Indeed, that's why I said most of the time, and I gave just one example. There are clearly some specific instances where it's quicker to drive slower in order to avoid a supplementary charge. Actually, it could be interesting to have a web app that computes that. While waiting at the SC, one could enter its destination (or next SC), current SoC and model, and the app would compute the ideal SoC to reach and drive speed, given the temperature, wind, maybe even the forecasted rain at the location. And @WannabeOwner could show that to his wife! Maybe such app already exists, but probably not considering weather forecasts, which have a big effect up here in Canada.
"Most" is a gross exaggeration. If what you stated was the case TMC and Tesla would be inundated with thousands of complaints every single day and it certainly would be a major news story. "Some" would be accurate. That is a reasonable description of the situation.
My wife is on board with me having an electric car, and really pushed me to stay electric when I was deciding on what to get to replace my Leaf, but when I suggested that she use the Leaf over her minivan for the few months left remaining on the lease after my Tesla comes she balked. She doesn't want to deal with worrying about range and won't give up her automatic sliding doors. I think I will be able to get her to upgrade to the new Caravan PHEV which has 30 miles of all electric range and another 500 miles of ICE range at some point. Maybe soon after Tesla will come out with a minivan.
Electric cars aren't for everyone. Her choice. I've never had an issue with a supercharger doing anything other than it should. Hmm..
Totally understand the frustration. But I'm glad that you only mention this happening only at Manteca. You are lucky. I've been having the same issues repeatedly no matter where I charge in California. It's extremely frustrating to switch stalls 3 times at each supercharger and have all of them deliver piss poor charging rates.
I invite you to look at the Knoxville, TN supercharger thread. Tesla even went so far as to list the superhcarger as offline even though it works (even if slower than it should). Maybe it's back listed as normal right now, I'm not sure but it's been temporarily closed more than once in the last few months and every time someone posts that you can still charge there even when it is listed as closed.
Like someone asked above...any ideas what is happening at these? Older circuitry? Poor installation quality? How much leeway does Tesla have in getting these fixed? I assume they have to work with the local utility company who can prioritize the work as they see fit.
Did you not hear? Chevy is only sending Bolts to California and Oregon this year, maybe open up to a few more states next year. It's just going to be a compliance car. Not sure if they'll ever do Virginia.
I would normally agree. But so far every stations and every chargers I have been to never worked as advertised besides the ones I visited outside the states. And if you read my other posted in the CA supercharger problems you can see I have been to many of them and some multiple times at different stalls unsharing with any other teslas. If there was even 1 that worked I would say sure I might have really bad luck but there might be some that worked. My conclusion is few works as advertised.
I don't even know what to say to that, but I'm sure Tesla will be happy to hear she's not going to drive any of their cars again and use the SuperCharger Network.
Just charged at Manteca on Saturday and it was one of the fastest superchargers I have ever used, 360 mph. Go figure.
IIRC the instrument cluster display in system 6.x did in fact clearly show you your expected range .... didn't it?
Thanks for the heads up. I was there yesterday and someone was already in stall 1A while I originally parked in 1B. I noticed that someone was leaving on 2B and I wasn't sure if it was paired with another stall 2A was taken also. I ended up in 2B for about 35 minutes. The person in 1A had some blue color contraption on his driver window blocking the sun while he snoozed. He was still there when I left. What's the protocol for taking the handicap spot?
I had a female passenger who took a fit because I had to charge for a top off for 10 minutes while she was working on her laptop! She thought it was a waste of time and hindered our trip somewhat! Some people you just can't win with!
Considering all of the ills caused by driving an ICE vehicle, with all due respect, I'm sure many would think she should reconsider her position. After almost 5 years of both my wife and I only driving EVs, an inconvenience such as described, is infrequent imo.