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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.

 

[PLUS EV]

Darn - if I had known you were so close I'd have stopped by when I was there last month. My girlfriend's daughter performs with Cirque du Soliel, so a bunch of us dropped by to see her perform. Had dinner with @ThisIsTrue and his wife, who have this view of The Sphere out their back window:View attachment 1006385

It was nearly 20 years ago when I lived there! But yeah I lived in those apartments for 6 months (they were just regular apartments back then) and I lived next door at Meridian (on Flamingo and Koval) for a few years.

I still go back to see friends at the Meridian sometimes. It was a fun place to live back then. Mostly unstable types with money who lived there (they were rentals back then). You know escorts, strippers, and professional gamblers There was never a dull night down at the jacuzzi lol. My neighbor got 2nd in the World Series of Poker Main Event one year ($3.5MM) and all of a sudden there was a Bentley in his parking spot instead of a Honda. Probably not the most disciplined purchase!

 

[bmah]

Wow. I’m guessing those residents aren’t very happy about that.

Yeah that looks like some sci-fi show or something.

Bruce.

 

[bmah]

Check-ins for 2024-01-05
- Fremont - Warm Springs Blvd, CA (#390) (First to check-in)

Bruce.

 

[bmah]

Check-ins for 2024-01-06
- Rocklin - Granite Dr, CA (#391)
- Ripon, CA (#392) (First to check-in) (shared with @NKYTA)

Bruce.

 

[NKYTA]

Darn - if I had known you were so close I'd have stopped by when I was there last month. My girlfriend's daughter performs with Cirque du Soliel, so a bunch of us dropped by to see her perform. Had dinner with @ThisIsTrue and his wife, who have this view of The Sphere out their back window:View attachment 1006385

Well, at least it is their back window!

 

[NKYTA]

Check-ins for 2024-01-06
- Ripon, CA (#1740) (First to check-in)
- Fremont - 47966 Warm Springs Blvd, CA (#1741)

It was a bit chilly, but thanks for hanging around 5-10 minutes @bmah !
I didn’t charge at home so had to wait in line for 5 minutes (and charge for 5) at Tracy SC otherwise it would have been spot on.
There seemed to be a lag in Life360 as it showed you well north when I was at Tracy.

 

[NKYTA]

Depending on weather, hoping to do the I-70 route going east, then coming back thru Atlanta (ick) and west. Is there a tool that can look at my map and plan a route thru my unvisited sites?

From @GHammer and @Big Earl comments below, I’ll be looking into those options.
In the past I’ve done it all “by hand” on paper. When I tried for the one day record on the East Coast (@Thinkje)it took a couple hours planning ahead of time, and I still came up 2 short. Of course that record was shattered multiple times last year by @tes-s .

 

[GHammer]

From @GHammer and @Big Earl comments below, I’ll be looking into those options.
In the past I’ve done it all “by hand” on paper. When I tried for the one day record on the East Coast (@Thinkje)it took a couple hours planning ahead of time, and I still came up 2 short. Of course that record was shattered multiple times last year by @tes-s .

Downside of using Google My Maps is that it is limited to 10 layers and 10 waypoints per direction layer and you have to determine the order of the stops yourself. Ive also used RoadWarrior and my manual planned routes were always very close to the apps planned. A problem I had with RoadWarrior is that it seemed to want to have fixed start and end points and just planned the uploaded waypoints. There was a way around, as I recall, but it seemed kinda kludgey. Maybe @Big Earl found a way around that or perhaps they've updated the app since I used it.

 

[JSergeant]

I almost forgot to post this. We did a short trip to visit Vianden castle, and stopped by Mensbech on the way back. This will probably be the last new Supercharger before we return to the US at the end of the week.

Check-ins for 2024-01-06

- Mënsbech, Luxembourg (#2156)

Luxembourg cleared!

 

[Big Earl]

Downside of using Google My Maps is that it is limited to 10 layers and 10 waypoints per direction layer and you have to determine the order of the stops yourself. Ive also used RoadWarrior and my manual planned routes were always very close to the apps planned. A problem I had with RoadWarrior is that it seemed to want to have fixed start and end points and just planned the uploaded waypoints. There was a way around, as I recall, but it seemed kinda kludgey. Maybe @Big Earl found a way around that or perhaps they've updated the app since I used it.

Tap and hold a location on the map to set starting point. If I’m doing a one-way trip, I just add my destination as a waypoint and set it as final.

 

[vanjwilson]

Yup. Going to pick up my girlfriend at CLT airport, probably 4-Feb. I have at least 4 SC targets near there (for some values of ("near"). Are you north, south, east, west, or right downtown?

I'm ~5 miles southeast of downtown. (You can tell I'm not a Charlotte native because I don't say "Uptown".) If you triangulate from the superchargers at downtown Metropolitan Ave., Providence Rd., and Matthews, I'm roughly at the center tripoint.

(Almost none of the Charlotte area superchargers are convenient for quick off-and-back-on stops; they're all more for locals without home charging.)

 

[israndy]

Check-ins for 2024-01-06
- Ripon, CA (#1051) (First to check-in)
- Fremont - 47966 Warm Springs Blvd, CA (#1052)

And the FREE but NOT Supercharger aware app that I use to route plan up to 26 locations is:

https://www.mapquest.com/routeplanner/copy-paste

Just lasso your Supercharger's cities and paste into Mapquest with your home city as the first entry. It's good at figuring out if you should hit AZ before or after Vegas and such. I have enjoyed it with LA treks pasting in the actual addresses but I also find myself adjusting in ABRP on those trips so that they look better on the map instead of absolutely the fastest trip. Honestly I should use it more instead of just going where I know. Also, Lawson (@Big Earl) may be kind enough to use his pay-for app and send you a route if asked SUPER nicely (Super nicely!). And I tried using RoadTrippers.com as it also offers best routing, and it's not too expensive, but I paid for a year in advance and never used it.

