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That's true south of the border too IME. Looking on Plugshare the number of owner-reports of recent "not working" is damning. I've only ever needed 3rd party charging as "nice to have", but at a guess I would say that 50% of the time I failed to charge, or it took ages (e.g. phone calls getting them to initiate a charge that I couldn't manage from my Phone APP or similar, plenty of those then resulted in failure too)
Unless I've missed one I think I last posted a "Work in Progress" list on 29-Apr-2018, here's an update
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Are Brighouse and Leicester Forest East still "a thing" ?
not quite matching the promised "expansion of network" expectation of course ...
| 06-Jul-18 | Woodall Northbound (Permit) |
| 29-Jan-19 | London - Edgware (Permit) |
| 12-Feb-19 | Motherwell |
| 11-Feb-19 | Perth |
| 14-Oct -17 | Leicester Forest East Northbound M1 J21-21a (Permit) |
| 14-Oct -17 | Leicester Forest East Southbound M1 J21-21a (Permit) |
| 21-Sep-17 | Fleet Welcome Break Southbound, M3 |
| 21-Mar-17 | Brighouse Southbound 24-25 M62 |
| 21-Mar-17 | Brighouse Northbound 24-25 M62 |
| . | Pending at 29-Apr-2018, Now Open: |
| 22-May-17 - 02-Jul-18 | Welcome Break Burtonwood, M62 |
| 28-Aug-17- 29-Jun-18 | Membury Welcome Break Eastbound, M4 Hungerford |
| 30-Jul-17 - 27-Jun-18 | Scotch Corner Holiday Inn Darlington - A1 & A66 |
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Are Brighouse and Leicester Forest East still "a thing" ?
not quite matching the promised "expansion of network" expectation of course ...
Brighouse is built but no power, allegedly due to wayleaves; there's no way to predict when/if that will ever get sorted: it could happen very quickly if it did, but relies on random external factors.
LFE has had no construction and various obstacles which do not appear insurmountable. The original development was in partnership with Cambourne Energy Storage, but they have since gone bust. The construction also requires them to thread a high-voltage cable across the top of the footbridge joining northbound/southbound; there was a rumour that this can only be done with the M1 closed, and that they had missed a window of opportunity when the M1 was being closed for other work.
So it seems likely that Tesla will eventually construct LFE.
| 28-Feb-19 | Chandler's Cross |
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I noticed on one of Bjørn's YouTubes that the Superchargers from Dover to London have been converted to CCS for M3 (he showed a picture of SatNav in M3; only a couple of the ones in Norway remain to be done, and there was good coverage across EU already, so seems that will be in place before M3 gets here. The M3 SatNav only shows CCS-converted Superchargers on the map, which makes sense but is still quite cool)
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Nice to know, thanks, but I'll not hold my breath
Supposedly Tesla has changed tack to get wayleaves etc. in place before starting physical works, but there are sites where ground works have been completed for months (years even ...) and still landlord/similar is not allowing work to be completed. Hopefully not the case at Chandler's Cross ...In the Chandler's Cross photos you can see the green DNO enclosure already in place. No guarantee there's any cable feeding it, but at least a promising sign...
I stopped at Grantham yesterday, half way up the A1. They have 4 stalls (from memory) with CCS conversion. Impressive how quickly Tesla have got on with this rollout.
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Fellsteruk
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Report on another forum of a new one at Reading (16 stalls) at the Hilton near M4 J10.
They do seem to have a surge at this time of year for some reason, but the flood of new construction at the moment is all V2.
They do seem to have a surge at this time of year for some reason, but the flood of new construction at the moment is all V2.
4EVar
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I was at Keele Northbound and Southbound yesterday, both have 2 Superchargers converted to include CCS
Chuq
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Just a reminder, there is a Google Sheet where all this info is being tracked: Tracker CCS on Superchargers
@4EVar I updated it with the info you provided.
@Barry Baird I went to update Keele (listed as Stoke-on-Trent in the spreadsheet), but it said that the Southbound site was already done with 4 out of 4 converted? I updated Northbound in any case.
@4EVar I updated it with the info you provided.
@Barry Baird I went to update Keele (listed as Stoke-on-Trent in the spreadsheet), but it said that the Southbound site was already done with 4 out of 4 converted? I updated Northbound in any case.
I wonder as to the value of that? I'm probably missing something, but it says that 97% of sites have been done (Pat-on-Back Tesla
) ... if Tesla had been tardy in upgrading I would see more benefit in the public list. The ones not yet done don't show on SatNav in M3, so no hindrance to M3 drivers. Number of STALLS may be of interest, but not sure there is much you can do with that information - maybe divert to a site with more stalls, when that is an option?Does the M3 SatNav show "stalls available" appertaining to only the CCS-converted stalls? if so I think that would be the most useful information to me
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