping in Truckee. To the contrary, I may have decided to leave the foothills with enough charge to reach Reno, but will have to stop in Truckee to be safe as I used more that I thought heading uphill. And, I might want to stop at the Brockway SC as there is a brewpub/restaurant across the parking lot, and perhaps I can charge long enough while grabbing a bite and a beer to skip Reno and reach Lovelock or Winnemucca.

I simply dial in my next expected SC into the navigation system and leave when I feel comfortable that I have enough reserve to reach my next stop.

Finally, in the warmer months, I keep the navigation off. There is no need to preheat the battery. Most SC I have been to at least once before, and I know how to drive there. For new installations, I will likely just turn the navigation on once I am within ten miles or so.

We superchargers are a different breed from most drivers. My understanding is as follows: Get in your car and set a final destination. Let Tesla calculate which superchargers to use along the route. This is the way most people will use Tesla nav. Doing such enables Tesla to optimize stops across the fleet for everyone who is doing this. Also, I assume anyone who sets a destination or Waypoint as a supercharger will also be factored-in.

 

[PLUS EV]

Ok tag me for that supercharger too

I don’t know why you are avoiding this charger, it’s just off 5 by a few miles

Because I wasn't planning on going down I-5?

Anyways I woke up super early and couldn't get back to sleep, so I'll probably go ahead and get it now.

 

[israndy]

Oh, I was trying to read on the phone while driving, I see you said I-5 will be next month.

Today looks like a good day for a drive too.

 

[cpa]

We superchargers are a different breed from most drivers. My understanding is as follows: Get in your car and set a final destination. Let Tesla calculate which superchargers to use along the route. This is the way most people will use Tesla nav. Doing such enables Tesla to optimize stops across the fleet for everyone who is doing this. Also, I assume anyone who sets a destination or Waypoint as a supercharger will also be factored-in.

Flyer, I had suspected as much. But I believe that this total reliance on some unintelligent computer software to plan a trip is treating us like mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. Maybe it is my libertarian outlook on certain things. Here is an example from Thursday:

I needed to go to Modesto for some work, some 80 miles away north. I left home with 73%, which I knew from experience would be enough to get me there and back to Supercharge at Merced. For drill, I dialed in Minneapolis upon leaving home. The navigation told me to stop in Merced with 45% range, charge for 30 minutes, then stop in Roseville, charge for 40, then Truckee--Donner Pass for 35 to reach Lovelock for 20, Winnemucca and so forth along Interstate 80. I turned off navigation (I generally hate it visible unless I have doubts about the destination, or is necessary to "precondition.")

Twenty-five miles down the road between Madera and Chowchilla, I dialed into Minneapolis again. Now, it said to drive all the way to Manteca--Austin Road and arrive with 18%, charge 25 minutes to reach Loomis, charge 40 minutes to skip Truckee and reach Reno - Downtown. Charge 50 minutes to Winnemucca and so on along I-80.

I tested it one last time just outside Turlock. Navigation #3 said to drive to Elk Grove and arrive with 11%, charge 20 minutes to Auburn, thence to Truckee-Donner Pass, Lovelock, Winnemucca and so forth.

So, three different routings within a span of about 60 miles. If we assume that the software would automatically update as the battery depletes, drivers will become confused when a stop 35 miles away changes to a stop 70 miles away, and then changes a third time to a stop 120 miles away.

From my personal experiences I can say the following:

Merced is in a Smart & Final parking lot. There is a Popeye's adjacent. Other than that, Merced is a dump. I would hate to remain there for more than 15 minutes.

Manteca--Austin Road is decent. Target is close as are a couple of other places. There is room to go for a short walk about.

Elk Grove is a dump. It is a strip mall likely built in the '70s with lots of trash about and older stores that have seen better days. Ingress and egress is poor.

Roseville (I assume it is the newer one) is a modern outdoor mall. Ingress and egress is average from 80.

Loomis is in a strip mall with poor-to-average places to patronize. (I've heard reports that there is a decent restaurant about, but I am one of those who does not generally eat while SCing.)

Auburn is on my to do list, so no comments one way or another.

Reno - Downtown is sorta messy to access, and it is quite difficult when there are many pedestrians and much traffic on Virginia or Sierra Sts. Not much to do other than wait nearby. A short walk is possible on the surface streets.

Lovelock is also a dump, located at a Chevron gas station parking lot with nothing to do. I think a Mickey D's is about 200 yards away.

Winnemucca is not much better than Lovelock, but at least there is a casino entrance adjacent to the SC stalls for one to seek cooler temps in the summer and perhaps grab a Coke or bottle of water while waiting.

In closing, this waypoint feature is unknown to me, so I would not know how to utilize it. In past years when I did wish to stray off the beaten path, I would figure the additional distance in miles and multiply by 1.15 to guesstimate how much I needed in reserve to reach these waypoints. Worked real well.

 

[theflyer]

Flyer, I had suspected as much. But I believe that this total reliance on some unintelligent computer software to plan a trip is treating us like mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. Maybe it is my libertarian outlook on certain things. Here is an example from Thursday:

I needed to go to Modesto for some work, some 80 miles away north. I left home with 73%, which I knew from experience would be enough to get me there and back to Supercharge at Merced. For drill, I dialed in Minneapolis upon leaving home. The navigation told me to stop in Merced with 45% range, charge for 30 minutes, then stop in Roseville, charge for 40, then Truckee--Donner Pass for 35 to reach Lovelock for 20, Winnemucca and so forth along Interstate 80. I turned off navigation (I generally hate it visible unless I have doubts about the destination, or is necessary to "precondition.")

