Or Commisionners Street!
Dam, the secret is out on this charger! I was using it until my charger gets installed next week. Feld Kalia has 2 tesla chargers in his parking lot that he allows use of through the Rover parking app. One spot is 50 cents an hour, the other $1. Still really cheap. If you are charging solo there, that is 11 kW/hr. He is losing money, but says he wants to give back. Nice guy. If you have a bit more time, or need charging during business hours the Green Storage on Eastern has a J1772 that is free. You will have to ask the office to turn the charger on, but they are friendly. Be sure to thank them, because you don't have to be a customer to charge.Or Commisionners Street!
There is also a charger at Feld Kalia at Adelaide and Berkeley - 50c /hour after work hours
Thanks for the feedback AmandaC. To keep the pressure on Tesla to not sweep us under the carpet, I suggest doing what I've done, which is to talk to the store manager at Lawrence and ask him to request the Charger Team to indicate where they think you should do your home-charging after they close Lawrence, and what they think is a reasonable commute to the most local charger for home charging. Followup in writing to the store manager and ask for a written reply back to your written questions. The number up there is 647-260-1794. If the store manager is not available, ask for the associate store manager, who is John Gamal. If there is any suggestion that the supercharger network is intended for en-route not home charging, remind them that Tesla sold you the car knowing that you didn't have access to home-charging, and that they don't have a policy of recommending against purchasing a Tesla without home-charging access. I've had to remind them of this, and you might as well. I think it important to make them aware that your (and my ) situation is not unique. Good Luck! It would be great if you can post how they respond to this thread.
Is that a free-to-the-public type 2 charger they have there? If so, a type 2 charger is going to be rather slow. This may effectively be a destination charger, rather than a good substitute for home charging, which usually involves replacing quite a bit of charge.
It's a Chargepoint dual-head station. Provides 30 amps dedicated or 16 amps each shared. Free to use overnight and fairly steep to use during the day. There's also a CCS DC fast-ish charger but of course for us that's not much use.
Ya, I hear You. The Canadian Tesla Owners Club might have material and information relevant to helping get your condo corp to get with the new world order. Their link is: https://ontario.teslaownersclub.ca/ Also, have you tried getting the condo corp to let you plug into a 110v circuit? There should be a few of these 15amp plugs around the building's garage, which you could use by limiting the draw to say 10 amps using the car's charging app. That's less than a hair dryer. I can't see how they could refuse that if you agreed to pay the off-peak KW/hr rate which is peanuts really. It would only give you around 6km/hr of gain, but better than nothing as an interim solution, and the M3 might give you even a little more than that level of gain. Depending on your mileage needs, this might help somewhat.
When do you need supercharging in Toronto ?
Meh, if they're leaving the city there's plenty of supercharging. If they're staying close by they only need to charge once a week, and barely need any rangefor any given trip any way. If they need to charge, try parking in a downtown office building for a weekend day or any night and charging for $10. Or pay $10 to park and then charge at Eaton centre SC.
I would expect the people is situation A would be the ones concerned, as I am. I would disagree though that supercharging is not needed when using a remote charger as a substitute for home-charging. Home-charging at home can be slow since it's usually an overnight thing, but having to use a remote charger at a distance beyond walking distance means you have to sit with the car while it charges, and that's going to be a long time when you need say a 30%-40% charge. The typical Type 2 public charger is only going to provide about 20km/hr of gain, vs a supercharger giving 200+ km/hr. On a Type 2 charger we're talking hours, not minutes of wait time.
What type of slow ass public chargers are you using? Almost all the ones I find give my 38 - 40 km hr, and the Tesla chargers give me almost 68 km/hr. Superchargers when charging at the lower state of charge are showing me 771 km/hr though.
Your 40 km/hr is a best case scenario (high-end type 2 charger, nobody sharing the charger limit, no cold battery limitations etc), and even so, at 40 km/hr, that's waiting around for an hour to get just a 40 km gain, or about 8-10% charge on a 75 kw MS. With a 15 minute commute on city streets each way, that's an hour and a half to get just 40 kms of range. You can loose that to phantom loss in the winter in a few days of idle time. That's hardly a home-charging substitute. If you remember Charging 101, home-charging is supposed to be the backbone of charging so that you start out fully charged, with en-route charging simply replacing charge used, with destination charging a bonus. This way charging wait-time is next to nil. To fully charge up at 40 km/hr you'd be there all day. Tesla is supposed to be the better way, and it is, when charging the way we're supposed to. Using Lawrence as a home-charging substitute isn't ideal, but was acceptable on the assumption that with the charger network expanding, additional options would make themselves available, and those additional options aren't happening in the east end. It's just that with Lawrence closing, a close supercharger substitute for home-charging is not being proposed.
I would just like to put in that the “type” refers to the type of connector, like J1772 is type 1 and Mennekes is type 2. The “Level” is equivalent to the speed of the charger: Level 1 = 3kW, Level 2 = 10 kW, Level 3 = 50kW, Level 4 = 120 kW (Tesla Supercharger) or 150 kW and faster
Maybe you missed what I wrote, but that should be maybe a once a week occurrence correct? There's nowhere you can charge while at work? Nowhere you can supercharge when you're out of the house on the weekend?