So Tableau->MapQuest->ABRP->Tesla NAV. I already have my next LA/LV/AZ trip planned. I'll put in as much as a day's worth of SpCs into the NAV and look at the route it selects and move them around until it predicts the shortest amount of time driving. It get's unwieldy if you put in more than you can see on screen w/o scrolling, plus you run the risk of hitting the Navigate To button and wiping out a lot of work planning the route, so maybe 9 on the wide screens and 12 on the tall screens.

Also with a long list you run the risk of it telling you to go to a random SpC and you not noticing you are headed East when everything you plan to touch is to the West. George's (@PLUS EV) hint to Remove Superchargers along the Route is critical with the current Tesla NAV when routing.

 

[TreborThickweb]

Influential? Probably something like Boston Harbor Light. It's the oldest one in the US and was manned as recently as the 1990s.

Capes Disappointment WA as it’s at the channel to get through the Columbia Bar, that’s a nasty piece of water!

I charged in Henderson but didn’t stay, a close friend lives there. I need to go back

Canajoharie NY where Life Savers candy was made ranks up there. And then there is a Berlin in every New England state stressed differently from the German one. Then I was the laughing stock in California learning the silent J in names like El Cajon. Fun stuff! So now I can handle the Puyallup, Tulalip, and Clatiskanies pretty good.

 

[Limited]

Just cleaning up Southern California.

Check-ins for 2024-01-10
- Lancaster, CA (#949) (First to check-in)
- Bakersfield - Camino Del Rio Ct, CA (#950)

 

[a.deodatus]

Check in for 1/11/2024:
- Rifle, CO (#200) (First to Check-In)

 

[Limited]

I see Laughlin, NV is still green, so fair warning!

 

[bmah]

I see Laughlin, NV is still green, so fair warning!

It feels to me like Laughlin has been green since forever, but it's "only" been a couple weeks.

Bruce.

 

[phxazcraig]

I finally did a real (overnight) EV road trip in my 2023 MYP. This was one of the easiest possible trips in terms of charging as I went from Phoenix to San Diego via interstates. I ended up charging three times on the way there, twice on the way back and never repeated the same station. All of the chargers I stopped at had some pretty good points.
1. Buckeye - only about 60 miles into the trip we decided to stop early for lunch and bathroom break. I learned on this trip that bathroom breaks tend to rule my stops, not an unexpected result for a 70-year-old. The Buckeye stop was conveniently located in a Carl's Junior parking lot.
2. Tacna, AZ - 8 stalls, but 250kw and very convenient to get off/on I-8. A 'perfect' stop in that it is next to a 24/ business where you can pee and get food (Minute Mart).
3. El Centro, Wake Ave. This one is close to the freeway, but is very tight with 4 stalls back-to-back. Food nearby, like Panera Bread, but this is the type of place where all the businesses will be closed if you get there late enough.
4. Fashion Valley Mall, San Diego. 48 stalls, 24 of them 72kwh, 24 of them 250kwh. Quite busy. We stopped here after checking into our nearby hotel to top up to 80% to be able to tour San Diego the next two days. The 72kwh are a great idea for allowing you to full-charge while leisurely shopping at the mall.
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At the hotel (Best Western @ Taylor Street exit on I-8), there were two EV Loop destination chargers. They did not show up on a charger map, nor did the EV Loop app work to let me charge here. Frustrated at trying to get it to work I told the front desk it was perhaps broken. Turns out you need to ask the front desk to come out and unlock it with a key to start charging, and the cost is billed to the room. I used it the second and third night to top up to 80%, and the charge was a very reasonable $6 for one of the charges. I wonder how common this is to have a charger that won't work as a point-of-sale terminal that needs someone with a key to start it?

5. On the way back I started with 85% charge and a tentative plan to go all the way to Yuma and skip El Centro. It is possible to do the entire drive with one stop in Yuma, but you want to start with probably 95% charge to make it. I kept seeing expected arrival charge level sinking below 8% due to high winds from the north. (Cost 13% charge.) With 15 miles to El Centro, I decided to stop for a charge, and I really needed a bathroom break. This time we stopped at the other, older El Centro location just outside a mall food court. We stopped, peed, at and came back to the car just as it finished charging to 80%. 150kwh, pull-through stalls.
6. Dateland! This new-ish 40 stall location is very modern. 250kwh with covered solar panel parking and a megapack. I shared 40 stalls with 2 other Teslas. There is a big convenience store (Date Shakes!) there with food. Not sure if it is 24/7, but between this stop and Tacna you are well-served between Gila Bend and Yuma.

I've now experienced 'how it's done', and I've experienced the mild range anxiety you can get trying to make it to a stop just a bit far for conditions. I'll be doing another road trip to California for a funeral in a couple of weeks traveling to Hanford.

I used FSD all the way home from San Diego, until I hit heavy traffic in Phoenix. I had to take over multiple times on the trip when things got 'interesting'. Overall it works very well on the freeway, but I wish it would get back into the right lane without me constantly having to tell it to with a turn signal.

 

[cpa]

Meanwhile, in other news:

Wednesday when my wife opened the charge flap on her M3, the flap portion fell off. There were no sorts of issues that would have resulted in the flap snapping from its hinge. El Cheapo design.

The Ranger came out this morning to replace the entire charge port. My wallet is now lighter by $231.

The Ranger said he had seen this before, but not very often.

 

[israndy]

El Cheap design that rarely breaks? Not following the point