Twenty-five miles down the road between Madera and Chowchilla, I dialed into Minneapolis again. Now, it said to drive all the way to Manteca--Austin Road and arrive with 18%, charge 25 minutes to reach Loomis, charge 40 minutes to skip Truckee and reach Reno - Downtown. Charge 50 minutes to Winnemucca and so on along I-80.

I tested it one last time just outside Turlock. Navigation #3 said to drive to Elk Grove and arrive with 11%, charge 20 minutes to Auburn, thence to Truckee-Donner Pass, Lovelock, Winnemucca and so forth.

So, three different routings within a span of about 60 miles. If we assume that the software would automatically update as the battery depletes, drivers will become confused when a stop 35 miles away changes to a stop 70 miles away, and then changes a third time to a stop 120 miles away.

From my personal experiences I can say the following:

Merced is in a Smart & Final parking lot. There is a Popeye's adjacent. Other than that, Merced is a dump. I would hate to remain there for more than 15 minutes.

Manteca--Austin Road is decent. Target is close as are a couple of other places. There is room to go for a short walk about.

Elk Grove is a dump. It is a strip mall likely built in the '70s with lots of trash about and older stores that have seen better days. Ingress and egress is poor.

Roseville (I assume it is the newer one) is a modern outdoor mall. Ingress and egress is average from 80.

Loomis is in a strip mall with poor-to-average places to patronize. (I've heard reports that there is a decent restaurant about, but I am one of those who does not generally eat while SCing.)

Auburn is on my to do list, so no comments one way or another.

Reno - Downtown is sorta messy to access, and it is quite difficult when there are many pedestrians and much traffic on Virginia or Sierra Sts. Not much to do other than wait nearby. A short walk is possible on the surface streets.

Lovelock is also a dump, located at a Chevron gas station parking lot with nothing to do. I think a Mickey D's is about 200 yards away.

Winnemucca is not much better than Lovelock, but at least there is a casino entrance adjacent to the SC stalls for one to seek cooler temps in the summer and perhaps grab a Coke or bottle of water while waiting.

In closing, this waypoint feature is unknown to me, so I would not know how to utilize it. In past years when I did wish to stray off the beaten path, I would figure the additional distance in miles and multiply by 1.15 to guesstimate how much I needed in reserve to reach these waypoints. Worked real well.

Nothing stops everyone from doing as you are doing. To each their own. I tend to force my route too. Waypoints are easy once you get the hang of them and can be very handy to specify a set of superchargers you want to visit. However, if you prefer to not have navigation enabled at all, one-by-one is obviously the best.

I do agree that not all supercharger locations are the same and I hope one day Tesla will make it easier to select locations based on additional filters like 24x7 bathroom access or type of business.

When it comes to being a knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, I always find it interesting how humans set an anchor point for what level of automation/simplicity/skill is the "right" level based basically on when they became an adult. Anything that came before isn't particularly necessary to know/use exclusively and anything that comes after turns us into lazy half-humans. The vast majority of us cannot start a fire without a match but there was a point-in-time in human history where that skill was essential. How many of us could survive if we had to hunt or fish for our food every day...an essential skill for most of human history? Today's 20-year olds will poo-poo the gee-whiz devices and tools their grandchildren take as essential. As long as society holds together, it probably will not be necessary for everyone to build a fire or even read a paper map.

 

[Big Earl]

2/26:

1,044: Seaford, DE (first)

It was nice to catch up with @theflyer, @Thinkje and @Lanny. We spent an hour and change chatting about superchargers, travel and Custer.

 

[SilverMonk]

That is a massive detour. How serious were these snowstorm aftermath issues? Or are you saying there was still a ton of snow on the road? I did see that Flagstaff got smashed pretty hard a few days ago which isn't unusual for that elevation, but it's such a dry and open climate that they usually have the interstate cleared off the next day.

Yep, huge detour.
Approaching Flagstaff eastbound, there were numerous semis still being extracted from snow banks along the interstate. Flagstaff was a mess.
The prior evening google maps was showing a handful of road closings on I-40 between Flagstaff and Albuquerque. And the snow was supposed to continue through there past midnight. I mentioned to my wife the possible road problems further on I-40, and the "detour". I was surprised at her response of "you've come this far and might not get an opportunity again soon, so why not? So I jumped on the chance to pick up a dozen extra sites.

New to me supercharger site:

Saturday, 2/26/2022
369. Albuquerque, NM (mid-morning, line when we arrived, 10 minute wait)

 

[vanjwilson]

Day 1 of my first cross-country road trip (in any car, just happens to be electric).

Superchargers visited:

• Fair Play, SC (already got a couple of weeks ago)
• Buford, GA
• Atlanta, GA
• Newnan, GA
• Auburn, AL
• Montgomery, AL
• Greenville, AL
• Mobile, AL

(I already entered in my column of the spreadsheet.)

I feel like I'm finally playing the game.