No. people buy an electric car so to save the planet. They are able to use public charging, but Supercharging as well. Why do you think Tesla installed Urban Supercharging? So that people who don’t have access to a home charger can get a weekly QC. I’m not in Tory or in Van so I don’t know that well, but I hear that it’s extremely difficult to get a charger installed at your condo, a little less at work.
Boy, you are a tease! I think we can narrow your mystery location down to ........Toronto....somewhere. I have to remain sceptical though. I remember last year and all the teasing from Tesla about a great new charger for the central Toronto crowd, and what we got was the Eaton Centre charger, where it costs you about $15 after tax to get your "free" supercharge after driving through the city core's choked streets. Sure was lunch-bag-let-down big time that time. The low usage on that charger is an indictment of that charger's usability. Let's hope your sources have a handle on a better plan!Don't worry about it.
Based on my sources, there is a replacement larger, better located Supercharger in the works in the immediate area. Can't give more details other than that the location was mentioned in this thread
I think in theory Adaptabl, you're correct; that superchargers are intended generally for en-route charging, but in practice there are exceptions, and those in condos or on street-parking need a short-term solution while those in power positions get their s--t together. I'd agree with Mr PlugShare that we can't wait for the power players to catch up, we get our EVs and then push hard for change, and use superchargers as replacements for home-charging in the short term. It's not ideal for the reasons you give (charging during peak power periods etc), but all the more reason to get real solutions in place, and that solution is not to delay purchasing EVs, this just allows the power players more time to do nothing. At the moment, I'm after the Transportation department at the City to stop sitting on their rumps and provide a standard approach to approving curb-side private chargers in circumstances where there are not major physical obstacles, and I can tell you it's an uphill battle big time. But it won't happen until a large number of EV owners hit on their political representatives and make waves, not wait for these bozos to act on their own. There. I'll step down off my soap box and give it a rest.
One of the strangest things I've read on this forum.
.Has to be Shops at Don Mills. That would be a great location. At least for me!Don't worry about it.
Based on my sources, there is a replacement larger, better located Supercharger in the works in the immediate area. Can't give more details other than that the location was mentioned in this thread
>>Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience! I can understand where you're coming from, although, not living in a condo myself, I do hear a lot of problems with condo boards not really getting behind the need for charging down the the condo parking garages, even when the work to be done would be paid for by the individual owner(s). There seems to be a lot of mistaken liability issues that require education to solve. I imagine as an EV driver you've been able to help educational those you work with and get chargers in where warranted in your building. All the best!
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Thanks for the added input. According to World Population Review, Metropolitan Seattle has a population of around 3.5 million, and the Tesla charging map shows 8 chargers + 9 more on the way, with existing and new chargers located in the central regions of the metro area and around the suburban areas. Not bad at all. Contrast that with Metro Toronto with a population over 6 million (ie approx double Metro Seattle), with the Tesla map showing 6 active chargers, and 9 on the way located mostly in the west end. As you can see; a different picture. Tesla has some catching up to do around here by comparison. By this comparison, Toronto should have 16 existing charger locations with 18 on the way, to be serviced on par with Seattle. Metro Toronto is the 4th largest metropolitan zone in North America with a population density averaging over 4k per square km.
No idea why you are trying to make this thread about Seattle or turn it into some Seattle vs Toronto dick-measuring contest, but your statement that there are 8 superchargers in the metro area is laughable. I guess you are considering Aberdeen in Sequim to be in Seattle Metro? That would be like me saying Woodstock and Parry Sound are in the Toronto metropolitan area.
I seem to have mistakenly believed the metropolitan Seattle zone to extend beyond what it actually does, so let's take your number, your the expert. That would make it 3 now and 6 coming if you include Tacoma as part of the metro area, and you're not loosing any chargers. Good for you guys. Anyway, I apologise if you took offence at my attempt to relate our experience to your own, there was no attempt to dick measure; we might both be embarrassed
. It is true that the Lawrence charger has got its problems, mostly related to the fact that it sits at a Tesla store and maintenance and new car delivery centre, which makes it a zoo most of the time. But it is also central to the major north/south commuting corridor, meaning that it's very important to those coming into and going out of the city centre, and there is no substitute being proposed. Ya, we could struggle around with crappy work-arounds, but why should we settle for that? Tesla is not some econo-box cookie-cutter. We paid big bucks and were promised an expanding charger network, not a shrinking one. You might find this sounds harsh, but how can you say shutting down the most centrally located supercharger in Toronto is no grounds for concern when you don't even live here? Walk a mile (make that a 1.6 kilometres) in our shoes, then you can make a pronouncement.Yuk! Did it seem to you that all the slots were filled with parked dealer cars? ie none actually charging, many without front plates or M3s with windshield stickers?
