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[WannabeOwner]

Do the new longer cables allow a Tesla to also use the wrong stall to compensate? Maybe go in forwards and you can then pick the one on the other side?

<SlapsForehaed> ... in my defencing I've been backing in for many years now ...

So ... just paint the lines for a bay at the right hand end too and we are good. Except for the 1st car to arrive once all the bays are in use

 

[Sean.]

Do the new longer cables allow a Tesla to also use the wrong stall to compensate? Maybe go in forwards and you can then pick the one on the other side?

Was having the same discussion in August when Tottenham opened and a chap over at SpeakEV tried with his model 3…

I couldn’t get it to reach on my model X either. Think it’s deliberate - the cable length - to limit “off side” charging on Tesla’s in this pedestal placement.

 

[Dat37863]

Was having the same discussion in August when Tottenham opened and a chap over at SpeakEV tried with his model 3…

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I couldn’t get it to reach on my model X either. Think it’s deliberate - the cable length - to limit “off side” charging on Tesla’s in this pedestal placement.

It would reach if he drove in forwards

 

[Sean.]

It would reach if he drove in forwards

Not so sure...

 

[Sean.]

Experimental session 2 from August:

I just got it to reach on the X but could only do so by pulling the front of the car way over the kerb:

It wouldn’t reach on the other wall / bank of units as the retaining wall wouldn’t allow it:

 

[CMc1]

Gatwick

 

[Sean.]

Gatwick
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Judging by the genny, energisation may be a little way off

 

[yessuz]

I doubt the car in bay 7 would stay long. Woodall is not open to non Teslas

that was just an example

 

[cezdoc]

Gatwick
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It's good to see confirmation of progress there. It looks to me like four supercharger stalls are in place, whereas the planning drawings had eight. There aren't any more foundations visible so looks like it will be a four stall site (but plenty of other non-Tesla ultra rapids to choose from!).

 

[pheo]

I agree charging options are not great but I’m not sure I agree it’s a priority for a significant number of ‘ultra rapid’ chargers - I just don’t see the need.

Destination charging makes the much sense, easier, cheaper and can be deployed more quickly at hotels, lodge parks, camp sites, public car parks etc.

The Lake District looks big, but really it is only ~45 miles across. The roads are relatively slow so you are not really going anywhere very quickly. The last thing I’d want to do when visiting Windermere is waste 25 mins waiting for the car to rapid charge…

I’m not saying no to supercharging in the lakes, it would be useful to some but prioritising more sites on the M6/A78M would have a bigger impact.

This is why I charged on the 11kw posts at the visitor center. Worked well while my daughter went on the adventure play park!

 

[ringi]

The last thing I’d want to do when visiting Windermere is waste 25 mins waiting for the car to rapid charge…

I see Windermere as the WC stop when going to Keswick on a nice day var Poorly Bridge.

Windermere is get a very large grid upgrade to enable electrify of the chain ferry (and I assume other boats) there is parking space near the transformer site.

(But personally I rather the charger are at Holehird Gardens.)

 

[ringi]

BP has to buy it somewhere. Tesla stuff is good. And cheap possibly. So if they have spare capacity to make and will sell then it makes perfect sense. Probably not the last such deal we will see.

Does give issues of slow charging with 800 volt cars unless the hardware can do more then we been told....

 

[ringi]

Isn’t it more the case that most rapid chargers, including Ionity(certainly the early ones) are standalone units and can’t share power between stalls. They are just AC in and DC out

As all chargers are software controled with upgradeable software it will be possible (by paying enough) to get any charger intergated with a systems that monitors/controls total site power usage.

 

[Sean.]

Does give issues of slow charging with 800 volt cars unless the hardware can do more then we been told....

That would be mighty interesting if indeed Tesla started selling 1000V output capable cabinets to BP and the like. Not wildly beyond the realms of possibility. They have the tech and are doing it with MVA scale charging for the truck.

 

[ringi]

I think we will see it enabled in software as soon as Tesla ships their Chelsea Tractor.

 

[Sean.]

I think we will see it enabled in software as soon as Tesla ships their Chelsea Tractor.

I will honestly spit my drink out with laughter when the first clueless twunt buys one, ships it here and gets properly wedged in our victorian sized roads

 

[Ian James]

I will honestly spit my drink out with laughter when the first clueless twunt buys one, ships it here and gets properly wedged in our victorian sized roads

I’ve seen a few F-150s in the UK, the Lego tractor is the same size. Good for towing 5th wheels on motorways IMO, not much else.

 

[GRiLLA]

I saw an electric F-150 driving down a street in London without drama. It's not as big as a bin lorry so hardly going to be an issue,

 

[Sean.]

I saw an electric F-150 driving down a street in London without drama. It's not as big as a bin lorry so hardly going to be an issue,

I was thinking more along the line of the Hogarth Flyover in Chiswick or the good old 6ft 6in width restrictors. Or a good old multi-storey CP...

 

[ACarneiro]

Or a good old multi-storey CP...

There's one in Luton that's about to have plenty of space for Cybertrucks...